Privacy Statement - How we collect information

1. What is personal information?

2. What we do with your personal information

3. Why do we collect information about you?

4. How we collect information

5. How we use your information

6. Information sharing

7. Detection and prevention of crime

8. Required by law

9. Other public bodies

10. Contractors

11. Statistics and reports

12. Public statements

13. Specific statements

14. CCTV/Webcams

15. How we protect your information

16. Your rights

17. Contact details & advice

18. Changes to this privacy notice

4. How we collect information

Telephone calls, meetings

We do not record or monitor any telephone calls made to us, nor any meetings we may have with you.

Emails

If you email us we may keep a record of your email address and the email for our record keeping.  We suggest that you keep the amount of confidential information you send to us via email to a minimum and use our secure online forms.

Use of Angus Council’s Carnoustie Country website

If you are a user with general public access, the Carnoustie Country website does not store or capture personal information other than a log of your IP address which is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet etc. The system will only record other personal information if you enter it in order to:

  • subscribe to or apply for services that require personal or business information
  • report a fault and give your contact details for us to respond
  • contact us and leave your details for us to respond

We employ cookie technology to help log visitors to our web site. A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a web site and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer’s memory. The information collected is used for the administration of the server and to improve the service provided by the web site. No personal information is collected this way. You can reject the use of cookies but you may be asked for information again, eg to participate in a survey. Further information and how to block cookies is located on our cookies page. This statement only covers the Carnoustie Country website maintained by us and does not cover other websites linked from our site.