Occasionally, you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g.name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include bulletins, email updates and website feedback.
By entering your details in the fields requested you allow Cinderford Town Council and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Any information you provide to Cinderford Town Council will only be used by us, our agents and service providers and will not be disclosed unless we are obliged to or permitted by law to do so.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on the Cinderford Town Council website or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the Cinderford Town Council website, we may use whatever information is available to us, about you, to stop such behaviour. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met or when you no longer wish to continue your subscription.
The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.
We do not pass on your details to any third party.
Changes to our policy
If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.
Use of 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, for example, computer or mobile phone. 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
- Recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- 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.
You can manage these small files yourself through your browser setting.
Current cookies
We use the following cookies on our website
Cookie: Session cookie
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Purpose: Set by the content management system that runs this website whenever a visitor accesses the site. This specifies that the visitor is a guest user. This cookie is essential to the function of a visit to the website, but is not used to identify individual visitors.
Cookie: Resolution cookie
Name: resolution
Purpose: Set by the content management system that runs this website whenever a visitor accesses the site. This cookie adjusts the page to fit the browser size. This cookie is essential to the function of a visit to the website, but is not used to identify individual visitors.
Cookie: Google Analytics
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Purpose: Set by Google Analytics on your first visit to this website. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to this site and it is updated with each page view. This is used to help us measure numbers and volumes of visitors usinganonymised data.
Cookie: Google Analytics
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Purpose: Set by Google Analytics to establish and continue your visits to our site. Each time a user visits a different page on our site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as your activity continues within 30-minute intervals. This cookie expires when a visitor pauses on a page on our site for longer than 30 minutes. This is used to help us measure numbers and volumes of visitors using anonymised data.
Cookie: Google Analytics
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Purpose: Set by Google Analytics to store how a visitor reaches our website; whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. This cookie is updated with each page view on our website. This is used to help us measure the success of online marketing (e.g. organic or paid search engine listings) and offline marketing that is used to direct visitors to this website. This uses anonymised data.