Privacy Statement

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 cookies for collecting personal information from the site, other than to see which pages of the website have been visited and as part of the registrar's copy certificate online ordering system. 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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