Cookie & Privacy Policy
Last updated: 30 August 2026
Stockbridge Local respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This policy explains how we use cookies and how we collect, use and protect personal information when you use our website or interact with Stockbridge Local.
Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function, remember preferences and provide information about how visitors use a site.
Some cookies are necessary for a website to function, while others are optional and may require your consent.
How we use cookies
Stockbridge Local may use cookies and similar technologies to:
operate and secure our website;
remember visitor preferences;
understand how people find and use our website;
measure website traffic and performance;
identify which pages, offers and content are most useful or popular;
improve our website and user experience; and
support third-party or embedded services where these are used.
Types of cookies we may use
Essential cookies
These are necessary for the website to operate properly and provide core functionality. They generally cannot be switched off through our cookie consent controls.
Analytics and performance cookies
These help us understand how visitors use the website so that we can monitor and improve our content, performance and services. Where required, these cookies will only be used with your consent.
Functional cookies
These may remember choices or preferences and provide enhanced website functionality. Disabling them may affect some features of the website.
Marketing and third-party cookies
Third-party or embedded services may use cookies or similar technologies. Where these are not strictly necessary, they will be subject to consent where required.
Squarespace
The Stockbridge Local website is built using Squarespace, which may use cookies necessary to provide and secure the website and additional cookies relating to website functionality, analytics and visitor preferences.
The cookies used may vary depending on the features enabled on our website.
Managing your cookies
Where applicable, you can manage your cookie preferences through the controls provided on our website. You can also view, block or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Blocking certain cookies may affect how parts of the Stockbridge Local website work.
Privacy Policy
Who we are
Stockbridge Local is an Edinburgh-based local platform connecting people with independent businesses, offers, events, competitions, news and things to do in Stockbridge and the surrounding area.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, Stockbridge Local is responsible for the personal information it collects and processes.
Information we collect
Depending on how you interact with Stockbridge Local, we may collect:
your name and email address;
your general location or area, where you choose to provide it;
information submitted through website forms;
newsletter subscription and marketing preferences;
competition and promotion entries;
where requested as part of a competition, the name and/or email address of a person you would like to share a prize with;
enquiries and correspondence;
information provided by businesses and partners; and
technical information about your use of our website, such as your browser, device and website activity.
We aim to collect only information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
How we use your information
We may use personal information to:
operate, secure and improve Stockbridge Local and our website;
provide information about local businesses, offers, events and news;
send marketing communications where you have opted in;
administer competitions, promotions and offers and contact winners;
respond to enquiries;
manage relationships with businesses and partners;
understand website usage and improve our content and services; and
meet our legal and regulatory obligations.
Our lawful basis for processing your information
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Consent – where you have actively agreed to receive marketing communications or another use of your information.
Legitimate interests – where processing is reasonably necessary to operate, improve or promote Stockbridge Local and those interests do not override your rights.
Contract – where processing is necessary to provide a service or fulfil an agreement.
Legal obligation – where processing is required by law.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.
Email newsletters and marketing
If you opt in to the Stockbridge Local e-newsletter, we may send you local news, offers, events, competitions and other Stockbridge Local updates.
You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails.
We may use third-party email marketing services to manage subscriptions and distribute our communications on our behalf.
Competitions and promotions
When you enter a Stockbridge Local competition, we may collect your name, email address and other information required to administer your entry and contact winners.
Competition forms may ask whether you would like to receive the Stockbridge Local e-newsletter. You may be required to select Yes or No so that your preference is clearly recorded. If you select Yes, your email address may be added to our mailing list. If you select No, it will not be added on the basis of that competition entry.
For some competitions, we may ask for the name and/or email address of the person you would like to share the prize with. Their information will be used for purposes connected with the competition and will not be added to our marketing database unless that person separately consents to receive marketing from Stockbridge Local.
Where a competition is run with another business, we will make clear where information needs to be shared with that business.
Offers
Stockbridge Local may publish promotional offers and discount codes from participating businesses.
We may collect information about visits to offer pages and website interactions to understand which offers and content interest our audience.
If you purchase from or contact a participating business, that business is responsible for personal information you provide directly to it.
Businesses and partners
If you represent a business that works with, advertises with or contacts Stockbridge Local, we may process your business contact details, correspondence, content and other information necessary to manage our relationship and provide our services.
Sharing your information
Stockbridge Local does not sell your personal information.
We may share information where necessary with trusted providers that support our website, email marketing, analytics, online forms, payments, administration and other technology services.
We may also disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.
International data transfers
Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where personal information is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by UK data protection law.
How long we keep your information
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and to meet applicable legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
If you unsubscribe from marketing communications, we may retain limited information necessary to record and respect your preference.
Your data protection rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:
access personal information we hold about you;
correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
request deletion of your information in certain circumstances;
restrict or object to certain processing;
request the transfer of certain information;
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
complain about how your information has been handled.
You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection.
Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.
Third-party websites
Our website may contain links to independent businesses and other third-party websites. Stockbridge Local is not responsible for their privacy practices, security or content.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Cookie & Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our website, services, technology or legal requirements. The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.
Contact
If you have any questions about this policy, your personal information or your data protection rights, please contact Stockbridge Local using the contact details provided on our website.
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