Effective Date: 10th June 2025
Website: http://www.ure-life.com | Magazine: Ure Life
Ure Life is a local community site for Boroughbridge, Ripon, and the surrounding area.
At Ure Life, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data responsibly and in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
This privacy policy describes how we, Ure Life, collect and use personal information about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Ure Life is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, our social channels, or our magazine, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Ure Life may from time to time update this Privacy Notice. Where we deem it appropriate, we will seek to notify you about any material changes, however, we recommend you review this page periodically.
This policy applies to:
- All Users and Visitors
- All Registered Users and Subscribers
- All Advertisers and Partners
- Prospective Clients (individuals who are considering or who have made enquiries with us regarding possible goods or services but have not subsequently become clients of the business yet)
- All Third Parties and Suppliers with whom we have dealings in the ordinary course of our business.
Any reference to ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’, ‘the company’ shall mean Ure Life.
Any reference to ‘you’ or ‘Data Subject’ shall mean any individual for whom we hold personal data.
This Privacy Policy does not include information relating to the retention of data on limited companies as such data is not incorporated within the provisions of GDPR.
What Information We Collect
We may collect the following personal information:
- Personal contact details including your name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses.
- Information related to your business, event, or offering such as website information, email addresses, contact numbers, contact names, locations, timings, and addresses
- Your mailing address if opting out of magazine delivery
- Information submitted in listings, contact forms, or competition entries
- IP address, browser type, and usage data via cookies (see our Cookie Policy)
- Information submitted to register or subscribe such as preferences and interests
Ure Life do not normally collect, store and use any data which is defined under GDPR as “special categories” of more sensitive personal information.
How We Use Your Information
Information that we collect is mostly used to understand your needs and to provide a more relevant service. We also use your information to:
- Display your submitted listings on the website
- Contact you about your listing or general enquiries
- Improve our website and services
- Comply with legal obligations
- Inform you of local events, news, and businesses (if you opt in)
- Inform you of Ure Life updates, news, promotions, opportunities, and services
- Carry out marketing purposes, if you opt in, such as recommending other products or services which we offer which may be of interest to you
- Carry out internal record keeping.
- Administer any advertising agreement that we have entered into
- For business management and planning including accounting and auditing.
- Improve our products and services.
- Gather market research on our services and offering so that we may adjust and/or customise our services and offeringd out.
Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.
In the event of a sale, merge, expansion or reorganise of the business, we may exchange your personal information if all, or substantially all, our assets are to be acquired, transferred, reorganised, or merged with or to new entities or third parties through which our business will be carried out.
Why We Have Your Information
We process personal data to provide useful information to local residents within North Yorkshire, to fulfil any contractual obligations to you and our customers, and to otherwise improve and market our solutions. We may have collected your information because:
- You have registered with us as a user, listing owner, subscriber, or advertiser
- You have visited one of our website
- You are a postal address in receipt of our magazine
- You follow any of our social channels
We will only ever process your personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so. We have expanded upon the reasons for us processing your personal data below.
1. You Have Registered With Us
Where you have registered with us a user, listing owner, subscriber, or advertiser to our website or magazine, we will collect the following information:
Type of data
User or Subscriber: Full name (required), Email Address (required), Telephone Number (optional), Address (optional), Opt In Preference
Advertiser or Subscriber: Full name, Email Address, Telephone Number, Address, Listing Information, Business or Event Name, Business or Event Location, Business or Event Contact Details, Operating Hours or Timings for the Business or Event, Payment Details (if applicable) including card or bank details, Invoicing Details, Opt in Preference
2. You Have Visited the Ure Life Website
When you visit the Ure Life website, we may collect the following information:
Type of data
IP address, Consent, Web browser type and version, Device type, Location, Operating System, URLs of referring site, activity while on our Site, and the site exited to
We use cookies and similar technologies to collect this information. This is to optimise your experience of our website. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information, including on how you can withdraw your consent.
3. You Are a Postal Address in Receipt of Ure Life Magazine
If you are within the postcode distribution area of our magazine, we may collect the following information:
Type of data
Whether it has been delivered and/or collected, whether you have chosen to opt out of delivery, whether you provide any feedback regarding delivery or collection
4. You Follow Any of Our Social Channels
Type of data
From our social channels, we can see any account details made public by you, the follower, including but not limited to full names and profile photos.
We can see how you interact with our posts and receive notifications about comments, likes, shares, messages, and saves.
