Eastbourne Reporter Community Interest Company
Our contact details
- Name: Eastbourne Reporter Community Interest Company
- Address: 18 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4PT
- Phone Number: 07729 804829
- E-mail: news@eastbournereporter.co.uk
- Website: https://eastbournereporter.co.uk/
This policy applies to all information collected or submitted both on this website (https://eastbournereporter.co.uk/), any of our social channels or our newsletter.
The type of personal information we collect
If you’re a visitor to this website we use some anonymous analytics tools to monitor traffic to the website. This tells us which pages are the most useful and help us prove the impact of our work to any partners and supporters. We want to reach as many people as possible, so knowing who is looking at our stuff is really helpful. All of the data collected in this way is completely anonymous – we don’t know your name, email address, or any other identifying details.
We run this site using WordPress, which also comes with a built-in analytics programme called Jetpack, which collects information about how many people looked at posts and from which countries – you can see their privacy policy here.
This data is held securely by WordPress and only accessed by Eastbourne Reporter staff using a secure password.
We currently collect and process the following information:
- Names, email addresses and IP addresses
How we get personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- You have subscribed to receive our latest post
- You have subscribed to our newsletter via Creative Mail
- You have commented on one of our posts
- You have donated to us (thank you very much!) via KoFi
We use the information that you have given us in order to send you the latest posts or newsletters and may occasionally contact you directly if we believe, as journalists, a comment requires further investigation or an interview request. You can say ‘no’ and withdraw your consent to us keeping your details at any time.
We do not share this information unless you request a password reset when relevant, when your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is having your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting news@eastbournereporter.co.uk
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored.
:: The data on website traffic and comments is held securely in WordPress, which can only be accessed by Eastbourne Reporter staff via a secure password.
You are free to unsubscribe at any time, either by using the unsubscribe function at the bottom of every post or newsletter or by contacting us directly.
:: The data from donations we collect to help fund our service is done through Ko-fi (which, in turn, uses Paypal)
All financial data is handled by these partners. Eastbourne Reporter does not see, store or collect any financial information on those who donate to us and this data is handled in accordance with these partners’ privacy policies.
The information Eastbourne Reporter is able to see from these partners is primarily limited to your name, email address, amount of donation, whether it is a one-off or recurring donation, and any message of support you leave us. We do not use any of this data in any way other than to send you a thank you for your contribution.
What about copyright?
Eastbourne Reporter reserves all copyright for any material created and used on this site, unless explicitly stated otherwise. You may not use, copy, or replicate any part of this site without our express permission.
You retain the copyright to any work you submit to the Eastbourne Reporter website, granting us a licence to use it by submitting it.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at news@eastbournereporter.co.uk if you wish to make a request.
Further information and cookie policy from WordPress
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at news@eastbournereporter.co.uk
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
Policy updated: 26 February 2023