Privacy Policy

This statement covers the services provided by the WSEP website.

The Data Controllers for this website are the WSEP Team.

The purpose of this statement is to inform users of the website, which is managed by WSEP, about what information is collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used, if it is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users' privacy.

Confidentiality and security

Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your personal details will not normally be disclosed to third parties. In some circumstances however, we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfil a request for information. Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.

You have a right to access the personal information we hold about you at any time. If you wish to do this, please put your request in writing to West Sussex Economic Partnership:

4 The Chambers
Chapel Street
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1DL

Email: info@wsep.org.uk

Information we collect from visitors

Feedback
If you provide feedback on the website through our on-line form we will only use this information to develop and improve the site or service specified.

E-mail Comments and questions
If you send an enquiry by e-mail it may not always be possible for the team to provide the information requested directly. In such circumstances we may pass your enquiry to another partnership or local authority so that they can fulfil your information request.

E-mailing WSEP
While all reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure the security of this website and the transmission of these emails, this website assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or interception when emails are transmitted from this website to the WSEP's email system.

Newsletters
If you sign up to receive newsletters we will use the information you give us to provide the newsletter and information you have requested. We will hold the information you have provided for as long as you require access to the service requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel a subscription we will remove you from our mailing list and your details will be deleted from our records.

Site usage information

Cookies
The WSEP site uses cookies for collecting non personal user information from the site; the WSEP site does not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of the website.

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. If you choose not to accept the cookie, this will not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our website.

Although your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, you can specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so that you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie. Alternatively, you can set your computer not to accept any cookie.

Log files
Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. The WSEP Web Team puts together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information about you.

Linking to another site from the WSEP Website
Our website contains links to other sites, mainly those of other partnerships and local authorities, but also to those of other third parties. WSEP is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. You should be aware of this when you leave the WSEP website and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit.

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 that 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.

Last updated July 2007