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The website does use some cookies when you browse this website. These are used to ensure proper running of this website, and also to help us improve your experience when browsing.

NONE OF THE INFORMATION WE GATHER VIA COOKIES IDENTIFIES YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL – IT IS ALL ENTIRELY ANONYMOUS.

Below is a table with the cookies our website places on your computer.

Cookie Name Cookie Category Description Duration
wordpress_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user. session
wordpress_logged_in_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user session
wordpress_test_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user session
wordpress_test_cookie 2 WordPress test cookie session
wp-settings- 1 WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies.
The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table.
This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
1 year
wp-settings-time- 2 WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. 1 year
PHPSESSID 1 To identify your unique session on the website session
SESS 1 To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. session

Which organisation is collecting this information –

Hartington Upper Quarter Parish Council controls this website which is named www.hartingtonuq-pc.gov.uk and have delegated the management of its structure and content to the Clerk.

Third Party Involvement in this website

The site is hosted by 1 & 1 Web Hosting

This site uses website building tools provided by the following organisations and individuals;

WP101Plugin.com

WP-Client.com

Sidekick.pro

GoDaddy

GoDaddy.com, LLC

Automattic

David Hehenberger

Richard Ashby

http://www.govpress.co/

wordpress.org

We believe all of the above to be persons of integrity or to be organisations managed by responsible persons. However, we cannot guarantee that all persons who have, have had or will have access to these tools share our views on data security. If you want to check them out yourself , just follow the links to each of the tool providers. We will take all reasonable steps and follow industry good practice to ensure your safety online when using our website but we would remind you that there is no such thing as 100% security.

How this information is used:

If you have chosen to share it with us, we use your email address to contact you in reply to your message, or to send you further information. If you have entered your email address to leave a comment on the blog, it is used to identify your comment, however it is not displayed on the website or shared with any third party.

We may also use your email to help resolve issues or disputes, for example if you tell us that you cannot see any of your posts on the website, we would probably search our database using your email address to help diagnose the problem.

Our disclosure of this information:

We do not share your personal information or email address with third parties and we never will in the future.

Email opt-out:

Just like you, we hate spam. We do not send you spam emails.

You may ask for your emails and any other details we hold about you to be removed at any time. We will honour your request, confirm to your email address that we are deleting all your information and then action your request as soon as possible. We will not be able to contact you after this, for obvious reasons, unless you contact us again.

Protection of your information:

Hartington Upper Quarter Parish Council  uses best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information but we do not use encryption (such as SSL) or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. We do not believe that the personal information we collect warrants this level of security. It is important to be aware that there is no such thing as “perfect internet security”.

How to correct inaccurate information:

Once posted, you cannot change or remove any comments you have submitted on our website pages and/or posts. However, if you would like to have this information removed please contact us and we will do this for you.

You should know that because of technical constraints, all information is never completely removed from our databases. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests that it be removed. We will aim to remove all publicly-facing information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy:

From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy in line with website changes that may affect the personal information we gather about you. It is assumed that you accept such changes if you continue to use the site and services. If you do not accept such changes then you should stop using Hartington Upper Quarter Parish Council’s website and services, and contact us (details above) if you would like any information removed.