We keep things simple on I Love Newcastle and collect as little as we can. Here is the detail.
Summary: nothing is sold or shared for advertising, and you can ask us about your data at any time.
The site itself only sets cookies for the people who log in to manage it.
The site does not use analytics, advertising trackers, tracking pixels or ad networks. The contact form asks for a name, an email address, a topic and a message. These are used only to reply, are emailed to the site team and kept no longer than needed to deal with the message. To stop spam, the sender's IP address is turned into a one-way code and kept for about an hour to limit how many messages can be sent; the IP address itself is not stored. Messages are passed to an automated service (Grok, run by xAI) to help separate genuine messages from spam.
Some pages show pictures and posts from X (Twitter), and may include content from Facebook, Bluesky or YouTube; those services can see the visitor's IP address and may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies. New articles are shared to the site's own social media pages; no visitor data is passed to them.
Visitors in the UK and EU can ask what personal data is held about them, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted, using the contact page. They can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
Contact
For anything about your personal information, use our contact page.
Last updated 21 October 2026.