Carlisle City Council's Privacy Policy

Carlisle City Council respects the privacy of all site visitors and subsequently complies with all statutory data protection provisions applicable to England and Wales. The information you provide will be used by us to make improvements to Carlisle City Council services. Information communicated via the Internet could be detected by third parties and any information you send to us is at your own risk.

We use cookies only for identifying returning users, we will not collect any information about you except that specifically identified below.

This privacy policy only covers the Website at www.carlisle.gov.uk links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.

Where visitors may submit information via forms etc, in doing so they are deemed to have consented to the collection, processing and storage of that information.

Information submitted will be stored by the webmaster as an e-mail message and used to process any requests, it will be retained for a reasonable period. Where a business transaction is then enacted commercial records may be retained for up to seven years.

The processing of information collected via this site is not registered under the Data Protection Act, however the principles of fair processing will be applied and should you have any concern regarding collection, processing, storage or disclosure of information submitted via this Website please contact the Council.

As any Website is potentially available in many countries it is possible that information submitted to this site will be transmitted via servers and networks that are outside the UK.

In submitting information to this site the act of clicking on the submit button is taken as explicit consent to use of the information as described in this statement.

Since no authentication of visitors is provided on this site the Council cannot be held responsible for any acts of impersonation and will assume all information submitted is genuine unless there is reason to doubt its authenticity. Should you suspect that a false entry has been made using your identity please advise the Council and appropriate corrective action will be considered.