Privacy Policy
Perth Life
Last updated: 25 October 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to Perth Life.
Perth Life (“we”, “us” or “our”) is a magazine dedicated to sharing news, stories, features and information relevant to Perth and the surrounding areas. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal information when you visit our website, read our content, contact us, subscribe to our communications or interact with our services.
Our website is referred to as the “Website” throughout this policy.
We handle personal information in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, as applicable.
By using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information, depending on how you interact with Perth Life.
Information you provide to us
This may include:
- Your name and email address when you contact us.
- Information you provide when subscribing to our newsletter or other communications.
- Details and content you submit when suggesting a story, submitting an article, sending a press release or contacting our editorial team.
- Information you provide when entering competitions, promotions or giveaways.
- Your name, contact details and any other information you choose to provide when enquiring about advertising, partnerships or other business opportunities.
Please avoid including sensitive personal information in messages or submissions unless it is necessary for your enquiry.
Information collected automatically
When you visit our Website, we may collect certain technical information, including:
- Your IP address.
- Your browser type and device information.
- The pages and articles you visit.
- The date, time and duration of your visit.
- The website or source that referred you to us.
- Information about how you interact with our Website.
This information may be collected through server logs, cookies and similar technologies, depending on the tools and services used by our Website.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Operate, maintain and improve our Website and magazine.
- Respond to enquiries, messages, story suggestions and submissions.
- Send newsletters and other communications where you have requested them or where we otherwise have a lawful basis to do so.
- Administer competitions, promotions and giveaways.
- Communicate with advertisers, contributors, partners and businesses.
- Understand which articles and features are most popular.
- Monitor Website performance, security and technical issues.
- Meet our legal and regulatory obligations.
We will only process your personal information where we have an appropriate lawful basis to do so, such as your consent, our legitimate interests, the performance of a contract or compliance with a legal obligation.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.
4. Newsletters and Marketing Communications
If you subscribe to receive emails from Perth Life, we may use your email address to send you newsletters, magazine updates, featured stories and other communications you have agreed to receive.
You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails, where available, or by contacting us at perthlifescot@gmail.com.
We will respect your communication preferences and will not send direct marketing communications where your consent is required and has not been given.
We may retain a limited record of your preferences or unsubscribe request to ensure that we respect your choices.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our Website may use cookies and similar technologies to help it function, understand how visitors use the Website and improve your browsing experience.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser.
Depending on the services implemented on our Website, cookies may be used to:
- Ensure the Website operates correctly.
- Remember certain preferences.
- Understand Website traffic and readership.
- Measure the performance of articles and other content.
- Support embedded content or third-party services.
Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies or using similar tracking technologies.
You can manage your cookie preferences through any cookie settings tool available on our Website. You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how parts of the Website function.
Third-party services embedded in or linked from our Website may use their own cookies and tracking technologies. Their use of information is governed by their own privacy policies.
6. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share personal information with trusted third-party service providers where necessary to operate our Website and services. These may include:
- Website hosting and technical support providers.
- Email newsletter and communication platforms.
- Website analytics providers.
- Competition or promotion partners, where relevant and appropriately disclosed.
- Professional advisers or authorities where required by law.
We expect service providers who process personal information on our behalf to handle it securely and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
We may also disclose information where necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect our rights or address security concerns.
Where third-party services process personal information on their own behalf, their own privacy policies may apply.
7. External Links and Embedded Content
Our Website may contain links to external websites, social media platforms and third-party services, including embedded videos, posts or other content.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of websites and services that we do not operate.
We recommend reviewing the relevant privacy policies before providing personal information to third parties or interacting with embedded content.
8. How We Protect Your Information
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no method of transmitting information over the internet or storing data electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security, but we will take appropriate steps to protect the information we hold.
9. How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including meeting legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
For example, we may retain newsletter subscription details while you remain subscribed, retain correspondence for an appropriate period after an enquiry has been resolved, and keep limited records of unsubscribe requests to respect your preferences.
When information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to delete it or anonymise it securely.
10. Your Data Protection Rights
Under applicable UK data protection law, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request erasure of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Restrict processing of your information in certain circumstances.
- Object to certain types of processing, including direct marketing.
