Durham County Council is the Data
Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Information which you send to us through our website (either by email or
through electronic forms) will be treated as follows:
1) We will keep it no longer than we reasonably believe is necessary.
2) We will use it only for the purpose for which you sent it, except that
3) We may use it for statistical analysis but in such a way that your identity
will not be involved.
You will not receive unsolicited paper or electronic mail from us as a result
of using an electronic form unless we explicitly ask for and get your
permission.
We will not pass on your e-mail address or any of your personal
details to other organisations.
However, please note that if you choose to make
your e-mail address publicly available on our website (via our guestbooks, for
example), it may be picked up and used by companies who specialize in creating
e-mail distribution lists to send you unsolicited e-mail ('spam').
We do not use
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for collecting personal
information from the site, other than to see which pages of the website have
been visited and as part of the
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egistrar's copy certificate online ordering system
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This helps us to
improve the navigation menus used in the website, and to make sure that our
pages are as up to date as possible.
We will not collect any information about
you except that required for the operation of the website.
Unless stated otherwise (i.e.
that you are viewing information over a secure
connection) information transmitted over the internet is not secure and we
cannot accept responsibity for misuse of information intercepted in this way.
This policy applies to the Durham County Council website but not to sites to
which we provide links.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of
information that is placed on your computer by a website.
They are used to
store information about you so that next time you enter the website it can
customise the web pages for you, these cookies will remain on your hard disk.
They cannot be used to get information from your computer without you filling
in a form.
They are more often used to pass information between pages on a
website, which in many cases will not be saved on your hard disk.
A website using cookies to customise web pages for your return visit may ask
you to provide personal information, which will be written to your computer -
if you are using a public access PC this may mean that your personal
information is saved on the PC.
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