Privacy

We do not collect personal information about you when you visit the website unless you choose to provide it to us to take advantage of a specific service, for example completing an online form.

Use of cookies

Some information is collected and stored automatically when you visit the site. Google Analytics, a web analytics service, sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the web site. This information does not identify you personally and includes:

The internet domain and IP address from which you access the site
The type of browser and operating system used to access the site
The date and time of your visit
The pages you visit
If you arrived at the Essex County Council website from another website, the address of that website and any website you visit directly from the ECC website.

We also collect information on the number of times particular search terms are used and the number of failed searches. We use this information to improve access to the site and to identify gaps in the information content so we can plan appropriate expansion of the system.

For more information about how to use your browser to control the use of cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Unless the law allows us to, we do not:

share any of the information we collect about you with others
use this information to identify individuals.

Personal information

Essex County Council handles information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information Act 2000 and is the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.

If you choose to send us personal information, we will use that information to respond to your enquiry and will only pass your details to another agency if it is required by law or that agency is relevant to your enquiry. We do not collect personal information for commercial purposes.

Links to other sites

The Essex County Council website links you to many other websites. We do not have any control over the content, security policy or privacy policy of these sites.