Online privacy statement
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. See our page on safety and security online.
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.
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.
Email
Email is not a secure method of communication because the text may be intercepted by third parties. Please do not include any sensitive or private information in your email correspondence with us.
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 currently do not use cookies. However, at some time in the future it may be necessary to use cookies in order to customise our site. We will always ask your permission before doing this and we will give you an opportunity to reject our cookies.
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.
