Our privacy and cookies policy

This website is owned and maintained by South Oxfordshire District Council. We are committed to complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GPDR) and protecting the privacy of anyone visiting our website or using our services.

This privacy policy describes how we manage and process the personal data that we collect about you or that you provide to us. Personal data means information that can be used to identify you as an individual. We collect information from and about our users so that we can improve the services we offer but we never release identifiable information about users to third parties.

Information we might collect

This website may store or retrieve basic information about your visit mostly through the use of cookies. This information can include, but is not limited to, your IP address, hardware configuration and browser type. We collect this information in order to give you a more personalised experience but it does not usually identify you directly.

We analyse web log files for statistics relating to this website, such as which parts of our website end users are visiting and how long they have spent there. We use this information in order to improve our website content, plan website enhancements, and measure overall website effectiveness.

In certain areas of this website, such as our contact form, we ask you to provide us with some basic personal information. If you submit a request for further information from us, we will only use the information that you submit. The data that we collect is private and used only to deal with your enquiry. We will never sell or pass on this information to any third parties.

To find out more about how the council holds, uses and stores your personal data, please visit South Oxfordshire District Council’s website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Which cookies do we use on this website?

We use the following Google Analytics on this website: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz.

These cookies 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 which pages they visited.

Read Google’s privacy policy

Click on the link provided for an overview of privacy at Google.

Managing your preferences

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.