Consent
We share this information as necessary with local users and subscribers of the website or magazine.
You may delete your account, subscription, or listing with us at any time by contacting hello@ure-life.com.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting hello@ure-life.com.
Your information will be deleted in accordance with our retention schedule.
Data Sharing
We do not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your written permission or are required by law to do so.
We may share data with service providers, including but not limited to:
- WordPress, which hosts our website
- any WordPress plug-ins needed for our business
- our server
- an accounting system for book keeping
- a CRM system for managing clients and prospecting clients
- Mailchimp, which is an Email Marketing application for sending out emails and newsletters
- Google Docs
- GDrive
- Dropbox
- WeTransfer
- Microsoft Office 365
We reserve the right to change any of the above providers of third party services at any time and without notice to you.
We will share your data if it is required by regulators, law enforcement bodies, government agencies, courts, or other third parties where we think it’s necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations or legal processes, or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights.
We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting, if you have opted in for us to do so.
Data Protection Principles
We will comply with data protection laws including GDPR. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
- Collected only for valid purposes that we have explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
- Accurate and kept up to date.
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
- Kept securely.
If you have any queries or concerns, please email hello@ure-life.com.
Data Retention
We keep your data only as long as necessary for the purposes collected or as required by law.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
For clients, advertisers, partners, or anyone who has purchased or signed up for a service or product with us, we will keep data for a period of seven years after the completion of the product or service. This is so that we may comply with the Limitation Act 1980 in the event of any possible legal proceedings due to breach of conrract or negligence.
Data Processing
Ure Life uses Google Analytics to process our online data and user information. You can read Google’s data processing and compliance here: Google Business & Data policy In addition, Ure Life uses Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to track website visitor infomation from the magazine (online and print versions) and other print media such as advertisements.
Ure Life also uses companies like META and Hootsuite for analysing data on social channels.
Automated Processing
We use the following automated processes for carrying out certain kinds of profiling. If at any point you wish to query any action that we take based on this or to request ‘human intervention’ (i.e. have someone review the action themselves, rather than relying only on the automated method), you have the right to do so.
The following automated profiling may take place:
- Recognizing an upcoming birthday and highlighting it
- Using category, location, age, family status and other information to enable filtering of information.
Marketing
In addition to sending you service messages from time to time, we may also use your email address for marketing, either our own or our customer’s services to you.
You may opt out of marketing communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in our emails. You may also opt out via email message to hello@ure-life.com.
Linking to Other Websites
Ure Life may include links to external websites that may be of interest. However, once you leave our site via these links, please be aware that we have no control over the content or practices of those external sites. As such, we cannot be held responsible for the protection or privacy of any information you provide while visiting them. These sites are not covered by our privacy policy, so we recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any external websites you visit.
These links may include code within them that lets the third party websites which you have linked to, information about where you have visited from.
Security
At Ure Life, we are dedicated to protecting your personal information and ensuring it is used securely. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative measures to safeguard the data we collect online. For more information, visit our Security section within our Terms and Conditions.
Your Rights
You can restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Choose to keep the opt-in box blank. This indicates to us that you opt out of our marketing and that you do not want to be contacted. You will find these boxes on all website contact forms.
- You can remove yourself from our marketing at any time by emailing us at hello@ure-life.com or by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of all email marketing.
- Remove yourself from any print mailing, by emailing hello@ure-life.com.
In addition, you have the right to:
- Access the data we hold about you
- Request correction or deletion of your data
- Object to processing
- Ask for amendments to the listing data we hold about you, your company, your services or products, or your event
- Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Regardless of your geographical location, we will process your personal data in accordance with the rights stated below:
- Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
- Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
- Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
- Rights in relation to automated decision making.
To exercise any of these rights or to withdraw your consent, please contact hello@ure-life.com.
If you feel we have not processed your data in accordance with the principles and rights we describe in this Privacy Policy, please contact hello@ure-life.com so we can attempt to rectify the situation via our complaints procedure. You may raise a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (or other relevant supervisory authority) but we would appreciate the opportunity to resolve any issues first.
Contact Us
To make a data request, complaint, or to ask a question, contact:
Email: hello@ure-life.com
Address: Northern Lights, Skelton Road, Boroughbridge. YO51 9BZ.
If you contact us, we will look into any matters and inform you of how it will be handled.
You also have the right to complain to the ICO if you have a coplaint regarding the handling of your data.