Herefordshire Through Time
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 or government department unless you give us permission to do so, or where allowed by law.
You have the right to make a formal request in writing for access to personal information (or "personal data") held about you by our website, to inspect it and to have it corrected if it is wrong. We make a small charge for providing this information (currently £10.00). Please use the contact details on this page to direct your enquiries.
We collect two kinds of information from visitors to our website:
You can send us your feedback in three ways: by comments and questions to the Herefordshire Through Time editor, sent by e-mail, phone or post.
Herefordshire Archaeology
Herefordshire Council
PO Box 230
Blueschool House
Blueschool Street
Hereford
HR1 2ZB
Tel: 01432 260130
Email:
smrenquiries@herefordshire.gov.uk
If you send an e-mail or letter to the editor or call us, asking for information, we may need to contact our other departments or Partnership organisations to find that information. If your question is technical, we may need to pass it to our technology supplier. We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so.
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a website. Our site, http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/htt, uses session cookies to collect information to help us improve our online services and content. For example, they enables us to see which are the popular links from a web page and what are the most common routes through our site so we can amend and update content as necessary.
Unique session information, such as the last page visited. This cookie does not contain any personal information about you, and does not hold any information about which sites you visited before our website. Additionally, this cookie does not track visitor behaviour across multiple web sites.
When any browser first goes to the website
These are session cookies, hence they expire when the session ends, you close the browser or logout.
They enable us to gain a better understanding of what content visitors are interested in and how effective the site is at delivering that content. They enable us to track visitor usage patterns for the website but do not contain personal identifiable information. For example, we could use them to see that 10 pages looked at over 3 days represent usage by 2 different visitors.
Other third-party applications may use persistent cookies. These may be created by online applications where you are required to login and these cookies have an expiry date that will allow it to remain on your machine even after you have logged out or closed your browser. Herefordshire Council has no control over third-party cookies.
Our help page gives you information about how you can remove cookies.
Log files allow us to record your use of the site. Herefordshire Council ICT Services puts together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make changes to the layout of the site and to the information in it. This is based on the way that you move around our website and the route you used to accessed it.
Our website contains links to other websites, both those of the Herefordshire Partnership organisations and of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.
We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.
If you wish to see our records of any correspondence you have sent to us, or if you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us by e-mail, phone or post.
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