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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libelous or threatening will not be published under any circumstances.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