Hassocks, Keymer and Clayton Neighbourhood Watch - Privacy Policy

Information we collect

In common with many other websites, this site hassocksnhw.org.uk collects and logs visitor information.  The type of information we gather is:

1. Web page accesses to all pages via a page counter system
2. The day/date/time of visits
3. Visitor's IP (Internet Protocol) address
4. Visitor's 'User Agent', namely operating system and web browser type
5. Visitor's screen resolution and colour bit depth
6. Referrer - the site the visitor was on previously
7. Keywords/phases used in a Search Engine to find this site
8. Visitor's ISP (Internet Service Provider)

Purposes

We use the statistics generated above only to analyze general traffic patterns for site improvement purposes.  No unique identifier information, such as your e-mail address, can be obtained.  We use the page counter to determine page popularity in order to prioritise page updates to the more popular pages and to improve and promote the less visited pages.  Peak visit patterns are determined to plan updates for maximum audience capture.  Visitor computer statistics, such as user agent and screen resolution, is used  to ensure the site pages are constructed to be compatible with the majority of computer systems visitors are using.  The referrer and keyword/phases information is used to determine which search terms are being used to find the site for ongoing Search Engine Marketing purposes.  The IP address and ISP is used to check for any problems, such as the site being cached by particular ISPs and visitors still seeing old pages rather than newer ones.

Distribution

The site statistics are used mainly by the webmaster for site improvement and monitoring.  They are also made available if requested to certain key Neighbourhood Watch personnel, together with the local Crime Prevention Co-ordinator and local Beat Officer.  They are not seen by any other party, unless we have to provide them by law.  We keep the statistics for an indeterminate time for comparison purposes.

E-mails and site forms

Information that you choose to provide via e-mail or via a site form is only kept locally for the time it takes to respond.  All e-mails and form mails are then archived on external media in case of future queries.  No copies are kept on any web server or mail server and only the admin of this website receives and views the e-mails or form results, unless we have to provide them by law.

1x1 pixel GIF images

We use 1x1 pixel images to count web page accesses.  The only other uses on this site is for page content positioning and to prevent our layout tables from collapsing in certain browsers, ie older versions of Netscape.  Image loading can be turned off, in Internet Explorer go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced and scroll the list to Multimedia and set Show pictures as required.  For other browser types, see your browsers help menu.  Please bear in mind that preventing image loading will stop ALL site images from showing, modern browsers such as Firefox afford improved image control.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy please
the webmaster.

Cookies

Cookies are small files placed on your computer when you visit the site.  These are then read by the site on subsequent visits.  At present we only use cookies on this site to:

1. Determine the date/time of your last visit in order to display a welcome message containing the date/time of your last visit
2. Prevent repeat visits to pages in a browser session from distorting site statistics
3. Determine unique/repeat visits
4. Remember a visitor's preferred style sheet upon their return

If you use an up-to-date browser you can control whether to allow or disallow cookies.  In Internet Explorer 6 go to Tools>Internet Options>Privacy>Advanced and use the radio buttons and checkboxes as required.  For other browser types, see your browsers help menu.  Internet Explorer can view a website's P3P Privacy Policy (View>Privacy Report) and Netscape 7 can be set-up to use a websites P3P Privacy Policy automatically* depending on your Acceptance Policy settings.  See your browser help menu for further information.  Modern browsers such as Firefox afford greater cookie control and some quality firewalls can control cookies as well as provide further privacy settings.

*We do not currently provide a machine-readable P3P Privacy Policy.  We intend to review this in the future.

JavaScript

We use Java Scripting on this site.  The only privacy issue is in our use of it to call up the visitor logging system which records items 2-8 in the section 'Information we collect' above.  You can disable JavaScript from running, in Internet Explorer 6 go to Tools>Internet Options>Security>Custom Level and scroll down the list to Scripting and set as required.  For other browser types, see your browsers help menu.  More modern browsers such as Firefox afford greater JavaScript control.

JavaScript is also used on on this site for:

• Welcome message on home page
• Current date/time display on home page
• User initiated pop-up windows - orderform, roads and rats pages
• Pop-up window closing from link
• Print command orderform link on orderform
• Formmail validation
• Image map rollovers on links page
• E-mail address masking from spam harvesters
• To set a cookie for style sheet preference

If you do disable JavaScript some site functionality may be lost.

Site content

All content within this site is provided in good faith on an 'as is' basic without any warranty of any kind, express or implied.  We do not make any guarantees of any kind and users of the site do so entirely at their own risk.  See the disclaimer page.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to external websites that may be linked to from this site and over which we have no control.
All external links from this site are designed to open in a new window.

Revised November 2006