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Privacy statement

Any personal data collected through this website will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. It will be used to deliver the service you have requested. If you use the site to make a complaint about an authority, we will hold the information securely and use it to help us to process your complaint. We may also need to show some of it to others, such as the council, so they can respond to our enquiries.

Site usage information

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a website. The cookies our site uses are "session cookies", which store some of your "preferences" while you move around the site. You can set your computer not to accept cookies. However, if you do this, you will not be able to log in or change your regional preference. Session cookies are deleted when you leave the site. They do not contain any personal information about you, and do not hold any information about which sites you visited before www.lgo.org.uk

Log files
Log files allow us to record visitors’ use of the site. We put together the information from all our visitors, which we use to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information.

Feedback
If you provide feedback on our website we will only use it to develop and improve the site.

Other websites
This privacy statement covers this website. It does not cover links within this site to other websites.

Changes to this privacy statement
If this privacy statement changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Date Updated: 24/11/08