Privacy Policy

Privacy statement for North Kelvin Community Council

Please download our general privacy statement. The following additional information applies to this website, https://www.northkelvincc.org.uk/, which is operated by North Kelvin Community Council.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our website.

We use your data to provide and improve our website. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information collection and use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

Types of data collected

Personal data

If you choose to sign up for our mailing list, we will ask you for your email address and first half of your postcode. We will not ask for your name, full address or phone number. Personally identifiable information may also include cookies and usage data.

Usage data

We may also collect information on how the website is accessed and used. This usage data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (eg IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & cookies data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our website usage.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless we delete it, for example if you ask us to do so.

Use of data

North Kelvin Community Council uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our website
  • To send you our newsletter
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website
  • To monitor the usage of our website
  • To detect, prevent and address technical problems

Transfer of data

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data to the United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

North Kelvin Community Council will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of data

Legal requirements

North Kelvin Community Council may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of North Kelvin Community Council
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our website
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security of data

Your data is securely stored on a password-protected computer.

What rights you have over your data

If you have have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Analytics

We use Statcounter to analyse our web traffic. You can read the Privacy Policy for Statcounter here: https://statcounter.com/about/legal/.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

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