This privacy policy was last updated on 19th April 2023.

What this website is

This website is a guide to the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea. The website address is www.kensington-chelsea.com.

What personal data is collected via this website and why

Cookies

The Guide to Notting Hill uses cookies to for content and ads personalisation and to analyse traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our advertising and analytics partners, including Google, who may combine it with other information that you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services. You can read how Google uses this information at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device/computer to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third-party website.

Cookies may be set by our advertising partners, who may have built a profile of your interests to show your relevant adverts on the websites that you visit.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website. You may, of course, control your use of cookies on this site via your web browser. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

The most commonly used ad technology partners are:

You can find out more about cookies used on this website and how to control the use of cookies on our Cookie Policy page.

Our website contains adverts and sponsored and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners; Google Adsense, Amazon Affiliates, Booking.com or are self-served through our own means. We only use trusted advertising partners who have high standards of user privacy and security. However, we do not control the actual adverts seen/displayed by the majority of our advertising partners. Our ad partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested as ‘non-personalised’ cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.

Clickable sponsored or affiliate links may be displayed as a website URL e.g. www.booking.com or a titled text link e.g. Accommodation. However, not all links displayed on this website are sponsored or affiliate links.

Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on The Guide to Kensington and Chelsea website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases, we earn a small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.

We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with valued information and the best overall experience.

Learn more about each third-party’s privacy policy and how they used your data:

If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, or sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc, such as Instagram photos). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

The Guide to Kensington and Chelsea uses Google Analytics to collect analytics data. Data associated with cookies, user identifiers, or advertising identifiers is stored by Google Analytics for 26 months, after which time it is deleted. You may wish to learn more about Google’s Privacy & Terms which covers how they use the data obtained from websites such as ours.

Who we share your data with

Aside from any data obtained with our commenting system or our analytics partner mentioned above, we do not share your data with any third party (see below).

Emailing us

We welcome anyone to contact us privately via email if you have any questions (or other general questions) about the area of Kensington and Chelsea. By emailing us, you are giving your consent for us to contact you (i.e. to reply to you!).

We do not use your personal information – name, email address or any other information you provide – for any means other than replying to you. We do not share this information with anyone.