Privacy Policy – Adopted March 2023


This privacy policy statement has been established to give a clear explanation of our data
processing practices and use of cookies to safeguard you and your personal information.


Notification of changes
From time to time, it will be necessary to update our privacy policy. If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will indicate that changes have been made on the homepage. This is to ensure
our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If at any point we wish to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a
choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.


Information collected
Corfe Castle Parish Council are the owners of the information collected on this site. We will not
sell, share or rent any part of your information collected on the website to third parties in any
way, unless stated on the web page at the point of collecting information from you, or as
outlined in our policy statement, or as required by law.
We automatically collect statistical data about usage patterns on our website. This information
does not relate to you as an individual and is collected to provide us with an understanding of the
areas of interest on our site.
Using facilities on our website you have an option to provide views and comments about our
website, any of Dorset’s councils and their services. The information provided by you via this
service will be acted upon according to the content of the communication. We may contact you
in order to reply to the issues raised. This contact will be made via email, unless an alternative is
specified.
We will retain all communications received in order to produce statistical analysis reports.
All personal information collected on the website will be used for the purpose of delivering the
service for which the information was supplied. In addition, the information may be used to make
you aware of new or improved services available from us, unless you refuse us permission.


Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored
temporarily on your computer. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk, read cookie files
created by other websites or damage your system.
This website only uses cookies to maintain a unique identity on your browser whilst you use
certain pages. Any cookies used do not contain any record of the information you may enter, nor
any other personal information. They are only used to measure overall website traffic and to
ensure interactive sessions function correctly.


Security
Access to all of our users’ information is restricted. Only employees who need the information to
perform a specific job are granted access to personally-identifiable information. The servers that
we store personally-identifiable information on are kept in a secure enviro