Privacy statement

If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the South Bedfordshire District Council website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server. IP addresses are not linked to any personal data so all visitors to our site remain anonymous.

We will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you on one of our on-line forms or by email. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It will only be used within South Bedfordshire District Council for the purposes stated and will not be passed to any other parties.

Cookies.

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a IP address that the site uses to track the pages you've visited and traffic patterns, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Our Web Trends Live tracking service uses cookies in order to determine the usefulness of our Website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We do not use cookies for collecting personal user information. Click on the link for further details of the Web Trends Live privacy policy. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set the security settings of your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.

This privacy statement only covers the South Bedfordshire District Council website. This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites.