Access and use of the Central Bedfordshire Together website which features these terms and conditions, constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions. They take effect from the date on which you first use this website.

Central Bedfordshire Together strives to ensure that the information published on its website is accurate and reliable. However, we will not accept responsibility for any loss or inconvenience caused by reliance on any inaccurate information found on the site.

The Central Bedfordshire Together website contains links to other external websites, which we hope are useful to visitors as a way of finding out further or related information on a subject. Central Bedfordshire Together cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of material on linked websites, and does not endorse the views expressed within them, nor do we endorse any views expressed by individuals or groups, although we are providing these links in the spirit of partnership working. We cannot guarantee that links to external websites will work all of the time.

Data Protection

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, the Central Bedfordshire Together website is a data processor. The majority of the content contained within the website is submitted by partner organisations.

For any data submitted to the website by a member of the public, the Central Bedfordshire Together website is considered to be the data controller, and data will be dealt with in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Privacy

Privacy Statement

If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the Central Bedfordshire Together website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user’s IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server. IP addresses are not linked to any personal data so all visitors to our site remain anonymous.

We will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you on an online form or by email. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential.

This privacy statement only covers the Central Bedfordshire Together website. This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites.

Links to third party websites

This site may provide links to third party websites that we believe may be of use or interest to you. We do not control or vet these third party sites; and our privacy policy does not cover those third party sites. We advise you to read the privacy statement applicable to each third party site you visit, and we will not accept any responsibility for or liability in respect of either the contents or your use of these third party sites.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a IP address that the site uses to track the pages you’ve visited and traffic patterns, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Google Analytics tracking service uses cookies in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users, and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We do not use cookies for collecting personal user information. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set the security settings of your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.

Website availability

We aim to make this website is available for at least 99% of the time, but ultimately this is out of our control. However, we reserve the right to suspend the website at any time to perform essential maintenance, change details and to remove any inaccurate or unauthorised material.

Copyright

Re-using public sector information

Content contained in or linked to the Central Bedfordshire Together website is the property of the respective data owners, and includes information which may be subject to Crown Copyright.

In the case of information specifically produced or owned by Central Bedfordshire Together, permission is granted to electronically copy and print, in hard copy, portions of the site solely for private or educational use (within the classroom), provided that no changes are made to the material and that Central Bedfordshire Together is acknowledged as the provider of the information. In all other cases, or if you are in any doubt, permission to copy material on the website will need to be sought from the editortogether@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk of Central Bedfordshire Together.

Information requests

Information contained on the Central Bedfordshire Together website is managed by Central Bedfordshire Together and its editor. The website is compiled through collaboration of a number of Central Bedfordshire Together partners. All information requests should be sent in the first instance to the Central Bedfordshire Together editortogether@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk, who will then forward to the request on to the appropriate data owner for response directly to the original requestor.

Comments & Feedback

We always welcome your comments and feedback. Please contact the editortogether@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk in the first instance.