Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4 July 2026

Hartlepool Life Media CIC (“Hartlepool Life”, “we”, “us” or “our”) operates the website www.hartlepoollife.co.uk.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, subscribe to updates, leave comments, submit content, advertise with us or use our online services.

Who we are

Website: www.hartlepoollife.co.uk
Organisation: Hartlepool Life Media CIC
Company number: 15766517
Registered office: Greenbank, Waldon Street, Hartlepool, England, TS24 7QS
Email: [email protected]

Information we collect

We may collect and process the following types of information:

Contact details, such as your name, email address, telephone number or postal address, if you contact us, place an advert, submit a notice, subscribe to updates or make an enquiry.
Information you send to us for editorial, advertising, photographic, classified, announcement or community content purposes.
Newsletter subscription details, such as your email address and consent preferences.
Account or profile information if you register, log in or use member features on our website.
Form submission details when you use contact forms, enquiry forms, advertising forms, polls, quizzes or other interactive features.
Comment information, including the information shown in the comment form, your IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
Technical information, such as IP address, device type, browser type, pages visited, referring website and approximate location.
Cookie and advertising data, where consent has been given or where permitted by law.

How we use your information

We use personal information to:

Operate and improve the Hartlepool Life website.
Respond to enquiries and messages.
Process editorial, advertising, photographic, classified and announcement submissions.
Send newspaper updates or newsletters where you have subscribed.
Manage website accounts, comments, forms, polls, quizzes and other interactive features.
Reduce spam, fraud, abuse and misuse of the website.
Understand how visitors use the website.
Display advertising and help fund the website.
Comply with legal, regulatory and accounting obligations.
Protect our website, users and business.

Newsletter and email updates

If you subscribe to newspaper updates or newsletters, we will use your email address to send you relevant updates. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us.

Forms, submissions and enquiries

When you complete a form on our website, such as a contact form, advertising enquiry, classified submission, announcement form, poll or quiz, we collect the information you provide so we can process your request or manage the feature you have used.

Some forms may be provided by third-party or plugin services. These services may process submitted information on our behalf to help us operate the website.

Advertising, Google AdSense and cookies

We may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to show adverts on our website. These services may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses and similar technologies to help serve, measure and personalise adverts.

Third-party advertising providers, including Google, may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons and similar technologies to collect information as a result of adverts being served on our website.

Google may use advertising cookies to serve adverts based on your previous visits to this and other websites.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies or personalised advertising cookies. You can accept, reject or manage your cookie choices through the cookie banner or cookie settings tool on our website.

Cookies

Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. We may use:

Strictly necessary cookies, which are needed for the website to work.
Preference cookies, which remember choices you make.
Analytics cookies, which help us understand how visitors use the website.
Advertising cookies, which help display, measure and personalise adverts.

You can control cookies through your browser settings and through our cookie consent tool where available.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media and submitted content

If you upload or send images for use on the website, you should avoid sending images with embedded location data unless you are happy for that information to be included. Visitors may be able to download and extract location data from images displayed on websites.

If you submit text, images, notices, announcements, stories or other material for publication, we may process the information you provide for editorial, advertising, archiving and publication purposes.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, social media posts, maps or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

Who we share your information with

We may share personal information with trusted service providers who help us operate the website, provide email updates, process forms, manage advertising, host the website, provide analytics, prevent spam or support our business operations.

We may also share information where required by law, regulation, court order or to protect our legal rights.

We do not sell personal information to advertisers.

How long we keep your information

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected, including legal, accounting, reporting or operational requirements.

Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely so we can recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically.

Newsletter subscription information is kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it.

Information submitted for editorial, advertising, classified or announcement purposes may be retained as part of our publication records and archives.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
Ask us to delete your information.
Object to or restrict certain types of processing.
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Ask for a copy of your information in a portable format.
Complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

To exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected].

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure or alteration. However, no website or internet transmission is completely secure.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of other websites.

*This Site is affiliated with Monumetric (dba for The Blogger Network, LLC) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Monumetric will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Monumetric’s data usage, click here: Publisher Advertising Privacy*

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this page.

Contact us

Hartlepool Life Media CIC
Company number: 15766517
Registered office: Greenbank, Waldon Street, Hartlepool, England, TS24 7QS
Email: [email protected]