Website Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers are committed to protecting the privacy of the personally-identifiable information that we collect from you as you use this Web site (the "Site"). The scope of Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers commitment are detailed in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information, you agree to Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers use of such information as described herein. Please see our Terms and Conditions and User Agreement  for more information about our on-line policies in general.

Personal Information that might be collected

Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may collect personally-identifiable information ("Personal Information") on certain areas of the Site when users register, request information or a response, sign up for events, or apply for jobs amongst other things. The personally-identifiable information collected may include, without limitation, contact information (names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, instant messenger addresses, etc).

How Personal Information might be used

Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers uses your Personal Information to fulfil your requests for information such as processing your requests to participate in events, and to review and consider any employment-related inquiries that you may submit. We may keep any of your Personal Information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may also use Personal Information in analyzing Site user behaviour in order to measure interest in specific items posted on our Site Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may use Personal Information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described below.

Cookies and IP address logging

The Site may use cookies to identify you and your interests and to track usage of the Site. Cookies are small pieces of text stored on your computer that help us know which browser you are using and where you have been on the Site and on Web sites to which you may link in order to use some of our features. A user who does not accept the cookie from the Site may not be able to access certain areas of the Site. Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may log IP addresses, or the location of computers on the Internet, to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Site.

Personally-identifiable information and third-party disclosure

Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers will not intentionally disclose (and will take commercially reasonable steps to prevent the accidental disclosure of) your Personal Information to third parties), whether for such third parties' marketing purposes or otherwise, subject only to the following four exceptions:

• Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction
• Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may disclose your Personal Information to third parties who deliver information from us to you for the purpose of performing such delivery
• Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may disclose your Personal Information if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent to such disclosure
• Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers may disclose contact information for you in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information you have provided to Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers

Security

Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized  Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers personnel are provided access to Personal Information, and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, Bournemouth Borough Council and third party content providers cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your Personal Information.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you:

You have a right of access to personal information we hold about you. This is usually referred to as 'subject access rights'.
The leaflet ‘Our Commitment to you and your rights’ will help to provide further information about how we protect your personal information.
For further information about Data Protection please email information.compliance@bournemouth.gov.uk

Consent
By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy.

This policy has been in effect since 1.1.09.