Privacy Statement
http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/ has
been developed to provide you with a convenient and secure online
service. Dacorum Borough Council is committed to the online privacy
of all of its users.
This privacy statement applies solely to
information on this website.
It has been written to give you a clear
explanation of our data processing practices to safeguard you and
your personal information.
The use of the term partners denotes businesses
and other authorities who work closely with Dacorum Borough Council
to provide a service to the public.
If you have any questions or concerns relating
to this policy and data protection please select Contact us from
the site menu.
By using this website you are accepting the
terms and conditions of use contained within this policy. If this
policy is not acceptable to you, please do not use the Dacorum
Borough Council website.
Notification of changes
From time to time it will be necessary to
update this Privacy Policy. This is in order to ensure our users
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time it was collected, we will notify users. Users will have a
choice as to whether or not we use their information in this
different manner. We will use information in accordance with the
privacy policy in force at the time the information was
collected.
Information Collected
Dacorum Borough Council is the sole owner of
the information on this site. We will not sell, share or rent any
information on the website to third parties in any way, unless:
- it is stated on the web page at the point of collecting
information from you, or
- it is outlined in this policy statement, or
- it is required by law.
We automatically receive and record information
on server logs from your browser. Dacorum Borough Council only
monitors the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of visitors to
collect statistical data about usage patterns on our website. This
information does not relate to any personal detail of an individual
so all visitors to our site remain anonymous.
Users have several opportunities to provide
online views and comments about the website, Dacorum Borough
Council, and its services from our website. The information
provided by users via this service will be acted upon according to
the content of the communication. Dacorum Borough Council may
contact users in order to reply to the issues raised.
Dacorum Borough Council will retain all
communications received in order to produce statistical analysis
reports on the comments received. All personal information
collected on the website will be used for the purpose of delivering
the service for which the information was supplied.
Correcting and Updating Personal Information
If you need to change or modify information
that you have previously provided, you can do so by contacting the
Council by email or by post.
Cookies
A cookie is a means for your web page
browser to hold a small amount of information either in memory or
on you hard disk, for use during your website visit. It is
important to stress that cookies do not damage your computer, since
they cannot look into your computer and find out information about
you or read any personal material kept on your hard-drive.
There are two types of cookies - session and
persistent cookies. Session cookies disappear after you close your
browser, whereas persistent cookies are stored for a length of time
on your hard disk after which they "expire" automatically.
Like most other major websites, Dacorum Borough
Council uses cookies, some persistent, some session.
Any Dacorum Borough Council cookies that are
used or that remain on your PC do not contain any record of the
information you may enter, nor any other personal information, and
are only used so that interactive sessions function correctly. No
other website can read the id we store in our cookies and we do not
read any information from other websites.
If you follow any external links from Dacorum
Borough Council to visit another website, you might encounter the
use of cookies on those sites, which of course is beyond the
control of Dacorum Borough Council.
If you would like more information about what
can cookies do, and how you can manage or refuse them, we recommend
you look at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
These web pages are produced by the Interactive Advertising Bureau
(IAB) who develop standards and guidelines to support online
business processes.
Security
Access to all our user information is
restricted. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job are granted access to personally identifiable
information.
The servers on which we store personally
identifiable information are kept in a secure environment which is
continually monitored and tested.