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Privacy policy

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:

IPCC
90 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6BH
United Kingdom

What information does the IPCC collect?

When you visit this site you may provide two types of information
  • Personal information you choose to provide that is collected on an individual basis e.g. any enquiry forms that you complete and through any e-mails that you send
  • Information that is collected automatically on an aggregate basis as you and others browse the site.

Personal information you choose to provide

The IPCC collects the following information from visitors: feedback (through emails), questions about the IPCC, and applications for careers.

How do we use the information you provide to us?

In areas that require you to submit personal information such as subscribing to a news bulletin, the information allows the IPCC to send on-going news and announcements to you by email.
The IPCC also uses the aggregate information about visitors' site usage patterns to enable us to see how popular different parts of the site are with visitors, helping decisions on how best to further develop the site.

Changes to this privacy policy

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 the IPCC collects, how it is used, and under what circumstances, if any, it is shared with other parties.

Access to your information

If you wish to see the records of any correspondence you have sent to the IPCC, or if you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact the IPCC by emailing enquiries@ipcc.gov.uk

Cookies

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.

How to control and delete cookies

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.

Third party cookies

The IPCC uses a number of suppliers who also set cookies on its websites on its behalf. Services such as YouTube and Twitter may require the use of cookies in order to view IPCC content.

Google Analytics

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

 

List of cookies used on the IPCC website

​Website ​Cookie name ​Purpose ​More information
​YouTube

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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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Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)

Expires: 6 months

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 will be available shortly.
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​More information can be found on the Twitter Privacy page

http://twitter.com/privacy

​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.

If you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us via the general enquiry form.