Privacy

Your privacy is paramount to Broxtowe Borough Council and as such, Broxtowe Borough Council is committed to protecting your privacy online. We will treat any personal information by which you can be identified (i.e. name, address, email and the like) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act of 1998.

We will not sell, trade or rent your information to other third parties.

We will not collect any personal information without your knowledge. This information will be collected for a known purpose that you understand and will not be used in future for any other reason other than the one it is being collected for in the first instance.

The collection of information is for the purpose of communicating with you in regards to an online query and/or your benefiting from our online transactional services.

Stored Information

When you visit our website to view pages, download documents, etc. we automatically store the following information on a cookie:

The domain name (if available) and IP address from which you accessed our site
The date and time you visited
The pages you viewed
The type of browser and operating system you used

This information enables us to analyse usage of our site and help us to improve the website services we offer. This monitor does not include personally identifiable information. This is not unique as the majority of web site servers on the Internet will store this information every time you visit their site.

Polls

Participation in a poll will result in a cookie being saved on your computer. This is used to help reduce the instances of multiple voting.

Forms

Whilst visiting the site you may wish to complete one of our online forms. This information will only be used for the stated purpose. Your information will not be added to any mailing list nor will you receive any unrelated mail unless you specifically indicate so on the form.

Linked Sites

The privacy statement applies solely to the Broxtowe Borough Council website. If you visit one of the linked sites our policy no longer applies and we strongly recommend that you check the linked sites privacy statement for further information.

Use of Cookies

The use of cookies on the website are only used to store user session data. No sensitive data is stored in the cookie itself. The session information is used to store a number of interactions such as using the Login or Polls function. As such this information is necessary for these options to function and is providing a service that the visitor has requested. As this is stored using session data this means that when the browser is closed, they're deleted also. For more information on how to enable/disable your browsers cookies, visit the relevant link on the right hand side. If your browser is not shown, please contact the browsers support website.

List of Cookies
Cookie	Name	Purpose
Essential site cookie	ASP.NET_SessionId	Is essential for site functionality and is set by the .net framework. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.
Online forms	firmstep2server firmstep2session AWSELB	These are used to store a session identifier and again are necessary for our online forms to function. The cookie is deleted when you close the browser.
Leisure Bookings	ASPSESSIONIDQSCTDBAC	To create an individual session. It is session based and therefore is only valid until the user closes the browser. Without this cookie the leisure bookings facility would not function correctly.
Accessibility	client vars mode	To improve accessibility for visually impaired users so that they can see the content more clearly.
Google Analytics	_utma _utmb _utmc _utmz	These cookie are used for us to collate data on statistics such as website visits, where the visitors entered the site and the pages they visited.
LocalView	LocalView.LocalViewMockupfc14e8b1-3d4b-4bd3-bff9-eab470f912c4	This cookie is used for the purpose of our mapping facility software and give users the ability to find there nearest range of facilities.
OpenBroxtowe	anon-session session-id	These cookies are necessary for the OpenBroxtowe facility to be able to give you details about your council tax and benefits