Our Privacy Policy

The Hawkinge Gazette (Localrags) certifies that all individually identifiable information on the site is kept confidential.

We do not sell or disclose any personal information about our users. Information is not distributed to any third party.

Any personal information collected by the Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News (Localrags) is kept securely.

Personal information, such as name and email, is used primarily to recognise individual readers.

Occasionally the Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News (Localrags) will use individually identifiable information, like email addresses, in order to contact the user for technical support or other site related information .

Readers, who have signed up as members, have the option to unsubscribe to any emails from the Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News (Localrags).

The Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News (Localrags) does not track general information about people visiting our site.

This does not apply to any anonymous searches made on the site, which enables us to include items which are of interest to the readers.

The Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News (Localrags) will not under any circumstances publish letters from anonymous authors. We must have a valid Email address or home address. If the author wishes to withhold their name, the published letter will be signed - name and address supplied. Anyone wishing to know the identity of the author must contact the Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News (Localrags). We will then approach the author to see if they are willing to have their identity disclosed to everyone or to the person requesting the information. Under normal circumstances we would request that we disclose the name of the person requesting the information, to the author.

Correspondence where the Editor considers there to be a contrary view on another individual, group, party or business will only be published if the senders name is used. 

Letters which are considered to be possibly libelous or threatening will not be published under any circumstances.

This site uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer.

Some cookies on this site are essential, and the site won't work as expected without them. These cookies are set when you submit a form, login or interact with the site by doing something that goes beyond clicking on simple links. We also use some non-essential cookies to anonymously track visitors or enhance your experience of the site. If you're not happy with this, we won't set these cookies but some features of the site may be unavailable.

This site uses Google AdSense, a service for including advertisements from Google Inc. ("Google"). Google AdSense uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and allows you to analyze the use of the site. Google AdSense uses so-called web beacons (invisible images). Through this web beacons, information such as the visitor traffic will be evaluated on these pages.

The information generated by cookies and web beacons on this website (including your IP address) and delivery of advertising formats to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there. This information can be passed on from Google to contractors of Google. Google is your IP address but not combined with other data you have stored.

You may refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser, we would point out however, that you can use in this case not all the features of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purpose.

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

The only cookies in use on our site are for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

To control cookies, you can adjust your browser settings.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns with this policy, please send your comments to

editor@localrags.co.uk

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