Our privacy and cookies policy

This website is owned and maintained by South Oxfordshire District Council. We are committed to complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GPDR) and protecting the privacy of anyone visiting our website or using our services.

This privacy policy describes how we manage and process the personal data that we collect about you or that you provide to us. Personal data means information that can be used to identify you as an individual. We collect information from and about our users so that we can improve the services we offer but we never release identifiable information about users to third parties.

Information we might collect

This website may store or retrieve basic information about your visit mostly through the use of cookies. This information can include, but is not limited to, your IP address, hardware configuration and browser type. We collect this information in order to give you a more personalised experience but it does not usually identify you directly.

We analyse web log files for statistics relating to this website, such as which parts of our website end users are visiting and how long they have spent there. We use this information in order to improve our website content, plan website enhancements, and measure overall website effectiveness.

In certain areas of this website, such as our contact form, we ask you to provide us with some basic personal information. If you submit a request for further information from us, we will only use the information that you submit. The data that we collect is private and used only to deal with your enquiry. We will never sell or pass on this information to any third parties.

To find out more about how the council holds, uses and stores your personal data, please visit South Oxfordshire District Council’s website.