Privacy notice

What we collect

• Newsletter subscribers. Your email address and the date you confirmed. Nothing else.
• Story tips. Whatever you choose to put in the form. Name, email and phone are all optional.
• Reading preferences. Dark mode, text size and saved articles are stored in your own browser and never sent to us.
• Server logs. Standard web request logs, kept briefly for security and debugging.
• Aggregate readership. We use Google Analytics to see which pages get read and roughly how many people are visiting. It is not tied to your name or email, and we do not build an advertising profile from it. See Processors below for what it can see.

What we do not do

• We do not sell or share your data.
• We do not run advertising trackers or retargeting pixels.
• We do not put tracking pixels in the newsletter.
• We do not require an account to read anything.

Legal basis

Newsletter emails are sent on the basis of your consent, given by confirming a link, and withdrawn the moment you unsubscribe. Tips are processed on the basis of legitimate interest in journalism.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you may ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to editor@barnetpress.co.uk and we will action it within 30 days. Unsubscribing is immediate and needs no request.

Processors

• Email delivery is handled by Resend.
• Articles are produced with language models accessed through OpenRouter. Only public news text is sent to them — never subscriber or tip data.
• Readership is measured with Google Analytics, which sets a cookie in your browser and processes your IP address to estimate your rough location. We do not enable advertising features or Google Signals on this property.