Copyright, Privacy and Disclaimer

Copyright Statement

Applications for permission to reproduce text, photographs or graphic images contained on this site should be sent to:

The Web Manager
Communications Unit
Chester City Council
The Forum
Chester
CH1 2HS

The copyright of all photographs and graphic images is owned by Chester City Council (except where otherwise stated).

The information contained on this site is for general guidance only. You should neither act, nor refrain from action, on the basis of any such information. You should take appropriate professional advice on your particular circumstances because the application of laws and regulations will vary depending on particular circumstances and because laws and regulations undergo frequent changes.

Chester City Council disclaim all responsibility (including in negligence) for all consequences of any person acting on, or refraining from acting in reliance on, information contained in this site.

Disclaimer

Any links to third-party websites by Chester City Council provided solely for the purposes of convenience for those browsing the website of Chester City Council. Please note that the selection by you of a website which is listed on, or capable of being accessed from Chester City Council will connect you to a site which is not under the control of Chester City Council.

Chester City Council has no control over the content of linked websites or the services available through them and accordingly makes no representation concerning the content of those sites to you, nor can the fact that Chester City Council has referred to, or established hyper-links with, such sites serve as an endorsement of any kind whatsoever by Chester City Council of any of them, or of any subsequently linked sites (notwithstanding any description or summary against any item in Chester City Council's own pages.) Chester City Council has not tested any content, software, features or links found on any sites listed and does not give any representation regarding the quality, safety, suitability or reliability of any of them or of any of the material contained in them.

Privacy Statement

Chester City Council respects the privacy of all site visitors and subsequently complies with the Data Protection Act of 1998. The information you provide will be used by us to carry out improvements to our services. Information communicated via the Internet could be detected by third parties and any information you send to us is at your own risk.

Information that you provide about yourself whilst making payments online will be used for the following purposes:

To provide us with management information about trends of behaviour relating to purchasing.
To deliver any goods that you purchase.

Chester City Council does not sell, trade or rent personal information to others although we may share this information with other public bodies and organisations that may be of help to you. We only use cookies for collecting user information when processing online orders and payments. Outside the area of online payments we will not collect any information about you except that specifically identified below.

This privacy policy only covers the Website at www.chester.gov.uk. Links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.

If you may submit information via forms etc, you are deemed to have consented to the collection, processing and storage of that information.

The webmaster will store the information you submit as an e-mail message and use it to process any requests. It will be retained for a reasonable period. Where a business transaction is then enacted commercial records may be retained for up to seven years.

We follow the Data Protection Act principles of fair processing. Should you have any concern regarding collection, processing, storage or disclosure of information submitted via this website please contact the our Data Protection Officer at the following address:

The Data Protection Officer
Chester City Council
The Forum
Chester
CH1 2HS

As any website is potentially available in many countries, it is possible that information submitted to this site will be transmitted via servers and networks that are outside the UK.

In submitting information to this site the act of clicking buttons that submit your details is taken as explicit consent to use of the information as described in this statement.

Since no authentication of visitors is provided on this site we cannot be held responsible for any acts of impersonation and will assume all information submitted is genuine unless there is reason to doubt its authenticity. Should you suspect that a false entry has been made using your identity please let us know and we will consider the appropriate action to take.

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information, which often include an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.