Privacy and cookies policy
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights that may be exercised free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
- access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
- require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
- receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
- object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
- otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or find out more visit our data transparency page.
COLLECTION AND USE OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary “session” cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser. Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:
- the IP address of the visitor’s web server
- the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
- the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
- clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
- the type of web browser used by the website visitor.
We will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is our policy never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by us, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998.
PRIVACY POLICY
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this document.
COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by using any online forms). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by us alone, in line with the purpose for which you provided it.
GENERAL STATEMENT
We fully respect your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
PRIVACY POLICIES OF THIRD PARTY SITES
This Privacy policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on our site. Other sites that may be accessible through this site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. If you link to any such site, we urge you review the site’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.
This website is run by Shaftesbury Town Council.
This website is currently being audited with the aim for it to be accessible to as many people as possible. We know that as of 01/05/2021 some parts of our website aren’t fully accessible and we are currently working on this compliance. We are working towards WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU CAN’T ACCESS ALL OR PART OF THIS WEBSITE
If you require any information on this website in different formats, such as accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
Visit us at: The Town Hall, High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8LY
Tel: 01747 852420
Email: enquiries@shaftesbury-tc.gov.uk
We aim to deal with all requests within 7 working days.
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED
web browser – The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari, etc..
IP address – The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in “internet protocol” code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.
cookies – Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can “remember” you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.