VILLAGE INDEX

www.dengie.org.uk

This policy relates to all the web sites within the Marshland group including www.dengie.org.uk

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our web site visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

    What Information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

(a)            information about your visits to and use of this web site;

(b)            information about any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this web site, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services;

(c)            information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our web site services and/or email notifications; and/or entries in guest books

  Information about web site visits

We may collect information about you computer and your visits to this web site such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this web site, to improve the web site’s usability, and for our marketing purposes.

 Cookies

We use cookies on this web site. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by that browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a name from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. We may use the information we obtain from your cookies in the administration of this web site, to improve the web sites usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you visit our  web site, and if relevant to personalise our web site for you.

Our site may contain advertisements placed by third parties who may also send you cookies.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.  (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.)  This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many web sites

Use of personal data

Personal data submitted on this web site will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the web site.

In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

(a)            improve your browsing experience by personalising the web site;

 (b)       send information (other than marketing communications) to you which we think may be of interest to you by post or by email or similar technology;]

(c)     send to you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent by emailing us at webmaster@marshland.org.uk).

(d)            In the case of guest book entries, any information that you enter will be

          displayed  on the web site and may be used by other parties to contact you.  

Other than the entry d above we will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for any purpose which includes the purpose of direct marketing.

Disclosure of information

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

(a)        to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)        in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(c)        in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and

(d)        to the purchaser or seller (or prospective purchaser or seller) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling or purchasing.]⁵

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Care of data

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Of course, data transmission over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our web site. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. 

     Third party web sites

The web site contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third party web sites.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to webmaster@marshland.org.uk or by post to Marshland, Marshland House, 9 Marsh Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, CM0 8LZ, UK