Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 2026
Good Hours respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we may collect when you visit goodhoursmag.com, contact us, submit work or interact with the website, and how that information may be used.
Good Hours is an independent lifestyle and culture magazine covering Living, Beauty, Travel, Wellbeing, Music and Culture.
Information we collect
The information we collect depends on how you use Good Hours.
Information you provide
You may provide personal information when you:
- contact Good Hours
- submit an article, pitch or contributor application
- send a press or PR submission
- enquire about a partnership or commercial opportunity
- leave a comment
- subscribe to communications, where available
This information may include your name, email address, organisation or publication, website or social media details, and anything else you choose to include in your message or submission.
If you submit editorial material, we may also receive biographies, photographs, press materials, article drafts, portfolio links and other information necessary to review or publish the submission.
Please only provide personal information that is relevant to your enquiry or submission.
Website and technical information
When you visit Good Hours, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting infrastructure, security systems or analytics services.
This may include information such as:
- IP address
- browser and device type
- operating system
- referring website
- pages visited
- approximate geographic region
- date and time of visits
- website performance and interaction data
We may use this information to understand how the site is used, maintain its security, diagnose technical problems and improve Good Hours.
We do not use website analytics to identify individual readers unless there is a legitimate operational or security reason to do so.
Comments
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, Good Hours may collect the information entered into the comment form together with technical information such as your IP address and browser user agent.
This information may be used for moderation, security and spam prevention.
An anonymised version of your email address may also be sent to Gravatar to determine whether you use that service. If a Gravatar profile is associated with your email address, your profile image may appear alongside an approved comment.
Editorial, contributor and PR submissions
When you send Good Hours a pitch, article, interview proposal, press release, contributor submission or other editorial material, we use the information you provide to assess the submission and communicate with you about it.
Submitting material does not guarantee publication.
We may retain relevant correspondence and submission records where reasonably necessary for editorial administration, maintaining publication records and managing future communications.
Material that is published may remain part of the Good Hours editorial archive.
Commercial and partnership enquiries
If you contact Good Hours about advertising, sponsorship, partnerships or other commercial work, we may use the information you provide to respond to the enquiry, discuss a potential collaboration and maintain appropriate business records.
Where a commercial relationship is established, certain information may need to be retained for accounting, contractual, tax or other legal purposes.
Cookies
Good Hours may use cookies and similar technologies to make the website function correctly, remember preferences, support security and understand website usage.
Some cookies are essential to the operation of the website. Others may relate to analytics, embedded services or optional functionality.
Where required, non-essential cookies are subject to your consent.
You can find more information about the cookies used by Good Hours and your available choices in our Cookie Policy.
Embedded content and external services
Articles may contain content provided by third-party services, such as videos, music players, social media posts, maps or other embedded media.
Interacting with embedded content may allow the third-party provider to collect information about your visit in accordance with its own privacy policy. This can include cookies or other tracking technologies.
Following a link from Good Hours to another website also means that the privacy practices of that website apply once you leave Good Hours.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services.
Hosting, security and content delivery
Good Hours uses professional web-hosting, content-delivery and security infrastructure to operate and protect the website.
As part of normal website operation, technical information may be processed by these services to deliver pages, prevent malicious traffic, maintain security, improve performance and diagnose technical problems.
Access to administrative systems and personal information is restricted to what is reasonably necessary to operate Good Hours.
How we use information
We may use information collected through Good Hours to:
- operate and maintain the website
- respond to enquiries
- review editorial and contributor submissions
- manage press and PR communications
- moderate comments
- manage partnerships and commercial enquiries
- understand website usage and performance
- improve our content and reader experience
- prevent spam, fraud, abuse and security threats
- maintain appropriate editorial and business records
- comply with legal obligations
We do not sell personal information.
When information may be shared
Personal information may be processed by service providers that help Good Hours operate its website and communications, such as hosting, security, analytics, email or technical service providers.
We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect the security or rights of Good Hours or others, investigate misuse, or establish or defend legal claims.
We do not share personal information with third parties simply so that they can independently market their products or services to Good Hours readers.
How long we keep information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, or where retention is required for legal, accounting, security, editorial or administrative reasons.
Different information may therefore be kept for different periods.
Published editorial material and information forming part of the publication’s editorial record may be retained as part of the Good Hours archive.
Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information. These can include the right to request access to information we hold about you, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion in certain circumstances, restrict or object to certain processing, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions or obligations.
If you would like to make a privacy request, please contact Good Hours using the details below.
International visitors
Good Hours is available internationally. The services used to operate the website may process information in countries other than the country in which you live.
Where applicable, we take reasonable steps to use services and safeguards appropriate to the processing involved.
Children
Good Hours is a general-audience lifestyle and culture publication and is not designed specifically for children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when Good Hours, the website, our services or applicable privacy requirements change.
The date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made.
Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy or requests concerning your personal information, please contact:
Good Hours Magazine
Email: [email protected]
Website: goodhoursmag.com