Information about how Western Bay uses cookies and protects any information that you give Western Bay when you use this website.
Western Bay is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Western Bay may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
Name
Contact information including email address (you can unsubscribe from emails as you receive them)
Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
Other information relevant to surveys
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping
To provide a service to you
We may use the information to improve our products and services
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.
The following table describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage.
If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete cookies after having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)
Google Analytics
We use this to understand how the site is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is all anonymous and we don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
_utma -determines the number of unique visitors to the site and expires after 2 years
_utmb – this works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our site and expires after 30 minutes
_utmc – this works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser and expires when you close your browser
_utmz – provides information about how you reached the site (eg from another website or a search engine) and expires after 6 months
ga_nextpage_params – stores data to be sent to Google on the next page you request and expireswhen you close your browser
More information on how to reject or delete these can be found at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
Email tracking
Some emails we track at an individual level to understand whether the user has opened and clicked on the email. We use this information to understand open and click rates on our emails to try and improve them. If you want to be sure that none of your email activity is tracked then you should opt out of the council emails by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of one of these emails.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have followed these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Social media
On our pages you will see links to social media sites which may include buttons to share or bookmark the web pages. There are buttons for social media sites and sharing sites like YouTube and others. In order to implement these links, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside Western Bay. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on the Western Bay site. If you click on any of these buttons, these sites will be registering that action and may use that information. In some cases these sites will be registering the fact that you are visiting Western Bay, and the specific pages you are on, even if you don’t click on the button if you are logged into their services, like Google. You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
External web services
We use a number of external web services on the Western Bay site, mostly to display content within our web pages. For example, to display slideshows we sometimes use SlideShare; to show videos we may use Vimeo and YouTube. This is not an exhaustive or complete list of the services we use, or might use in the future, when embedding content, but these are the most common. As with the social buttons we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your usage of this embedded content. If you are not logged in to these external services then they will not know who you are but are likely to gather anonymous usage information e.g. number of views, plays, loads etc.
