Legal Information

Online Privacy Practices

Angus Council is fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act") and ensures that it complies with all protection that the Act affords to you. Further information about the Act is available on the Internet at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. Angus Gold recognises that it must protect your personal privacy while allowing you to enjoy the services which are available for you to access on this website. This policy lets you know the uses which are made of the different types of information which you give to us when you access our website.

Subscription

In some areas of our website (for example when you are entering a competition) we ask you to provide information that will allow us to identify you, this includes, for example, when you register as a user of the website giving us details of your locality and your interests. When we ask for this information from you we may ask you to give us your name, e-mail address and such other identification information that is needed by us to let us supply the services to you. Once we have obtained details from you, we may use those details for:

• Providing to you the services available to you through this website, and contacting you for those purposes, including by email, by text message and by telephone;
• Giving you information about new discounts or services which we are offering and which may be of interest to you, by email and by text message;

Ensuring that we only give you information of the above sort which is relevant to you and your interests.
If you would rather not receive emails and/or text messages from us letting you know about our services and discounts, please inform us by emailing us at CraigA@angus.gov.uk.

Any information of a personal nature that you provide to us will be kept confidential by us and will only be used for the purposes that have been specified above. In particular, we will not disclose or give your information to outside third parties (apart from organisations processing the information on our behalf) unless you have given us your explicit consent. Whenever we intend to give your personal details to such third parties we will ask you to consent first before the information is disclosed.

Cookies

Angus Gold does not use cookies for collecting or storing personal information about you. You should be aware though that we do use a form of temporary cookie called a "session cookie" to allow our website to function effectively. Session cookies only store a "session ID" - a string of random characters - which allows the website to group together and distinguish page requests from your browser during each browsing session. They are not stored on your computer's harddisk and are held in memory, expiring automatically when you close down your browser. Please note though that if for any reason you do not want session cookies to be temporarily stored in the memory of your computer, you should not make any further use of our website.

Further Information on Data Protection and Personal Privacy

For further information from Angus Gold on their data protection and privacy policies, you should contact CraigA@angus.gov.uk. You should note that use of this website is subject to our Terms & Conditions.