Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 August 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how OneGeneration News | OGM (“OGM”, “we”, “us” or “our”) handles personal information when you visit onegenerationnews.com, read our reporting, use a site feature, or contact us. It is written for a UK-first news and public-information website.

Who this policy covers

This policy covers the OneGeneration News | OGM website and its public pages, including articles, video-related pages, contact routes and privacy controls. It does not cover third-party websites, platforms or services that may be linked from our pages. Their privacy information applies when you use those services.

Information you choose to provide

When you use the OGM contact form or otherwise contact us, you may choose to provide information such as your name, email address, subject line and message. We use that information to read, respond to and manage the enquiry, including factual corrections, source notes or other editorial correspondence. Please avoid sending sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your enquiry.

Information collected through website use

Like many websites, our hosting, security and site-management systems may process technical information generated when a browser connects to the site. This can include an IP address, browser or device information, pages requested, referring pages, approximate timing and technical logs used to operate, secure and troubleshoot the website.

We may also use website measurement tools and cookie-preference tools as configured on the site. These help us understand whether pages are working and how visitors use content in aggregate. The exact information involved depends on the settings of the relevant tool and on the choices available through the site’s cookie controls.

Why we use personal information

We use personal information only for purposes connected with running the website and handling communications. Those purposes can include responding to a message, investigating a correction request, protecting the site from misuse, maintaining security, understanding aggregate site performance and meeting legal or regulatory obligations where they apply.

Where UK data-protection law requires a lawful basis, the appropriate basis depends on the activity. It may include our legitimate interests in operating a secure public-information service, taking steps connected with a request you make, complying with a legal obligation, or consent where consent is required. We do not use this policy to obtain consent; cookie choices are handled through the site’s cookie controls where those controls apply.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files that can be stored on a device when a website is used. They can support functions such as remembering preferences, keeping a site working and measuring visits. Our site may use strictly necessary technologies for operation and may use optional measurement or preference technologies depending on its current configuration.

You can use the cookie controls presented on the site where available. You can also manage cookies through browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies can affect some website features. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office explains that organisations need to provide clear information about cookies and an appropriate means of consent for cookies that are not strictly necessary.[1]

Service providers and sharing

We may use service providers that support website hosting, WordPress site management, security, performance, form handling, media delivery, measurement or cookie-preference management. Those providers process information only as needed to provide their service to us or as otherwise required by law. We do not sell personal information.

We may also disclose information where this is reasonably necessary to protect the site, address security or misuse, respond to a valid legal process, or protect the rights, safety or property of OGM, users or others.

Retention

We aim to keep personal information only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, including handling an enquiry, maintaining security records or meeting a legal obligation. The relevant period can vary with the type of information and the context. We securely delete or anonymise information when it is no longer needed, subject to lawful retention requirements.

Your choices and information rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights to ask for access to personal information, correction of inaccurate information, deletion, restriction, objection to certain processing, data portability, or withdrawal of consent where consent is the relevant basis. To make a request or raise a question, use our Contact page and state that your message concerns privacy.

You may also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO’s privacy-notice guidance explains that people should be told about the information handled, its purposes, relevant rights and how to raise concerns.[2]

Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect the website and information handled through it. No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, so please do not send highly sensitive information through a general website contact form unless it is necessary and you understand the associated risk.

Children and public content

OGM publishes news, public-information and video-related content for a general audience. We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through editorial pages. If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the site, contact us so that we can review the request.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the site’s practices, features or applicable requirements change. We will publish the revised version on this page and update the date above. Material changes to tracking, forms, analytics, advertising, newsletter activity or international data transfers should be reviewed against the site’s actual configuration before they are introduced.

Contact

For privacy questions, correction requests or a request about personal information, please use the OGM Contact page. This policy is a working website draft and should be reviewed against the final hosting, analytics, cookie, advertising, form and data-retention arrangements before it is relied on as a complete compliance record.

Official guidance

[1] Information Commissioner’s Office: Cookies
[2] Information Commissioner’s Office: How to write a privacy notice and what goes in it