The Havering Daily

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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 01/06/2026

The Havering Daily is an independent local news publication covering Havering and surrounding areas.

This Privacy Policy explains how The Havering Daily collects, uses and protects personal information when people visit our website, contact us, submit stories, advertise with us, use our forms, comment on content, interact with our services, or otherwise communicate with us.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, “The Havering Daily”, “we”, “us” and “our” means The Havering Daily.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is handled, please contact us at:

Email: advertise@thehaveringdaily.co.uk
Website: https://thehaveringdaily.co.uk

1. The personal information we collect

We may collect and process personal information in the following ways.

Information you give us directly

This may include:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your phone number
  • Your business or organisation name
  • Your job title or role
  • Your postal address, where relevant
  • Information you provide through contact forms
  • Information you provide when submitting a story, comment, press release, photograph, video, letter, opinion piece or community notice
  • Information you provide when making an advertising enquiry
  • Information you provide when purchasing advertising, sponsorship, subscriptions, memberships, donations or other services
  • Information contained in emails, messages, documents or attachments sent to us

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, we may collect limited technical information, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages viewed
  • Time and date of visit
  • Referring website or link
  • Approximate location based on IP address
  • Cookie and consent preferences
  • Advertising, analytics or performance data, where consent has been given where required

Information from third parties

We may receive information from third parties, including:

  • Public bodies
  • Community organisations
  • Businesses
  • Police, fire, ambulance or other public services
  • Elected representatives
  • Press officers and communications teams
  • Members of the public
  • Social media platforms
  • Advertising, analytics, payment or website service providers

We may also use publicly available information where relevant to journalism, public interest reporting, advertising, business administration or legal compliance.

2. How we use personal information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries
  • Assess, verify and publish news stories
  • Contact people about stories, comments, interviews or submissions
  • Process press releases, opinion pieces, letters and community updates
  • Manage advertising enquiries, bookings and campaigns
  • Provide advertising, sponsorship, promotional or business services
  • Manage subscriptions, donations, payments or supporter relationships
  • Operate, maintain and improve our website
  • Understand how readers use our website
  • Display and measure advertising
  • Protect the security of our website and services
  • Moderate comments, submissions or user-generated content
  • Comply with legal, regulatory and editorial obligations
  • Handle complaints, disputes or legal claims
  • Keep records of consent, preferences and communications

3. Journalism and public interest reporting

The Havering Daily publishes news, features, opinion, community updates and public interest reporting.

Where personal information is used for journalism, we may rely on rights and exemptions that apply to journalistic activity under UK data protection law where appropriate. This may include processing personal information where it is in the public interest to investigate, report, publish or archive news and information.

We take care to consider accuracy, fairness, privacy, public interest and editorial standards before publication.

4. Our lawful bases for using personal information

We only use personal information where we have a lawful basis to do so.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:

Consent

We may rely on consent where you have clearly agreed to a specific use of your information. This may include non-essential cookies, some marketing communications, certain forms, or specific permissions.

You can withdraw consent at any time.

Contract

We may use personal information where necessary to provide a service you have requested, such as advertising, sponsorship, paid promotion, subscriptions, payments or other commercial arrangements.

Legal obligation

We may use personal information where necessary to comply with the law, regulatory requirements, tax records, accounting obligations, court orders or other legal duties.

Legitimate interests

We may use personal information where we have a legitimate interest and where your rights and freedoms do not override that interest.

This may include:

  • Running and improving our website
  • Responding to enquiries
  • Managing business relationships
  • Protecting website security
  • Preventing fraud or misuse
  • Keeping basic business records
  • Measuring general website performance
  • Handling complaints or disputes
  • Promoting our services to business contacts where lawful

Public interest and journalism

Where appropriate, we may process personal information for journalism, publication, archiving, freedom of expression, public interest reporting and related editorial purposes.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on your device. Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags and scripts.

We use:

  • Strictly necessary cookies and storage
  • Cookie consent storage
  • Security and website functionality technologies
  • Analytics cookies, where enabled
  • Advertising cookies and similar technologies, where enabled
  • Embedded content and social media technologies, where used

Non-essential cookies and similar technologies are only used where consent is required and has been given.

We use a cookie consent tool to remember whether you have accepted or rejected non-essential cookies. This may store your consent status, consent version and timestamp in your browser so we can respect your choice and avoid showing the same notice repeatedly.

You can reset your cookie preferences at any time by visiting our Cookie Policy or using the “Reset cookie preferences” option where available.

For more information, please read our Cookie Policy.

6. Advertising and local journalism

The Havering Daily is free to read because advertising and commercial support help fund our local journalism.

We may display advertising on our website. Some advertising may be contextual, meaning it is based on the page or content being viewed. Some advertising or analytics technologies may involve cookies or similar technologies and will only be used where consent is required and has been given.