- Request data portability where the relevant legal conditions apply.
- Withdraw consent where we rely on consent to process your information.
These rights are subject to certain legal conditions and exceptions.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at perthlifescot@gmail.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.
You also have the right to complain to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe your personal information has been handled unlawfully.
The ICO website is https://ico.org.uk/.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where doing so would be contrary to applicable law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the matter and take appropriate action.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our Website, services, business practices or legal obligations.
Any updates will be published on this page, together with a revised “Last updated” date.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we handle personal information.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we handle personal information or how to exercise your data protection rights, please contact:
Perth Life
Email: perthlifescot@gmail.com
Website: www.perthlifescot.co.uk
Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Perth Life
Last updated: 25 October 2026
1. What Are Cookies?
At Perth Life, we want to make our website easy to use, useful and reliable for everyone who visits us.
Like many websites, our website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve your browsing experience, understand how visitors use our content and help ensure our website operates correctly.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. They can help a website recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit.
Some cookies do not collect information that directly identifies you, while others may collect information that could be linked to you or your device.
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
Depending on the features and services available on our website, Perth Life may use cookies to:
- Keep the website running: Help our website function correctly and securely.
- Remember preferences: Save certain settings to make your browsing experience more convenient.
- Understand our readership: Help us understand which articles, features and pages are most popular.
- Improve performance: Measure website traffic and identify ways to improve the speed, usability and reliability of our website.
- Support third-party features: Enable certain embedded content, social media features or other services where available.
We aim to use cookies responsibly and only for appropriate purposes.
3. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They may support basic features such as security, navigation, session management and the delivery of requested services.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent under UK cookie rules where they are genuinely essential for a service you have requested.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the Perth Life website, including which pages and articles are viewed, how visitors arrive at our website and how they navigate between pages.
We may use analytics services, such as Google Analytics, if these are implemented on our website.
Analytics cookies will only be used where applicable consent requirements have been met.
Third-Party Cookies
Some features on our website may be provided by third parties, such as social media platforms, video hosting services or analytics providers.
These services may use their own cookies or similar technologies. Their use of personal information is governed by their respective privacy policies.
We do not control all cookies placed by third-party services.
4. Cookies Used on Our Website
The cookies used on the Perth Life website may change as we introduce new features or update our services.
The following table describes examples of cookies that may be relevant to our website. These are examples only and are not confirmation that every cookie listed is currently in use.
| Cookie or service | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| Session cookies | Support website functionality during your visit | Until the session ends, or as configured |
Google Analytics cookies, such as _ga | Help distinguish visitors and measure website usage | Depends on the cookie and configuration |
Google Analytics cookies, such as _ga_<container-id> | Help maintain analytics session information | Depends on the cookie and configuration |
| Third-party cookies | Support embedded content or external services | Determined by the relevant provider |
We do not assume that older Google Analytics cookies, including _utma, _utmb, _utmc and _utmz, are used on our website. These names are associated with older versions of Google Analytics and should only be included if they are actually present.
We will update this section as necessary to reflect the cookies and services used on our website.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you visit our website, we will request your consent for non-essential cookies where required by law.
You can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies through the cookie consent options made available on our website.
You can also manage or delete cookies through your internet browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies or receive a notification before a cookie is stored.
Please be aware that blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect certain website functions.
Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn.
6. Google Analytics
If Perth Life uses Google Analytics, this service may collect information about how visitors interact with our website, including pages viewed, approximate location derived from technical information, device and browser details, and how visitors arrive at our website.
We may use this information to understand readership trends, improve our articles and features, and make our website more useful to our audience.
Where required, Google Analytics cookies and associated non-essential tracking technologies will only be activated after you have provided consent.
For more information about how Google handles data, please visit Google’s privacy information:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
If we do not use Google Analytics, this section will not apply.
7. Your Privacy
Information collected through cookies and similar technologies may constitute personal information under applicable data protection law.
For further details about how Perth Life collects, uses, stores and protects personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
We do not sell your personal information.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the cookies we use or applicable legal requirements.
Any changes will be published on this page, together with an updated revision date.
We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on our website, please contact us:
Perth Life
Email: perthlifescot@gmail.com
Website: www.perthlifescot.co.uk