Privacy & Cookies

1. What type of information is collected?

We receive, collect and may store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. In addition, we may also collect the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet and other personal information including name and email address.

2. How is your information collected and why do we have it?

When you interact on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. We use the personal information you have given us in order to;
● To provide and operate our services
● To create statistical data to help us improve our services
● To comply with any applicable laws and regulations

3. How is your personal information stored, used, shared and disclosed?

The Parish Council stores information you provide in accordance with our General Privacy Notice and Document Disposal & Retention Policy.

4. How do we communicate with site visitors?

We may contact you in response to your request for information from us. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text message and postal mail if you have provided us with this information.

5. Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally. These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example: enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task or measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast. This website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of cookies on their device.

Anonymous visitor cookies

We may use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, how long you spend on the site, what site you came from originally (e.g. Google search page) and what page you look at. This helps us to continuously improve our website. We use Google Analytics to help us do this. For more information on how Google Analytics processes this information, visit the Google Analytics website.

Controlling the cookies we use to collect information about you

When you accept our use of cookies this helps us to provide a better service to you. If you do not want to receive cookies from our website, select the cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, and add our domain name to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from. If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that do not work, including ours.

Other websites

Our privacy policy does not cover the links within our website that link you to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements available on the other websites you visit.

6. If you wish to withdraw your consent

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact the Clerk at clerk@boughtonunderblean-pc.gov.uk

7. Website Privacy Policy Update

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.

8. Contact details

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact the clerk at clerk@boughtonunderblean-pc.gov.uk