Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information London Writers collects when you use this website, why, and the choices available to you. It is written for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. Operating this policy alone does not make the site compliant with UK GDPR or the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR); specific compliance depends on which services are actually connected (analytics, advertising, email) and how they are configured, and should be confirmed independently before processing personal data at any scale.

Who we are

London Writers is an independent, UK-focused informational publication about book writing and publishing. Contact details are available on our Contact page.

Information we collect

Information you provide directly

• Contact form: your name, email address, subject and message, used solely to respond to your enquiry.
• Newsletter sign-up: your email address, used to send the updates you have requested, via whichever email service provider is connected to the sign-up form.

Information collected automatically

Like most websites, this site may use cookies and similar technologies, and may use an analytics service (such as Google Analytics) to understand how the site is used in aggregate — pages visited, approximate location at country or city level, device and browser type, and referring site. See our Cookie Policy for the categories of cookies this site can set and how to control them.

Cookies and consent

Strictly necessary cookies may be set automatically, as they are needed for the site to function. Any non-essential cookie — analytics, advertising or similar — is only set after an appropriate consent-management solution has been implemented and, where required, after you have given consent through it. If you visit this site before such a tool is active, no non-essential cookies are knowingly set.

Analytics

Where an analytics service is connected, it is used to understand overall site usage and improve content — not to identify you individually. If a specific analytics provider is in use, its name and a link to its own privacy policy will be listed here.

Advertising

This site is being prepared for Google AdSense. Once an AdSense account is approved and active, Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can review and adjust ad personalisation in your Google account, or opt out of personalised advertising generally via aboutads.info. See our Advertising Policy for more detail.

Third-party services

We may rely on third-party services to operate parts of this site — for example, an email delivery provider for the contact form, an email marketing provider for newsletter sign-ups, or a hosting provider. Each of these may process personal data under its own privacy policy, in addition to this one.

How long we keep information

Contact form submissions are kept only as long as needed to handle the enquiry and any follow-up, then deleted or anonymised. Newsletter email addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove them.

Your rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

• Ask what personal data we hold about you
• Ask us to correct inaccurate data
• Ask us to delete your data
• Withdraw consent (for example, unsubscribing from the newsletter)
• Object to certain processing, such as personalised advertising

To exercise any of these, contact us via the Contact page.

Children

This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our use of cookies, analytics or advertising changes. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.