Weston Under Wetherley Parish Council Website Privacy Policy
This policy sets out what you can expect from us regarding your privacy whilst using this website.
References to ‘we / our / us’ mean Weston Under Wetherley Parish Council.
Weston Under Wetherley Parish Council respects your privacy. We do not intend to identify you through your use of this website.
Any information that you may specifically provide to us or information that is gathered automatically via cookies (see below) or traffic logs (see below), helps us to monitor our services and provide you with the services you are entitled to as a local resident or visitor to our website.
Under the GDPR we have a legal duty to protect any personal information that you may provide to us. The only way you can provide us with personal information on this website is by filling in the contact forms under the ‘Get in Touch’ function.
We do not pass on your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission to do so or the law requires it.
The only personal information we shall request through this website is your name and email address to ensure you are contacting us for a genuine reason.
Our Commitment to Privacy
Anonymity
Your visit to our site is anonymous (no personal information about you is recorded or gathered) unless you fill in a form to notify us of a problem eg with a street light or with this website, or you ask to be included on our email notifications list.
If you have specifically provided us with your email, postal address or telephone number we will only process your contact information for purposes connected with your initial enquiry.
Once you have submitted a contact form we may need to get in touch for administrative or verification purposes.
See ‘Your Rights’ below.
Cookies
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers.
We use cookies to track visits to our website and to allow easy social media connections to improve our service. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site and slow down your
experience.
How to Disable Cookies
Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies, but you can set your browser to refuse a cookie or ask your browser to show you where a cookie has been set up. Certain services are only activated by the presence of a cookie and, if you choose to refuse cookies, particular features of the Website or Services may not be available to you.
Find out how to disable/enable cookies by visiting the www.aboutcookies.org website which contains information on how this is done on a wide variety of web browsers.
More information about cookies can also be found by following the relevant link on the Information Commission website.