The protection and security of your personal data are important to Shoreham Parish Council. Therefore, any personal data collected by Shoreham Parish Council via this web site will be with your knowledge or with your consent. Shoreham Parish Council wish to outline what information we record and for what purposes this information is used.

What information does ShorehamParishCouncil.gov.uk record and for what purposes?

When you access this web-site, certain information (e.g. IP address, date, time, web page accessed) is automatically kept for an unspecified time for data security purposes (e.g. in order to identify and trace any persons gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to the web site) and for statistical analysis.

Shoreham Parish Council will treat with strictest confidence any personal details sent when you access our home page. If you send ShorehamParishCouncil.gov.uk an e-mail or complete and submit the online forms on our web-site, your personal data (e.g. name or e-mail address) will be used only for our correspondence with you in order to send you the requested documents or information or for any other purpose stipulated on the individual form and will not be passed on to third parties.

In order to steadily enhance the attractiveness, content and functionality of our Internet pages, ShorehamParishCouncil.gov.uk also keep statistical information (e.g. the number of visitors to each web-site and how long they stayed there, Internet provider, browser type). The information is used for internal purposes only and does not allow individuals to be identified, thus precluding the creation of personal user profiles.

ShorehamParishCouncil.gov.uk do not use so-called cookies on our freely accessible Internet web-site.

Access to certain sections of our web-site is reserved for users with special authorisation rights (e.g. registered users). If in these areas for technical reasons or on legal grounds additional personal data are kept, or cookies are stored on the hard disk for the duration of the link (so-called session cookies), ShorehamParishCouncil.gov.uk expressly point this out here.

Protective measures

Shoreham Parish Council take suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, or destruction or against access by unauthorised persons.

Do you have any other questions?

If you have any further questions relating to data protection in connection with Shoreham Parish Council's Internet presence or regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact

Shoreham Parish Council Haresfield Packhorse Road Sevenoaks Kent TN13 2QR Telephone and Fax:01732 740 193

or by e-mail: clerk2008@ShorehamParishCouncil.gov.uk

Changes to this privacy statement

The updating of our Internet pages requires Shoreham Parish Council to make periodical adjustments to our privacy statement. Please note the latest version of our privacy statement (current status: 18th January 2008).