The Gazette - Official Public Record

toots79xo

Hello everyone! New to the forum!

Myself and my husband were discharged from our bankruptcy in December 2014.

The house that we privately rent has had to go up for sale. Whilst my parents were googling the address to view the pictures, the search results brought up my husbands name, his bankruptcy details, his occupation and his current address!

It didn't take much info to find my details either...

My question is...surely your personal address shouldn't be available to the public...does this stuff stay there for everyone to see til the end of time? TIA

PasturesNew

It's always been like that. Bankrupts get a notice in the Gazette - and they've been in business/doing it since about 1660.

Yes, it's there until the end of time. Digitalised and online forever more.

It's actually how I found out my great-great-great-grandfather's sister's husband had gone bankrupt in about 1861.

toots79xo

Thanks...

i suppose i didn't think our details would come up so easily with such little information put into search bar....glad we are moving house soon.

Johno100

toots79xo wrote: »

My question is...surely your personal address shouldn't be available to the public...does this stuff stay there for everyone to see til the end of time? TIA

Yes, it's one of the small prices to pay for going bankrupt and having most of your debts written. Until a few years ago a notice similar to that that appears in the London Gazette also appeared in your local newspaper and that was when local papers were much more widely bought and read.

fermi

Info on search engines here: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/policies/removing-notices

Excluding personal insolvency notices from search engine results

We maintain personal insolvency notices on The Gazette website as part of a permanent official record. However we instruct search engines to start to exclude personal insolvency notices from their search results after the bankruptcy has been discharged and information about the insolvency is removed from insolvency service registers (in the UK this happens after one year and three months).
Every type of insolvency notice has a different notice code and each notice code is automatically added to The Gazette’s robot.txt file one year and three months after it was placed. The robot.txt file instructs search engines, if they adhere to these rules, to exclude results from their search. The automatic adding of notice codes to The Gazette’s robot.txt file means that the first notice about your personal insolvency will be excluded from search engines one year and three months after it was placed but it will take an additional year before the final notice about your bankruptcy is excluded.