Please Read the Alverdiscott & Huntshaw Parish Council Website Privacy Information
This privacy policy sets out how Alverdiscott and Huntshaw Parish Council uses and protects any information that you give Alverdiscott and Huntshaw Parish Council when you use this website.
Alverdiscott and Huntshaw Parish Council is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Alverdiscott and Huntshaw Parish Council may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated January 2020.
What we collect
We may collect some or all of the following information through our online forms:
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name and job title
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contact information including email address
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demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
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other information relevant to customer surveys and/or consultations
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
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Improve performance and accessibility of the website.
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We may use the information to improve our services.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The cookies that we use do not record any personal information whatsoever – they only tell us your computer’s IP Address and where you are in the country.
We use Google Analytics cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Cookies that we use
Google Analytics
Names:
- _utma
- _utmb
- _utmc
- _utmz
Purpose:
The _utma cookie provides each unique browser that visits a page on our site a unique ID so that subsequent visits via the same browser are recorded as belonging to the same (unique) visitor.
_utmb and _utmc cookies are used to establish a session with our webserver. They serve to ensure that your session is recorded between page visits so that we can obtain a clearer picture of how you use our website. We can analyse this data to improve the layout / navigation of our website.
The _utmz cookie lets us know if you have reached our website via a search engine (i.e. if you reached us by typing alverdiscott huntshaw parish council in a Google search). This is known as search engine referral and this cookie tracks and reports on that information.
You can opt out from these cookies by setting Google Analytics to “I decline” under Privacy Settings.
Follow This Link to Find out More about Google Analytics Cookies
Google Translate
Name:
googtrans
Purpose:
googtrans cookie stores your language choice so that it can be remembered on every page so that you don’t have to keep selecting a language for every page you visit. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser session.
You can opt out from these cookies by setting Web Widgets to “I decline” under Privacy Settings.
Cookie Consent
Name:
- cc_analytics
- cc_social
- cc_widgets
Purpose:
These cookies are necessary to remember if you have chosen to allow any of the three types of cookies that we use (analytics, social and widgets). They simply store a yes or no value to allow or reject these cookies respectively.
These cookies are required to store your Privacy Settings.
General information about Controlling Cookies (Browser Specific):
Internet Explorer – How to manage cookies with Internet Explorer
Google Chrome – How to mange cookies with Google Chrome
Safari – How to manage cookies with Safari
Firefox – How to manage cookies with Firefox
Security on Linked Websites
Our website does contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.