We may collect aggregated advertising performance data, such as impressions, clicks or page views. Where possible, this is used in a way that does not directly identify individual readers.

7. Repeat-reader and support prompts

We may use tools that show support, donation, subscription or advertising-funded access messages to readers who visit the same article or website repeatedly.

These prompts are intended to help support independent local journalism. They may use cookies or local storage to remember visit counts, prompt dismissals, timestamps or related preferences.

Where such storage is strictly necessary to provide a requested service or remember your preference, it may be used without separate consent. Where it involves non-essential tracking or advertising-related purposes, consent will be requested where required.

8. Story submissions, photographs and videos

If you submit a story, photograph, video, document or information to The Havering Daily, we may use the information to assess, verify, investigate, edit and potentially publish a story.

Please do not send sensitive personal information unless it is relevant and necessary.

If you send us photographs or videos, you confirm that you either own the rights to the material or have permission to share it with us. You also confirm that you understand we may contact you for further details.

We may retain submitted material for editorial, archive, legal or record-keeping purposes.

9. Comments and user-generated content

If comments or user-generated content are enabled, we may collect the information you provide, including your name, email address, IP address and comment content.

We may use this information to moderate comments, prevent abuse, manage spam, respond to complaints and comply with legal obligations.

Comments or user-generated content may be visible publicly if published.

10. Contact forms and enquiries

When you contact us through a form, email, social media message or other communication channel, we use your information to respond to your enquiry and keep appropriate records.

This may include enquiries about stories, advertising, complaints, corrections, events, partnerships or general website matters.

11. Advertising, business and lead enquiries

If you enquire about advertising, sponsorship, business promotion or related services, we may use your information to:

  • Respond to your enquiry
  • Provide prices, proposals or campaign information
  • Manage bookings and invoices
  • Deliver advertising or promotional services
  • Send service-related updates
  • Maintain business records

If we pass a business enquiry or lead to an advertiser, partner or third party, we will only do so where it is appropriate and lawful.

12. Payments, donations and subscriptions

If you make a payment, donation, subscription or purchase, your payment may be processed by a third-party payment provider.

We do not normally receive or store your full payment card details. The payment provider may collect and process your payment information under its own privacy policy.

We may keep records of transactions for accounting, tax, contractual and legal purposes.

13. Email updates and marketing

If we offer newsletters, email updates or marketing messages, we will only send them where we have a lawful basis to do so.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us.

We may still send service-related messages where necessary, such as updates about an advertising booking, payment, account, complaint or enquiry.

14. Embedded content and third-party services

Articles and pages on our website may include embedded content from third-party websites, such as videos, maps, social media posts, forms, adverts or other interactive features.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited that website directly. These third parties may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking and monitor your interaction with their content.

Examples may include:

  • YouTube or video platforms
  • Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn or other social media platforms
  • Google services
  • Advertising networks
  • Payment providers
  • Newsletter providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Form, security or website hosting providers

You should review the privacy policies of those third parties for more information.

15. Who we share information with

We may share personal information with:

  • Website hosting providers
  • IT, security and maintenance providers
  • Email and communication providers
  • Payment processors
  • Advertising and analytics providers
  • Professional advisers, such as accountants or lawyers
  • Regulators, courts, law enforcement or public authorities where required
  • Contributors, freelancers, editors or people assisting with editorial work
  • Advertisers or partners where necessary to deliver a requested service
  • Service providers who help us operate our website and business

We do not sell personal information to advertisers.

16. International transfers

Some third-party service providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom.

Where this happens, we expect appropriate safeguards to be in place, such as adequacy regulations, approved contractual protections or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

17. How long we keep personal information

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information.

Examples:

  • General enquiries may be kept for as long as needed to respond and maintain reasonable records.
  • Advertising and financial records may be kept for accounting and tax purposes.
  • Editorial material may be kept for archive, public interest, legal and journalistic purposes.
  • Complaint records may be kept for editorial, legal and regulatory reasons.
  • Cookie consent records may remain on your device until they expire, are reset, or are deleted by you.

18. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.

However, no website, email system or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should take care when sending sensitive information electronically.

19. Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have rights including:

  • The right to be informed
  • The right of access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to object
  • The right to data portability
  • Rights relating to automated decision-making, where applicable
  • The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

These rights may be subject to legal limits and exemptions, including exemptions relating to journalism, freedom of expression, legal claims and public interest reporting.

To make a request, contact us at:

Email: advertise@thehaveringdaily.co.uk

We may need to verify your identity before responding.

20. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal information, please contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator for data protection.

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)
Fax: 01625 524 510
Email: enquiries@ico.org.uk

21. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

The latest version will be published on this page with an updated “last updated” date.