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Privacy Policy

This page explains how TheLightPress may handle information when you visit, read, interact with or contact the publication.

Last updated: 5 October 2026

TheLightPress respects your privacy. This policy is intended to explain, in clear language, the general ways information may be handled when you use this site.

1. Information we may collect

TheLightPress is primarily a publishing website. You can generally read its content without providing personal information directly to us.

Depending on how you interact with the site, information may be provided voluntarily. For example, if you contact us, you may provide information such as your name, email address and the contents of your message.

The site may also receive limited technical information through hosting, analytics, advertising or other services used on the website. Such information may include device type, browser information, approximate location, referring pages and information about how visitors interact with the site.

2. How information may be used

Information may be used for purposes such as:

  • responding to messages or enquiries;
  • maintaining and improving the website;
  • understanding how visitors use the publication;
  • protecting the site against misuse or abuse;
  • improving the quality and relevance of published content.

We do not intend to collect personal information simply for the purpose of collecting it.

3. Cookies and similar technologies

TheLightPress or services operating on the site may use cookies or similar technologies. Cookies are small pieces of information stored by a website in a visitor's browser.

Cookies may be used to support website functionality, understand visitor activity, remember preferences or provide relevant advertising and measurement services, depending on the services enabled on the site.

You can usually control or remove cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some websites function.

4. Third-party services

TheLightPress may use third-party services to support website functions such as hosting, analytics, advertising, embedded content or communication.

These third parties may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms. TheLightPress does not control the privacy practices of independent third-party services.

Where appropriate, visitors should review the privacy policies of those services to understand how they handle information.

6. Security

Reasonable measures may be taken to protect information handled through the website. However, no method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Visitors should therefore avoid submitting sensitive or confidential information through ordinary website forms unless it is specifically necessary.

7. Children's privacy

TheLightPress is a general-interest publication and is not intentionally designed to collect personal information from children.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the site in a way that should not have occurred, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, services or applicable practices.

When changes are made, the updated version will be published on this page and the date at the beginning of the policy may be changed accordingly.

9. Contact

If you have a question, concern or request relating to this Privacy Policy or the way information is handled on TheLightPress, you can contact us through the website's contact page.

Visit the Contact page →