Privacy Policy

Effective 8 September 2026

This policy explains how Local Living handles information when you visit localliving.co, contact us, read our stories, or interact with advertising and embedded media.

Information we collect

We may receive information you provide, such as your name, email address, telephone number and message. Our hosting, security and analytics services may automatically receive technical information including your IP address, browser and device type, approximate location, pages viewed, referring page, date and time, and site interactions.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand aggregated traffic and improve the website. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar identifiers to report page views, sessions, approximate geography, device type and referral source. Local Living does not use Analytics reports to identify individual visitors.

Advertising and cookies

We use Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, may place or read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses and similar identifiers as a result of serving ads on this website. Google and its partners may use advertising cookies to serve, limit, personalize and measure advertisements based on visits to this and other websites, subject to your choices and applicable law.

Learn how Google uses information from partner sites. You can control personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings and manage cookies through your browser.

Embedded media

Stories may include YouTube, Instagram or other third-party media. Loading or interacting with it may allow the provider to receive technical information and use cookies under its own privacy policy.

How we use and share information

• To operate, maintain and secure the website.
• To understand engagement and improve our stories.
• To answer enquiries and provide requested services.
• To display and measure advertising.
• To comply with law and prevent misuse.

We share information only with service providers that help operate the site, including Vercel, Supabase and Google, or where legally required. These providers process information under their own terms.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may request access, correction or deletion of personal information, or object to or restrict certain processing. You may withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.

Children and changes

This website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. We may update this policy when our practices or legal obligations change.