Data Protection
Tendring District Council - Data Controller
Tendring District Council is committed to protecting your privacy rights as a resident or visitor and when you use our services.
To comply with Data Protection legislation, the Council is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The detail of this registration can be viewed by searching the public register on the ICO website (www.ico.org.uk ) for ‘Tendring District Council’ or downloading the certificate here.
Please be aware that the Electoral Registration Officer and the Returning Officer for Tendring have separate privacy notices.
We have to tell you what processing of your personal information we will carry out and this privacy notice explains how we use your information.
We have a Data Protection Officer to ensure that we respect your rights and follow the law. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
If you have any concerns or questions about how we look after your personal information or wish to exercise any of Your Rights, please contact:-
The Data Protection Officer
Tendring District Council
Town Hall
Station Road
Clacton on Sea
Essex CO15 1SE
01255 686060
This website may include links to third-party websites and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
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Download the Data Protection and Privacy notice as a pdf document
Cookies
To make this website easier to use, we sometimes place small text files on your device (for example your iPad or laptop) called cookies. Most big websites do this too.
They improve things by:
- remembering the things you’ve chosen while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
- remembering data you’ve given (for example, your address) so you don’t need to keep entering it
- measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs
Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish.
You may see a pop up appear on our site asking you to either allow or disallow cookies.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.uk/
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website, eg payments. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like paying a bill, cannot be provided.
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
|---|---|
JSESSIONID | These cookies are from our secure payments, forms and public access sites and are essential for the correct functioning of the applications. They are normally deleted when you close your browser. They contain no data that could be used by other web sites or in the future by this web site. |
has_js
SESS....... | The cookie records whether the user has javascript enabled which can help the site present information appropriately. This temporary session cookie is deleted as soon as you close your browser. |
| boost-gzip | This cookie is used by our Drupal content management system to control page caching to improve the speed of our website - no personal data is recorded |
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors to to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
|---|---|
_ga | These are cookies from Google Analytics and are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
| nmstat | This cookie is used to help record the visitor's use of the site. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site. This cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognise the browser when a visitor reads a page. It contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. It expires 1000 days after last visit/ |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is used purely to track the sequence of pages a visitor looks at during a visit to the site. It is deleted when the visitor leaves the website. |
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your IP address) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instances a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services that you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
| Cookie Names | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ASP.NetSessionId | These are unique ids given to every user to helps the website maintain session information for the Microsoft .NET framework that runs our website. These cookies are deleted as soon as you leave the Council website. |
CivicShowCookieIcon CivicAllowCookies | These cookies control the cookie pop up icon and remember whether you have said you'll allow our site's cookies or not. |
| NID HSID APISID PREF SID | These cookies are set by Google. We embed videos from YouTube (part of Google) using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube's embedding videos information page. |
| maps.arcgis | This cookie is used by our online mapping facility to store the last viewed map extent. This saves users from having to repeatedly navigate to the same place. No personal information is stored - just a map extent and spatial reference. |
Disclaimer
Whilst every care has been taken in the compilation of this website, and every attempt made to present up-to-date and accurate information, we cannot guarantee that inaccuracies will not occur. Tendring District Council will not be held responsible for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of any inaccuracy or error within these pages.
Some links from our site lead to pages maintained by other organisations. These are provided purely for your convenience, and do not imply that Tendring District Council endorses or supports those organisations, the information on their pages, or their products or services in any way. Additionally, no responsibility is assumed nor liability accepted by Tendring District Council for the contents of its pages.
If you discover any information on our pages which you believe to be inaccurate or inappropriate, please inform the contact given on the page concerned, if any, or contact webmaster@tendringdc.gov.uk.
Unless stated otherwise (i.e. that you are viewing information over a secure connection) information transmitted over the internet is not secure and we cannot accept responsibility for misuse of information intercepted in this way.
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, all of these pages are copyright protected. ©Copyright Tendring District Council. All rights reserved.
Content held within the Tendring District Council domain may not be copied / distributed in any form or via any other medium without the written consent of Tendring District Council.
All graphics/imagery are the property of Tendring District Council or its business partners (unless acknowledged separately) and may not be downloaded / modified or distributed in any shape or form without permission.
If you have any questions regarding copyright issues within the Tendring District Council domain then please email us at webmaster@tendringdc.gov.uk
Copyright Infringement Issues
If you are aware that Tendring District Council property is being used/copied other than for the intended purpose of serving the Tendring District Council domain please submit your report to : webmaster@tendringdc.gov.uk
Useful Links
Information Commissioner's Office