Privacy Policy

Last updated: 31 July 2026

1. Who we are

The Newshound (“we”, “us”, “our”) is a UK news-aggregation service operated by Sesha Systems UK Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales (company number 15818753), correspondence address 45 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BG. Sesha Systems UK Ltd is the data controller responsible for your personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

We aggregate and summarise publicly available news headlines from third-party publishers and link readers to the original articles. Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to contactus@thenewshound.com.

2. What we collect

We operate our own first-party analytics to understand how the site is used. We do not use Google Analytics, advertising networks, or third-party tracking or profiling services, and we do not sell or share your personal data.

Public story pages use privacy-first, cookie-free analytics. We do not set any cookie or store anything on your device, and we do not build a profile of you or track you across sites or over time. For each page view we record only:

• An anonymised IP address — the final part of your IP is removed before it is stored (IPv4 truncated to /24), so it indicates only a broad region and cannot identify you individually. We never store your full IP.
• The page visited, the site you arrived from, and your broad device/browser type — used only to produce aggregate visitor counts and to see which stories readers reach.

Because this involves no cookies or device storage and no identification of individuals, no cookie consent is required for these pages.

The members’ feed (the area behind the access code) additionally keeps a short-lived random session identifier in your browser’s local storage to count a visit as one session, and remembers your access-code label so you stay signed in. This area is used by our editorial team, not the general public.

3. Lawful basis

We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interests (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) — operating, securing and improving the service and understanding our audience — balanced against your rights. The processing is limited to anonymised, aggregate statistics with no profiling and no third-party sharing, so we consider the impact on your privacy to be low.

4. Cookies & local storage

Public story pages set no cookies and use no device storage. On the members’ feed only, we use:

• Strictly necessary (no consent required): the access-gate cookies (nh_access, nh_user) that remember you entered a valid access code. They last 30 days and are not used for tracking.
• A session identifier in local storage, used only to count a session; it holds no personal information and expires after 30 minutes of inactivity. Clearing your browser storage removes it.

5. How long we keep it

Anonymised analytics events are retained for up to 26 months to allow year-on-year comparison, after which they are deleted or fully aggregated. Access-gate cookies expire after 30 days.

6. Who processes it for us

Our website and analytics are hosted by Netlify and Railway (infrastructure providers acting as our data processors), and images are stored with Google Firebase. These providers process data on our instructions under data-processing agreements. Some may store data outside the UK; where they do, appropriate safeguards (such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum) apply.

7. Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, or erase your personal data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to data portability. Because we anonymise IPs and hold no account or contact details for ordinary readers, we usually cannot link stored analytics data to a specific individual — but if you believe we hold data about you, contact contactus@thenewshound.com and we will help. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator, at ico.org.uk.

8. Children

The service is intended for adults and general news readers and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

9. Changes

We may update this policy; the “last updated” date shows when. Material changes will be highlighted on the site.