This privacy policy only covers the Website of the National Probation Service, Cheshire Area at www.cheshireprobation.org.uk. Links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.
You may contact us with any queries about the site by writing to the Corporate Services Manager at:
or by using the form found on the Feedback page »
You may browse our website to find information about the National Probation Service and in particular, information about the Cheshire Area and the work it does, without disclosing any personal information.
On some pages there are on-line forms by which you may request information or documents from us or pass on comments about our organisation. In these, we ask you to submit your name, email address and some other relevant personal details. This information is only used for the intended purpose and, if we wish to use it for any other purpose, we will ask you first. In submitting information to this site, the act of clicking on the submit button is taken as your explicit consent to use the information as described in this statement.
We may pass your details on to third party organisations in the course of dealing with your request. These third parties are obliged to keep your details securely, will use them only to fulfil the request and will dispose of the information at the appropriate time.
Since no authentication of visitors is provided on this site, we 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 us using the contact above ». Appropriate corrective action will be considered.
We may automatically collect web statistics about your visit to our site. This information is used to help us follow browsing preferences on our site so that we can improve it. These statistics do not contain personal data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
We do not use cookies to store personal data.
We will treat any personal information by which you can be identified (i.e. name, address, email and the like) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. If you have any concerns about this, contact us at the address shown above.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your concern, you can contact the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, Cheshire, CK9 5AF or view the website www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk »
The copyright of all photographs, graphic images and text on this website is owned by the National Probation Service, Cheshire Area.
A software application (programme) such as Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer which is used to locate and display Web pages.
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a web page server. It works like an identification card whose purpose is to tell the server that you have already been to that web page before and are now returning. A cookie cannot be executed as a code or deliver viruses. It can only be read by the server that gave it to you and is unique to your computer. A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them.
All networks connected to the internet speak IP, the technical standard which allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is responsible for making sure messages get from one host to another and that the messages are understood.
If you are connected to the Internet you have one, for example it may look something like this 198.184.98.9
A computer which delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.