Copyright Policy

Effective date: 1 June 2026

Ownership

All articles, headlines, wording, original reporting, and site design published on Six Towns Daily are the copyright of Six Towns Daily unless otherwise stated. Our work is independently researched and written.

Sharing our content

You are welcome to link to our stories and share them on social media. In fact, we encourage it. Sharing helps local news reach the people who need it.

However, republishing, copying, rewording, or reproducing our articles (in whole or in part) without written permission is not permitted. This applies to other publications, news outlets, aggregators, and commercial organisations.

Quoting and syndication

If you'd like to quote from one of our articles, please keep it brief (a sentence or two) and always include a clear link back to the original story on sixtownsdaily.co.uk. Full syndication or reproduction requires written permission from us beforehand.

If you'd like to syndicate our work or discuss a content partnership, get in touch and we'll usually be happy to help. We just ask for clear attribution and a link back.

Images and photography

Images published on Six Towns Daily may be owned by us, contributed by community members, or sourced from free-to-use image libraries. Unless otherwise credited, images are the property of Six Towns Daily or used with permission.

You may not download, reproduce, or use our images without permission. If you believe an image has been used incorrectly or without proper rights, please contact us and we'll address it immediately.

User-submitted content

When you submit a photo, story, or other content to Six Towns Daily, you retain ownership of that content but grant us a non-exclusive licence to publish, edit, and display it on our site and social media channels. You confirm that you have the right to share anything you submit and that it does not infringe on anyone else's copyright.

AI and automated reproduction

The use of our content to train, fine-tune, or otherwise feed into artificial intelligence models, language models, or automated content systems is strictly prohibited without explicit written permission. This includes scraping our site for machine learning datasets.

Reporting copyright concerns

If you believe your copyrighted work has been used on Six Towns Daily without proper authorisation, or if you've seen our content reproduced elsewhere without permission, please contact us via our Facebook page. We take copyright seriously and will respond promptly.