Privacy Statement
This page explains our privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information
about you that you give us when you visit this website.
The Data Protection Act
Worcestershire County Council is the Data Controller and under the Data Protection
Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use
leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict
security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We will not pass on
your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission
to do so.
What information do we collect?
We collect two kinds of information from visitors to the Destination Worcestershire
website: feedback (through visitors emailing us) and site usage information, from
cookies and log files.
Feedback
We welcome your feedback. If you send an email or letter to us, asking for information,
we may need to contact other organisations or government departments to find that
information. If your question is technical, we may need to pass it to our technology
suppliers. We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with
your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so.
Site usage information
Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and
which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer. A number of cookies are
created when you visit the Destination Worcestershire website. The cookies do not
contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify
an individual user. You can set your browser not to accept cookies. If you do not
know how to do this, contact us, giving details on the type of browser you are using,
and we will do our best to help. Please note that if you do set your browser not
to accept cookies many of the enhanced features may not work correctly.
Log files allow us to record visitors use of the site. We analyse the log file
information from all our visitors. We use this information to make changes to the
layout of the website and to the information in it. Log files do not contain any
personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of
use of the site.
What happens when I link to another site?
We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.
The Destination Worcestershire website contains links to other websites, both of
government departments and of other organisations. This privacy statement applies
only to our website, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another
site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.
Changes to this privacy statement
If this privacy statement changes in anyway, we will place an updated version on
this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it
with other parties.
