Privacy Statement
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council regards your privacy as important and complies with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Our website is hosted for us by rol solutions ltd, with a few pages hosted on internal servers here at the council. Our website performance and website statistical analysis is carried out by eVisit Analyst.
We will only use personal information you send to us for the purposes for which you provide it. We will only hold your information for as long as necessary for these purposes and will not pass it to any other parties unless this is made clear to you. All employees who have access to your personal data or are associated with the handling of that data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.
Your visit to our website is anonymous (no personal information about you is recorded or gathered) unless you place an order, fill in a survey or other form requesting information.
Internet Security
Forms hosted by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, on the domain hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk
When you pay a bill online or when you fill in an online application form hosted on our website, that is, on the domain hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk, your information is transfered to us securely over the internet using the Hypertext Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (HTTPS). Using HTTPS, your information is encrypted as it is sent over the internet. Find out more about HTTPS (Wikipedia ) (*Exception: Citizens Panel Further Details Form: http://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk//pp/form/detail.asp?id=154)
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Personal Data we hold
All of our employees who have access to your personal data and/or are associated with the processing of that data are contractually obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data. We have put in place appropriate technology measures and security policies and procedures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction or accidental loss.
Cookies
A cookie is small file placed on a user's computer by a website. It logs information about the user and their visits. Most major websites use cookies. Rol Solutions ltd only uses session cookies which are deleted when you close your browser. eVisit Analyst uses cookies in order to record our website statistics. The information can subsequently help us to improve our website. For example, it can help us to structure content in our web pages so that you can find it more quickly and easily. Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, rol solutions ltd and eVisit Analyst do not pass on information gathered from these cookies to any third party without your consent, unless the law requires/ permits it. Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you. You can choose to restrict or refuse cookies through your browser and delete them at a later point in time, when they are no longer required. You can find further information about cookies by visiting the website All About Cookies
Links
Our website contains links to other sites. Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council is not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites, so please check their privacy statements carefully.
Data Protection Act 1998
Our privacy statement covers Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council and its website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 we have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you. We do not pass on your details to any third party or government department without your permission/ unless the law requires/ permits it.
Please be advised that any information, unless stated otherwise, will be sent to us via the open internet and is therefore not secure during transmission to us.
The Information Commissioner enforces and oversees the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We notify the Information Commissioner of the types of personal data we process and for what purpose we use it and with whom we share it. Please visit the Information Commissioner's website, notification no. Z6099526, to see what is recorded in our Data protection Notification. If you have any concerns or questions or would like to know whether personal information is stored by us, please write to:
Louisa Horton
Data Protection Officer
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
Council Offices
Argents Mead
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
Leicestershire
LE10 1BZ
