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Our mission is to provide easy access to a comprehensive range of regularly updated local news and blog sites focused around specific geographical areas in a simple and easy to scan format: to profile a diverse range of local independent voices and help them gain a wider audience by directing web traffic to them and so facilitate debate around local issues and strengthen local online communities.
What we do We maintain lists of third party websites which we preselect for their value and relevance to our audience in each geographical area. When new content is published on these sites it may get aggregated depending upon its relevance determined by the rules set in our automated filtration systems.
Dispassionate We aim to be politically neutral and provide links to a range of news and opinion websites whose views may not reflect our own. We are not responsible for the unedited extracts of displayed aggregated content, or for you choosing to follow the hyperlinks we provide or for the complete content on the source sites.
Fairness We aim to take an ethical and transparent approach to aggregation by selecting only a small extract of unedited content to indicate what a story is about, then provide a direct deep and specific hyperlink off to the source website which we aim to credit in full. We do not claim copyright of aggregated content. We do not accept payment for aggregated links but we do accept payment for advertising.
Privacy We do not collect information which can identify the individual personal details of users accessing our sites, or identify the personal details of individual bloggers aggregated on our sites, beyond what either choose to make public or actively give us.
Your involvement as both readers and producers is important to us and we welcome your views. The development of this free aggregation service is largely dependent upon you telling us about new websites or blogs. If you find your views are not being represented and you have something to say about your neighbourhood, then get blogging or send us a link to a local blog’s RSS feed.
Your responsibilities
External source websites are responsible for publishing accurate and non-libelous information, for respecting copyright and other laws governing the publishing of content under the law of England and Wales, European and international law. The use of offensive language, other unlawful activities, such as inciting or encouraging criminal activity or the repeated abuse of the above, including the manipulation of keywords and publishing dates to maintain high ranking on our website pages will result in the removal of the external source website from our aggregation list.
We reserve the right and are not obliged to give specific reasons as to why a website or blog request for inclusion may be declined or subsequently withdrawn.
Third parties
We may run advertisements and promotions from third parties. Your business dealings or correspondence with, or participation in promotions of, such third parties, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings or promotions, are solely between you and such third party. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or promotions.
We reserve the right to change or modify any of the terms at any time at our sole discretion.
These terms should be read alongside our style tips for aggregated sites here, where publishes can learn more if they have a website or blog they would like to be considered for inclusion or exclusion on our aggregation list.