ucas.com
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Truth score
Business details
- Registered with
- Charity Commission, charity 1024741Matched on the Charity Commission register
- Memberships
- ABTA Its about pageClaimed by the business, not checked.
- Sells
- Digital services
- Licensed trade
- No licence normally needed
- Domain age
- 29 years
- Email address
- Not found
- Phone number
- +44 371 468 0468
- Contact page
- ucas.com/
contact-us - Website
- ucas.com
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints
No reviews we could readWe looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs
Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.
Summary
Is ucas.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 86 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 public checks clear, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.
We read 5 of its pages: contact, about, returns, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find a customer rating or an email address.
Positives
- We read 5 of its pages · contact, about, returns, terms and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
- It has a review page on Trustpilot.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Not found
- Reviews information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
What they offer
Find and apply for universities, explore apprenticeships and career options. Get trusted advice, compare your choices, and take the next step towards your future.
Latest YouTube video
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How to check if ucas.com is legit
To check if ucas.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about ucas.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsFound: type (wikipedia), employees, revenue
- Where the company is based
- UK
- Why we believe that
- the site's structured data states its country, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode
- VAT number
- Not found
- Type (Wikipedia)
- charitable organization
- Employees
- 492
- Revenue
- 35023142 pound sterling
Official registersRegistered with the Charity Commission as charity 1024741 since 13 August 1993. Matched on its website and its name.
- Charity number
- 1024741
- Registered since
- 13 August 1993
- Latest income
- £58,723,000
- What it does
- UCAS is an independent charity, and remains committed to its vision of being at the heart of connecting people to higher education. We do this by providing information, advice, and admissions services to inspire and facilitate progression in education.
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 29 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 29 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 5 of its pages: contact, about, returns, terms and privacy
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- +44 371 468 0468
- Contact page found
- Yes
- Hosting company
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Ways to contact them
- +44 371 468 0468
- In their own words
- “Gap years can be used to enhance your CV, travel, learn new skills, and much more. Find out more and get some inspiration here. A gap year offers you the opportunity to gain skills and experiences, while giving you time to reflect and focus on what you want to do next.”
Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool
Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.
All allowed
- Google Search
- Allowed by defaultGooglebot
- Bing
- Allowed by defaultBingbot
All allowed
- OpenAI
- Allowed by defaultGPTBot
- Anthropic
- Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
- Google AI
- Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
- Apple AI
- Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
- Common Crawl
- Allowed by defaultCCBot
- Meta
- Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
- ByteDance (TikTok)
- Allowed by defaultBytespider
All allowed
- ChatGPT search
- Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT
- Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
- Claude search
- Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
- Claude
- Allowed by defaultClaude-User
- Perplexity
- Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsIt has a review page on Trustpilot
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | Unknown |
App StoreIts app, SmartLead UCAS, is on Apple's App Store.
- App
- SmartLead UCAS
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 50,000 sites
Share of people looking up ucas.com, by country, over the last 2 days.
- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen
- 1United States35.0%
- 2Singapore20.2%
- 3United Kingdom18.6%
- 4Germany8.2%
- 5Hong Kong3.2%
- 6Canada2.1%
- 7Brazil1.7%
- 8Netherlands1.3%
- 9India1.0%
- 10France1.0%
Top 10 of 37 countries.
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago
- Website archive history
- 27 years
Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 344,824 followers on Facebook
YouTube Data8,073 views a video, 393 views a day and a new video every 20.6 days
- Views per video2,494,435 views ÷ 309 videos
- 8,073
- Views a day2,494,435 views ÷ 6,352 days
- 393
- Views per subscriber2,494,435 views ÷ 18,900 subscribers
- 132
- New subscribers a day18,900 subscribers ÷ 6,352 days
- 3
- Subscribers per 1,000 views18,900 subscribers ÷ 2,494,435 views × 1,000
- 7.6
- Subscribers per video18,900 subscribers ÷ 309 videos
- 61
- Days between videos6,352 days ÷ 309 videos
- 20.6
- Channel age22 June 2009 to 12 November 2026
- 17 years 4 months
- Subscribers
- 18,900
- Views
- 2,494,435
- Videos
- 309
- Started
- 22 June 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- Not stated
- Topics
- Knowledge, Lifestyle, Society
- Made for children
- Not stated
- Website in its description
- Not stated
- Trailer
- Yes
What data this site collects about you
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Uses Cookiebot to ask which cookies you allow.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None found
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- reject
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Certificate type
- DV
- Certificate expires
- 8 Feb 2027
- Nameservers
- ajay.ns.cloudflare.com
faye.ns.cloudflare.com - Address
- 104.18.28.88
104.18.29.88
Proof of ownership
What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.
DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
- What we check
- A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
- When we check
- On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
- Points
- 0 of 3 added
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
- When we check
- When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
- When we check
- On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
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