This information explains how South Hams District Council uses any information you
give to us, and the ways in which we protect your privacy.
We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the Data Protection
Act 1998.
Under the Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you.
We take appropriate security measures to safeguard your data and apply security standards and controls
to prevent any unauthorised access to it.
The Privacy
and Electronic Communications
Regulations are changing on 26 May 2011. One of the most significant changes will be to the use of cookies.
We use cookies on this website
A
cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever you use to surf the Internet.
Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer.
We
encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience
for you and many others.
The cookies we use are:
SiteAnalyze
web analytics cookie: this cookie is used to help record your use of this website. It is
used to collect statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site. This information
is then used to improve the user experience on our website.
This SiteAnalyze cookie contains
a randomly generated ID used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookie contains no
personal information and is used only for web analytics.
This SiteAnalyze cookie is called
'nmstat' in the list of cookies and is set to expire 1,000 days after your last visit.
Twitter
cookie
The code provided by Twitter to include Twitter functionality
on this website may by default set cookies.
For information about Twitter cookies
see :
Please
Note: Some clips on this site may be provided from YouTube. YouTube also uses cookies to collect information.
Cookies can be used to store data about the user's computer or the user watching a video. YouTube uses
cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics, prevent fraud and to improve the site experience,
among other things. YouTube uses cookies on both youtube.com and on videos embedded from youtube.com.
YouTube has been working to give users more options and control over these cookies. One such option
is the privacy-enhanced mode for our embed player. This mode restricts YouTube's ability to set cookies
for a user who views a web page that contains a privacy-enhanced YouTube embed video player, but does
not click on the video to begin playback. YouTube may still set cookies on the user's computer once
the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie
information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Normally clips are configured
with privacy-enhanced mode enabled.
To
delete cookies or reject cookies
We recommend you allow the cookies
we set by this website as they help us provide a better service.
If you
do not want to
receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser
options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.
Under
settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.
If
you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites
that does not work.
When you visit this website, your IP address, browser
and version, operating system
and the site you came from may be stored in a log file. This information is only used for statistical
purposes to help improve this site. Log files do not contain any personal information
If
you send us an e-mail message
or complete an on-line form, we will use your e-mail/postal address and any information you provide
to deal with and respond to your query or comments. This information may be disclosed to the appropriate
office of the Council in order to deal with or respond to your message.
We
may collect information that you give to us in consultations, surveys, competitions or questionnaires.
Whenever we do this we will inform you of what your information will be used for and to whom it will
be disclosed.
We may share non-personal statistical, or summary information with organisations
working in partnership with us, such as health authorities or other local councils.
We occasionally provide bulletin boards, message board and news group facilities.
Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and
you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose information about yourself.
This privacy statement applies only to websites belonging to and operated by South
Hams District Council.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of third
party web sites that may be linked to our web pages
