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Privacy policyIntroductionNewry and Mourne District Council take the confidentiality of personal data seriously and are committed to protecting your privacy. Our privacy statement explains how we collect, use and disclose information that you provide through the Newry and Mourne District Council website. When you use this site, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of that information, in accordance with this privacy statement. We are committed to fulfilling our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998. We are a registered data controller and have taken appropriate steps to protect your privacy and information. Information about us and Our Website This site is owned, managed and run by Newry and Mourne District Council. Our address is:- Newry and Mourne District Council Newry Co. Down BT35 8DJ Our privacy statement covers the Newry and Mourne District Council website www.newryandmourne.gov.uk and any of its derivatives plus the following Council owned sites linked to this site:
IT Department E-mail it@newryandmourne.gov.uk Ways We Collect InformationSome areas of this site require you to actively submit information in order for you to benefit from specific features, such as our range of online services, for example, online forms or online payments. You will be informed at each of these information collection points what information is required and what information is optional. Some of this information may be personal data (information that can be uniquely identified with you, such as your name, address, e-mail address, phone number). We only collect such information when you choose to supply it to us and it is processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Information is also gathered without you actively providing it, through the use of various technologies and methods such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and cookies. These methods do not collect or store personal information. IP AddressesThe council will gather information on IP addresses in order to provide statistics on the Web site use. The IP addresses are addresses provided by your Internet Service provider and in no way identifies to Newry and Mourne District Council you as a person or identifies any personal information about yourself. The Council may at times have to use such IP addresses to identify those responsible for misuse of our Web Site, but this will done in consultation with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and relevant law enforcements agency and in keeping with all required legislation at that time. CookiesA cookie is a piece of data stored locally on your computer and contains information about your activity on the internet. On our website, we use cookies to track users’ progress though the site, allowing us to make improvements based on usage data. The information in a cookie does not contain personal data. Once you close your browser, our access to the cookie terminates. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose not to accept the cookie, this will not affect your access to the majority of information available on our website. However, you will not be able to make full use of our online services. Monitoring Of E-mailWe may monitor your e-mail and other online communications with us (this includes any member of staff). Any such monitoring will take place in accordance with the law. StatisticsWe use log files generated by our web servers to analyse site usage and statistics but the files do not identify any personal information. Log file analysis helps us to understand usage patterns on our website and to make improvements to our service. Disclosure of InformationWe may use information you provide through this site to improve the content, to customise the site to your preferences, for research, to communicate information to you or for marketing purposes, if you have requested it, and for the purposes specified in this privacy statement. We do not disclose any information you provide through the site to any other individuals or organisations (third parties), except where: - such disclosures are necessary to fulfil our service obligations to you, in which case we will require such third parties to agree to treat it in accordance with this privacy statement
Access to Your Personal InformationWe will take all reasonable steps in accordance with our legal obligations to update or correct your personal information in our possession that you submit through this site. You have a right to ask to see details of any personal information that we hold about you. To do this, contact us at:- IT Department E-mail it@newryandmourne.gov.uk SecurityWe have a legal duty to protect your privacy. We take all appropriate steps to protect any information you submit through our website, in accordance with legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998. We take care to protect your personal information as you transmit it from your computer to our site and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data and operate strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. Where you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features on this site, you also have a responsibility to take reasonable steps to safeguard them. Links to Other WebsitesThis site contains links and references to other websites. This privacy statement does not apply to those websites and we encourage you to read the privacy statement of every website you visit. Notification of Changes to Our Privacy StatementWe will post details of any changes to our privacy statement on this website to help make sure you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and in what circumstances, if any we share it with other parties. This privacy statement was last updated in October 2010. |
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