Privacy Policy
We will not share information about you (including your email address) with others without your prior consent.By providing The Local with your email address you agree that we may send you a weekly email and occasional 'breaking news' alerts. We will also mail you occasionally with updates about the service and information about your registration.
You will not receive unsolicited mail from third parties.
Otherwise, we will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our readers with our advertisers.
Should we elect to change our privacy policy we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new policy details.
The Local will use all reasonable precautions to ensure only responsible third parties see the information. However we are not responsible for any breach of security or any actions of any third parties who receive the information.
Please note that we reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit The Local. These companies may use information (not including your name or email address) about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
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The Local uses cookies to track users' 'sessions' and to determine whether a user is signed in or not so that relevant information may be delivered. These are not used to identify any individuals and no personal information is stored in relation to the cookies.
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