Privacy and Cookies
Privacy
For general details about protection of data processed by the information authority, please see Data Protection.
the information authority website, with the exception of any registration, contact or subscription services and discussion facilities does not capture or store personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address (the Internet address of your computer) to give us an idea of which part of our website is visited and how long is spent there.
If you register to receive updates, your information will be held on a secure server and the data will not be shared with any organisations outside government. It will be used only to provide you with email updates on the topics you have requested or postal information if you request that service. If you contact us with an enquiry or respond online to a consultation exercise, your data will only be used to manage your enquiry or facilitate the analysis of consultation responses and will be deleted subsequently.
This privacy statement only covers the information authority website, subsequent sub-sites of that domain and those other sites specifically referred to in this statement. Other websites linked to or from the information authority website are not covered by this privacy statement.
Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task.
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested.
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast.
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them"
Our use of cookies
Cookies for improving service:
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: Randomly generated string of letters and numbers
Expires: At end of session
Name: WT_FPC
Typical content: Randomly generated string of letters and numbers
Expires: 29 May 2021
