Privacy Statement

Data Protection Act 1998

  • Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you.
  • We will only use personal information you supply to us for the reason that you provided it for.
  • We will only hold your information for as long as necessary to fulfil that purpose.
  • We will not pass your information to any other parties (including other council departments) unless this is made clear to you at the time you supplied it.
  • All employees and contractors who have access to your personal data or are associated with the handling of that data are obliged to respect your confidentiality.

Cookies and IP addresses

A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. We do use cookies to make it easier for you to complete on-line forms and questionnaires but these are only temporary and do not identify you or your visit to our site. However, the computers which host our website do maintain site logs which include the IP address details of all machines accessing our pages. This enables us to monitor website usage so we can:

  • See which pages are the most popular
  • See which pages are seldom or never visited
  • See how extensively the council website is used
  • Publish a summary of the above statistics to fulfil e-Government strategies
  • Any IP information is treated as strictly confidential and is not published or divulged to any third party.

If you have any query about personal information that we may hold, please write to:

Janet Taylor
Deputy Head of Legal Services
Canterbury City Council
Military Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 1YW
E-mail: janet.taylor@canterbury.gov.uk

Copyright

This website is owned by Canterbury City Council and is protected by copyright. The information provided on our web pages is for your personal use. It is not to be networked, distributed or published without the prior written consent of the council.

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to ensure the information contained on this website is correct and up to date, including hyperlinks to other organisations' websites. However, as the information on these sites is not maintained by the council:

  • We cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions
  • We do not necessarily endorse views or opinions expressed within these sites
  • We cannot guarantee that any of these external links will work all of the time

You can help maintain the quality of our links to external sites by letting us know if you find the content of any site unacceptable or offensive. Please e-mail the Web And Intranet Team: wait@canterbury.gov.uk