Website Conditions of Use
By reading and continuing to use this website you agree to the
following conditions of use. This site is managed by Ashford
Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford Kent TN23
1PL.
Disclaimer
Ashford Borough Council makes every effort to ensure that
information on this website is accurate and up-to-date. However, we
cannot accept responsibility for any loss or inconvenience caused
by reliance on information on this site.
Links to Third-party websites
Ashford Borough Council is not responsible for any third-party
websites that may be accessed through this website.
Ashford Borough Council does not endorse the content contained
in these sites, nor the organisations publishing those sites, and
hereby disclaims any responsibility for such content.
Copyright
All rights in the design, text, graphics and other material on
the website is copyright of Ashford Borough Council or other third
parties. Should you wish to reproduce any of the information or
alter, modify or distribute it, please contact
the Media Team.
Privacy Policy
You should note that Ashford Borough Council as a public
authority is subject to the requirements of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 ("the Act") and may be obliged under the Act
to disclose information to a third party who has made an
information request, subject to the applicability of any of the
exemptions under the Act. You should identify any information
which you provide to us which is of a particularly confidential or
sensitive nature.
This privacy policy demonstrates the commitment of Ashford
Borough Council and its partners to the privacy of your data. We
will, as far as possible, safeguard the privacy of your data whilst
providing a personalised and valuable service.
This privacy policy applies to all information we hold about you
or your business/organisation, including "personal data" as defined
in the Data Protection Act 1998 ie data which relates to a living
individual who can be identified from the data (or from the data
and other information which we hold or are likely to hold). If you
have any requests concerning information about you or your
business/organisation or any queries relating to this privacy
policy, please contact us.
Information Collected
The main types of information we hold about you and your
business/organisation are:
- Details relating to your business/organisation
- Personal details relating to you and any other individual
contacts at your or business/organisation
- Details of your query/enquiry
- Records of any services we or our partners provide for your
company/business/organisation.
If you contact us for any reason, we may retain copies of any
letters, emails or online forms and may record telephone
conversations with you.
Use of Information
We and our partners will only use information about you or your
business/organisation for direct marketing purposes if you give
consent for us or our partners will pass information about you or
your business/organisation to any other person or organisation for
marketing purposes.
We may use information about you or your business/organisation
for the purposes of analysing how our services are used and how we
may improve our services in future. Any information we use will be
converted into a form in which we cannot identify you, and will be
kept strictly confidential.
We may use your information anonymously to build up marketing
profiles.
Our Partners
We work with a number of partners, so that they can provide you
with appropriate information about goods or services which may
assist you in your business/organisation location plans.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your
browser on your computer's hard drive. Most web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your
browser to prevent that. However, this may reduce the site's
functionality.
At present we only use "session cookies", which are deleted when
you close your browser window following your use of our site. We do
not store any permanent cookies on your computer's hard drive.
However, this may change at some point in the future, in which case
the revised cookie policy will be placed on this page.
Like most websites, we routinely monitor IP addresses of the
computer from which users access the site. We use such data only to
monitor levels of traffic to the site, and we do not match this
data with individual user records.
Accessing Your Records
If at any stage you would like to check information we hold
about you, please either:
1. Email Ashford Borough Council's Media
Team
2. Write to Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane,
Ashford Kent TN23 1PL.
Please mark your email or letter, "Subject Access Request".
We will take the necessary action within a reasonable time. We
reserve the right to take reasonable steps to confirm your identity
before making any disclosure of information held by us.
Security
We use a number of technologies and operational procedures to
protect data submitted to us by our users. Physical security of
data on our equipment is provided by a combination of firewalls,
website authentication services and data encryption.
Transmission of Data
Whilst we have taken all reasonable steps to ensure that
information about you or your business/organisation will be kept
secure from unauthorised access we cannot guarantee that the
information will be secure during transmission by you to this
website.
If you access this website from a country outside the European
Economic Area (EEA) and view information about you or your
business/organisation held by us, this will involve transferring
that data to the computer you are using to access the website. You
should be aware that the country in which you are viewing the
information may have less stringent data protection laws than
countries within the EEA.
Data Controller
The data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act
1998 is Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane,
Ashford Kent TN23 1PL.
We have notified the Information Commissioner of our processing,
in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We will at all
times comply with the Data Protection Act.
If you have any questions about our use of information about you
or your business/organisation, please do not hesitate to contact
us.
Voluntary and Community Directory
Ashford Borough Council operates this database to allow
information supplied by voluntary and community organisations in
the borough to be freely available. However, information included
in this database and associated sites is supplied by the
organisations themselves and is of a general nature only. Whilst
Ashford Borough Council aims to and uses reasonable effort to
include accurate and up-to-date information on its web pages,
information and organisers of local organisations do change
frequently. Therefore Ashford Borough Council cannot guarantee the
accuracy of entries nor assumes any liability or gives any warranty
of any kind for the information and data contained or omitted from
this site or for any action or inaction made in reliance thereon.
Ashford Borough Council takes every reasonable step to ensure the
validity of groups on the database but cannot guarantee the quality
of services or activities offered. The inclusion of an organisation
does not imply a recommendation or endorsement by Ashford Borough
Council.
This webpage was updated on
3/18/2009