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The IPCC Privacy Policy reflects the Commission’s commitment to high ethical standards and to maintaining an open and honest system of local governance. The Policy is designed to assist understanding of how the IPCC, collects, uses and safeguards the personal information you provide, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using this site.
The IPCC does not capture and store any personal information about individuals who access this website, except where you voluntarily choose to provide your details via email or by completing an online form.
The IPCC will use the information you have provided only for the purposes of processing your enquiry. The IPCC will not pass on information to third parties except where it is necessary in the proper performance of its functions under the Police Reform Act 2002.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the IPCC, by email to enquiries@ipcc.gov.uk
or by mail to:
IPCC90 High HolbornLondonWC1V 6BHUnited Kingdom
In this section you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit the IPCC website and how to reject or delete those 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 at www.direct.gov.uk/managingcookies.
The IPCC will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by the IPCC website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the IPCC website.
If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
To totally opt-out of our suppliers collecting any data regarding your interaction on IPCC sites, please refer to section below.
The IPCC uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
Google Analytics sets cookies on the IPCC.gov.uk website pages to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage.
Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
By using the IPCC site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
For more information on the cookie set by Google Analytics, including information on how to opt out please go to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
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The IPCC have a YouTube channel and embed our videos into our website using YouTube’s embed code.
You can find out more about the YouTube cookies on their website.
To find out more about the YouTube use of cookies pleases visit
http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy
You can opt out of certain YouTube cookies. Information can be found on the page above.
Google Analytics
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Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage.
This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.
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Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
Click on the following link to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
IPCC Online secure forms
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The IPCC use a secure website with InfoPath forms to ensure that forms recieved from the public are secure.
These online forms require the use of cookies and may not work if you choose to delete, opt out or decline all cookies from the IPCC website.
More information can be found on the Twitter Privacy page
http://twitter.com/privacy
This page was last updated on 13 June 2011
If this privacy policy 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.
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