Our policy is to respect and protect the privacy of anyone who visits the East Sussex County Council website.
Personal information collected via online forms
We have taken great care to make sure that no-one can intercept personal information about you.
Where we ask you for personal information through an online form, this information will only be used for the purpose indicated and it will be held in a secure manner. Information sent in this way is encrypted.
Email is not a secure method of communication because the text may be intercepted by third parties. If you need to send us sensitive or private information, please see our page on safety and security online.
Your information will not be used for any other purpose without your permission and will not be kept for longer than necessary. If you are concerned about providing your personal information online, we can arrange alternative means for you to do this. Please contact the Web Team.
Use of IP addresses
Every computer has its own individual IP address, identifying it in the same way as a telephone number identifies your phone line.
We collect IP addresses only for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our site. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that while your use of the website will be logged you will remain anonymous to us.
Use of cookies
A cookie refers to a text file which is stored on a user's hard drive and is used to identify that user when they revisit a website. A common use of cookies is to store information entered into a form so it does not need to be re-entered on subsequent visits. We use cookies occasionally on our site, but you can use your browser settings to block them if you want to.
You can find out more about cookies, how they're used and how you can opt out of using them:
Here's a list of the cookies we use, what they're called and what they do.
- '__utma', '__utmb', '__utmc', '__utmz'
These are set by Google Analytics. We use this service to help us understand how many people are visiting the website and how they're using it, so that we can see where we can improve.
- Web analytics for East Sussex County Council – Data.gov
- Opt out of Google Analytics – Google Tools website
- 'textsize'
We've provided a way to change the size of the text on our website. We use these cookies to remember your choice, so you don't have to keep changing the size.
- 'ASP.NET_SessionId' and 'ASPSESSIONIDxxx' (the xxx part is different for everyone)
These are temporary cookies needed by some of the tools on the website to recognise you from one page to the next. They're deleted when you leave our site.
- 'FeSettings_SecurityString'
This is used by our jobs pages to protect you against people trying to take over your login and get your personal details.
- Session hijacking – Wikipedia
- 'ASPNETPoll_xxx' (the xxx part is different for each poll)
When we run a poll, if you vote this cookie reminds us not to ask you again. To avoid this cookie you could email us with your views instead.
- 'template1'
If you first see our full design and then choose to use our mobile design instead, we set this cookie to "mobile" to remember your choice.
External links
This site contains links to other sites. East Sussex County Council is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. See our links policy.
Contacting us
If you have any comments or questions about the accuracy of information on this site please contact the Web Team.
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