Virelis ForensicsPrivacy & Terms
How we handle personal data, and the terms on which this website is provided.
Privacy
The short version
This website collects nothing about you. Nothing on this site sends what you type anywhere. There are no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking pixels, no embedded third-party content and no requests to any other company’s servers. Every file that makes up this page is served from this domain. If you never email us, we hold nothing about you beyond the server log described below.
Where a page lets you write something out, what you write stays in your own browser on your own device. If a page offers to save your progress and you choose to switch that on, a draft is kept in your browser’s local storage on that device only. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, and you can delete it at any time.
The one exception: server logs
This site is served by a hosting provider, and like every web server theirs keeps a short technical log of requests, typically the IP address, the time, the page requested and the browser used. We do not use those logs to identify visitors, we do not combine them with anything else, and there is no analytics layer on top of them. They exist because a web server cannot serve a page without receiving a request. We mention it because “we collect nothing” would otherwise be very slightly more than the truth, and this is not a page on which we intend to be slightly more than the truth.
If you email us
The only way this site invites contact is a plain email address. If you write to us, we hold what you choose to send, typically your name, your email address, and whatever you tell us about your matter.
We use it for one purpose: to answer you, and to decide whether your matter is something Virelis can take on. We do not use it for marketing, we do not build a mailing list, and we do not sell, rent or share it.
Please do not send case data, wallet lists, evidence or anything confidential in a first email. Describe the matter in outline. If we go further, we will agree in writing how material should be transferred and how it will be handled.
Lawful basis
Where you contact us about possible work, we process your message on the basis of our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries about our services (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Where we go on to act for you, we process it to perform a contract with you (Article 6(1)(b)).
Where it is held
Correspondence reaches us through our email provider, Proton Mail, which is operated by Proton AG in Switzerland. Beyond that, Virelis stores case files on hardware we control, and the tracing runs on our own scripts, on our own machines, querying the public Stellar ledger.
An AI assistant helps review, check and organise the work, and helps write some of our tools. It reads the part of a file it is working on, on its provider’s systems, which may be outside the United Kingdom. Under the provider’s terms for our account, that material is not used to train AI models and is deleted within 30 days, unless the law or the provider’s safety rules require it to be kept longer. We are moving that reading onto our own machines and will update this page when that is done. If you would like to know how your material is handled before you send it, ask us first.
How long we keep it
Enquiries that do not become work are deleted within twelve months. Where we are instructed, we keep the file for as long as the matter requires and for a reasonable period afterwards, reflecting that our work may need to be relied on or revisited in legal proceedings.
Witness accounts. If you send us a written account, we keep it until the matter is over and then for up to six years in case it is needed in court. You can ask us to delete it at any time and we will. One exception is if, with your agreement, it has already gone to a solicitor or the police. Then we may need to keep our copy while that case is open, and we will tell you. We may also have to keep it if the law requires us to.
Your rights
You have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive a copy in a portable form. These rights are qualified rather than absolute. For example, material forming part of evidence in live or contemplated legal proceedings may need to be retained.
To exercise any of them, email hellovirelis@pm.me. We will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk. We would rather you raised it with us first.
Terms
About this website
This site describes services offered by Virelis Forensics. It is published for information. Nothing on it is advice (legal, financial, investment or otherwise), and nothing on it should be relied on in making a decision about any specific matter.
Contacting us does not create an engagement
An email, an enquiry or a conversation does not create a client relationship and does not place us under any obligation to act. Work is taken case by case, and only once scope, terms and fees have been agreed in writing. Until then, please do not treat anything we say as a commitment, and do not send material you would not want an uninstructed third party to hold.
Illustrations
The figures, addresses and reconciliation shown on the home page are illustrative and synthetic. They are labelled as such on the page. They do not describe any real account, any real transaction or any real client matter, and the addresses shown are deliberately not valid.
Our material
The content, design, wording and marks on this site belong to Virelis Forensics. You may read it, quote it fairly with attribution, and share the link. Please do not reproduce it as your own or use our name or crest to suggest an association that does not exist.
Availability and liability
We take care to keep this site accurate and available, but we do not guarantee either. To the extent permitted by law we are not liable for loss arising from use of, or reliance on, this website. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Governing law
These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.
Changes. If we change this page we will update the date at the top. Where a change is significant, we will say what changed rather than quietly replace the text. That is the same standard we apply to our own findings.
15 September 2026. This page used to say we do not upload client material to general-purpose cloud services, and our home page said case data never leaves the machine. That was not accurate: an AI assistant that helps with the work reads parts of files on its provider’s systems. We replaced both statements with what is true today, and said plainly that the tracing itself runs on our own scripts.
14 September 2026. We added how long we keep witness accounts, and the one case where we may not be able to delete one straight away.
11 September 2026. This page used to say there were no forms on this site. We removed that line, because a page may now let you write something out. We added the paragraph explaining that what you write stays in your own browser, and that saving a draft is off unless you switch it on.