Salt Guide is a local guide and newsletter covering Hastings and St Leonards.
This privacy policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, and how we use it.
If you have any questions about your personal information, or want to exercise any of your rights, you can contact us at hello@saltguide.co.uk.
Kat Beveridge, operating Salt Guide, is responsible for the personal information described in this policy.
Contact: hello@saltguide.co.uk
If you sign up for the Salt Guide newsletter, we collect your email address and any name you choose to provide.
We use this information to send you the newsletter and related Salt Guide emails.
Our legal basis is consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails.
If you send us information about an event, venue, business or place through our website, email, Instagram or WhatsApp, we collect the information you choose to provide.
This may include your name and contact details where you provide them, as well as information about the event or business.
We use this information to research, check and maintain listings on Salt Guide and to contact you if we need to clarify something.
Our legal basis is legitimate interests, specifically running and maintaining an accurate local guide.
If you email us or contact us through social media, we may keep the correspondence so that we can respond to you and keep track of the conversation.
Our website is hosted and delivered using Cloudflare. Cloudflare may process technical information such as IP addresses, browser information and information about requests made to our website in order to provide and secure the service.
We do not currently use Google Analytics or other third-party analytics tools to track how you use the website.
Salt Guide includes information about events, venues, businesses and other places in and around Hastings and St Leonards.
We may compile listings from publicly available sources, including business websites, social media, press releases, printed listings and other public information, as well as information sent to us directly.
Where a listing includes personal information about an identifiable individual, such as a performer, organiser or sole trader, we use that information where we have a legitimate interest in providing an accurate and useful local guide.
If you are named in a listing and believe the information is inaccurate or should be removed, please contact us at hello@saltguide.co.uk.
We do not sell your personal information or share it with other organisations for their own marketing.
We use a small number of service providers to help us operate Salt Guide, including:
These providers may process information outside the UK. Where this happens, appropriate safeguards are used where required by data protection law. The providers' own privacy policies also apply to their processing of your information.
We may also disclose personal information where we are legally required to do so.
We keep newsletter subscriber information until you unsubscribe.
We keep submissions and correspondence for as long as reasonably necessary to operate Salt Guide, maintain accurate listings and keep appropriate records. We review information periodically and delete information that we no longer need.
Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:
You can make a request by emailing hello@saltguide.co.uk.
We will normally respond within one month.
If you have concerns about how we have used your personal information, please contact us first at hello@saltguide.co.uk so that we can try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.