The legal bit

Website Disclaimer

This Disclaimer sets out important information about www.horseheath.info (“Website”). Please read it carefully as it affects your rights and liabilities under the law. If you do not agree with the Disclaimer, please do not use the Website. If you have any questions about this Disclaimer, please contact admin@horseheath-pc.gov.uk

This Website is provided to you for your personal use subject to this Disclaimer. By using the Website you agree to be bound by this Disclaimer.

We may update this Disclaimer from time to time for legal or regulatory reasons or to allow the proper operation of the Website. Any changes will be notified to you via a suitable announcement on the Website. The changes will apply to the use of the Website after we have given you notice. If you do not wish to accept the new Disclaimer you should not continue to use the Website. If you continue to use the Website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Disclaimer.

Intellectual property

The content of the Website is protected by copyright, trademarks, database right and other intellectual property rights. You may retrieve and display the content on the Website on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disk (but not on a server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on the Website without written permission from admin@horseheath-pc.gov.uk

Availability of the Website

We cannot promise that the Website will be fault-free. If a fault occurs with the Website you should report it to admin@horseheath-pc.gov.ukand we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we can. Your access to the Website may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new content. We will attempt to restore access as soon as we reasonably can.

Liability

The Website provides content from other internet sites or resources and while the Company tries to ensure that material included on the Website is correct, reputable and of high quality, it does not make any warranties or guarantees in relation to that content. If the Company is informed of any inaccuracies in the material on the Website we will attempt to correct the inaccuracies as soon as we reasonably can.

If we are in breach of this Disclaimer, we will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result and to the extent that they are a foreseeable consequence of both of us at the time you use the Website. Our liability shall not in any event include business losses such as lost data, lost profits or business interruption.

This clause 4 shall not limit or affect our liability if something we do negligently causes death or personal injury.

General

We may collect information about you. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy (below). This Disclaimer will be subject to the laws of England and Wales. If you want to take court proceedings, you must do so within the United Kingdom.

We make no promise that the materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom, and accessing the Website from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access the Website from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Horseheath Parish Council takes the privacy of your information very seriously. This policy explains how and for what purposes we use the information collected about you via www.horseheath.info (referred to below as the “Site”). Please read this privacy policy carefully.

By using the Site and any services we offer via the Site, you are agreeing to be bound by this policy in respect of the information collected about you via this Site.

If you have any queries about the policy, please get in touch with us admin@horseheath-pc.gov.uk and we will do our best to answer your questions.

Personal information collected

We will only collect information provided by you via email or through the business directory.

Use of this information

This information will primarily be used for the purposes you supply it to us, e.g. to respond to your queries or to advertise your business on our website.

We may also use this information to:

  • notify you of updates to our Site;
  • carry out marketing analysis and make general improvements to our Site;
  • obtain your views or comments on the Site; and
  • contact the winners of our competitions and to help us plan other promotional activity.
Sharing this information

We will not disclose any of your personal information without your permission unless we are required by law to do so (for example, if required to do so by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime).

Information automatically collected from your computer

Log files/IP addresses: When you visit the Site our web server automatically records your IP address. This IP address is not linked to any of your personal information. We use IP addresses to help us administer the Site and to collect demographic information for aggregation purposes.

We may also gather other non-personal information (from which we cannot identify you) such as the type of your internet browser which we use to provide you with a more effective service.

Cookies

When you visit the Site we may store some information (commonly known as a “cookie”) on your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means that they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Passwords and credit card numbers are not stored in cookies. A cookie helps you get the best out of the Site and helps us to provide you with a more customised service. We use cookies to track how our Site is used and to improve and update our content.

You can block or erase cookies from your computer if you want to (your browser’s help screen or manual should tell you how to do this.

Linking to third-party websites

We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our Site and recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.
In addition, if you linked to this Site from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.

Contact us

The Website is owned and operated by Horseheath Parish Council.

If at any time you would like to contact us with your views about our disclaimer or privacy practices, or with any enquiry relating to this Site or your personal information, you can do so by sending an email to us at admin@horseheath-pc.gov.uk

Last update: 13 November 2023