**Content Not Eligible for Removal from Search Results**

We are unable to accept instructions for the removal of the following types of content:

– **Legitimate Personal Opinions or Criticism of a Business:** Genuine personal opinions or referenced criticism about a business cannot be removed.

– **Opinions on Current Business Methods:** Opinions on an individual’s current business practices, published within the last five years, where the individual is still active in the same or a similar industry, are not eligible for removal.

– **Companies House Records:** Generally, Companies House records cannot be removed unless there is a Person at Risk of Violence (PARV) order, Threat to Life Notice (formerly Osman warning), or a similar official order. However, content from most sites that source and republish data from Companies House can be removed.

– **Public Figures:** Content related to individuals who have run for political office, been involved in politics or lobbying, served as religious leaders or journalists, or otherwise relinquished their privacy rights by entering the public eye within the last ten years cannot be removed.

– **Official Employment Tribunal Decisions:** Officially published employment tribunal decisions are not removable, despite the disparity and disproportionate impact of their permanent online publication. We have two outstanding Freedom of Information requests regarding these decisions (FOI 1 and FOI 2). Other related content, such as news reports or discussion blogs, can usually be removed from search results.

– **Undecided or Outstanding Legal Matters:** This includes reporting on legal disputes prior to resolution, ongoing civil proceedings, convicted persons awaiting sentencing, and alleged perpetrators awaiting trial. For example, publicity around alleged crimes, including “predator hunter” videos featuring an arrest, cannot be removed prior to conviction or acquittal.

– **Current Director Disqualifications or Bankruptcy Restriction Orders:** These cannot be removed if they are still current and unexpired.

– **Unexpired Ancillary Court Orders:** Any person currently bound by an unexpired ancillary court order, such as Restraining Orders, FRO, SCPO, SHPO, SOPO, or Criminal Behaviour Orders, cannot have related content removed.

– **Serious Offences:** Prison sentences of more than four years for serious violent, sexual, or terrorism offences (Schedule 18) are not eligible for removal.

– **Other Crimes:** Prison sentences of more than four years for any other crimes, if less than ten years ago, unless the sentence was reduced or the conviction overturned on appeal, cannot be removed.

– **Terrorism-Related Convictions:** Convictions for terrorism-related offences, regardless of the sentence length, are not removable.

– **Physical Sexual Crimes:** Convictions for in-person sexual crimes, regardless of the sentence length, cannot be removed.

– **Crimes Against Children:** Convictions for in-person crimes against children of any kind, regardless of the sentence length, are not eligible for removal.

– **Dark Web Content:** We do not access the Dark Web under any circumstances and do not recommend anyone else attempt to do so. Content on the Dark Web is not removable.