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Privacy Policy
Your right to privacy is very important to us and we recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner.
We believe this information should only be used to help us provide you with better service. That's why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information.
We will not provide any of your personal information obtained via the web site to other companies or individuals unless required to by law.
Whenever you provide sensitive information, we will ensure all reasonable steps are taken to protect it and we will also take security measures to protect your personal information in storage.
Our web site may provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third party sites.
Information collected by Cheshire fire & Rescue Service will be stored and processed in databases owned solely by Cheshire fire & Rescue Service.
The Cheshire Fire Service website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server. Our log files do not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited.
We do not use cookies for collecting user information from the site and we will not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of the web server.
Other websites linked from this site do not necessarily follow the same policies. Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner's website at http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/dpr/dpdoc.nsf.
Revisions to this policy
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service may revise these terms at any time by updating this posting. You are advised to visit this page from time to time to review the then-current terms because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages on the Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service web site.
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Glossary
Cookie
Message given to a browser program by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, e-mail address and interests. In our case, however, we do not use cookies at all.
IP address
Every machine connecting to the Internet has a four-number address (e.g. 148.8.84.86) which may or may not stay constant between sessions online. Many web users connect indirectly to the Internet via an intermediary (proxy) server
Log files
Every time our web site is accessed an entry is made in the web server's log file. This tells us broadly where an access is coming from, when it was made, which file was requested and whether the request was successful or not. It usually does not allow us to identify individual users. The data is used to assess usage levels and spot technical problems (such as broken pages or web server errors).
Web server
The machine which on which the Cheshire Fire Service website is physically located, which delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.
