Privacy Statement & Cookie Policy

When you contact Visit Beccles / Beccles Town Council, hereafter called “The Council”

The information you provide (personal information such as name, address, email address, phone number) will be processed and stored so that it is possible to contact you and respond to your correspondence, advise, provide information, send invoices and receipts relating to service provision.

Your personal information will not be shared with any third party without your prior consent.

The Council – Right to Process Information

GDPR Article 6 (1) (a) (b) and (c) –
Processing is with consent of the data subject
or
Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
or
Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject or to take steps to enter into a contract.

Information Security

The Council has a duty of care to ensure the security of personal data. We make sure that your information is protected from unauthorised access, loss, manipulation, falsification, destruction or unauthorised disclosure. This is done through appropriate technical measures and relevant policies.

We will only keep your data for the purpose it was collected for and only for as long as is necessary, after which it will be deleted or shredded.

Your Rights

Access to Information
You have the right to request access to the information we have on you. You can do this by contacting us by email or post. You will be required to provide proof of identity.

Information Correction
If you believe that the information we have about you is incorrect, you may contact us so that we can update it and keep your data accurate.

Information Deletion
If you required the Council to delete the information about you, please contact us.

Right to Object
If you believe that your data is not being processed for the purpose it has been collected for, you may object, please contact us

Rights Related to Automated Decision Making and Profiling
The Council does not use automated decision making or profiling of personal data.

To Sum Up

In accordance with the law, we only collect a limited amount of information about you that is necessary for correspondence, information and service provision. We do not use profiling, we do not sell or pass your data to third parties. We do not use your data for purposes other than those specified. We make sure your data is stored securely. We delete all information deemed to be no longer necessary. We constantly review our Privacy Policies to keep it up to date in protecting your data.

Cookies on this website

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

A number of our pages use cookies to remember:

  • your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings, font size and language settings
  • if you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won’t be asked again)
  • if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site

Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.

In addition some pages on our website display links to our social media accounts (facebook, twitter, linkedin, instagram, youtube).

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work, but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see https://www.aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Google Analytics
This website uses cookies that are generated using Google Analytics. These cookies are anonymous and are solely used for tracking results using information supplied by your browser when a page is requested.

These cookies are used to collect information about how you and other visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form including the number of visitors, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visit.

For more information on Google Analytics and its Privacy policy click here.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here.