Privacy notice

Controller and contact

The controller for this site is Linda's Lonely Hearts Club, an independent publication at lindaslonelyhearts.club. Privacy and GDPR requests can be sent to privacy@lindaslonelyhearts.club.

Last reviewed: 2026-06-13.

What data is processed

• Technical request data needed to deliver and secure the site, such as IP address, user agent, requested URL, timestamps, and basic server logs processed by the hosting provider.
• Email data if you contact the publication, such as your email address, message contents, and any information you choose to include.
• Public article and source information, which may include names of public officials, companies, institutions, and quoted public statements when editorially relevant.

The site currently has no reader accounts, comments, newsletter signup, paid subscriptions, advertising pixels, or optional analytics service.

Purposes and legal bases

• Site delivery, security, abuse prevention, and debugging: legitimate interests in operating a secure publication.
• Responding to emails, corrections, and privacy requests: legitimate interests and, where applicable, steps requested by you.
• Legal compliance, record keeping, and rights handling: legal obligation or legitimate interests.

Processors and hosting

The site is hosted on Vercel. Hosting providers may process technical request data to deliver pages, maintain security, and operate infrastructure. If additional processors such as analytics, newsletters, payments, or comments are added later, this notice should be updated before those features go live.

Retention

Technical logs are retained only as long as needed by the hosting provider for security, debugging, and operational purposes. Emails are kept for as long as needed to respond, maintain a corrections record, resolve disputes, or meet legal obligations.

Your GDPR rights

Depending on where you live and the circumstances, you may have the right to be informed, access your data, correct inaccurate data, request erasure, restrict processing, object to processing, request portability, and avoid decisions based solely on automated processing.

To exercise rights, email privacy@lindaslonelyhearts.club. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

International transfers

Because the site is hosted using global internet infrastructure, technical data may be processed outside your country. Where GDPR or UK GDPR applies, appropriate transfer safeguards should be used by relevant processors.

Official guidance

This notice was drafted with reference to public guidance from the European Data Protection Board, the European Commission, and the UK Information Commissioner's Office.