Privacy Statement

North East Lincolnshire Council does not capture and store any personal information about individuals who access this Web site, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details via email, or by using an electronic form, or enquiring about any of our services. In these latter cases, the personal data you give North East Lincolnshire Council will be used exclusively for providing you with the information you have requested. We do not pass any of your personal data to outside organisations and/or individuals, except with your express consent.

North East Lincolnshire Council does not use cookies for collecting user information from the site and will not collect any information about you. However, the web site may store a cookie on your computer for operational purposes, but this cookie does not contain personal information or any information which may identify you as an individual. North East Lincolnshire Council only monitors the IP addresses of visitors to assess which pages are the most popular. These IP addresses are not linked to any personal data so all visitors to our site remain anonymous.

This privacy policy only covers North East Lincolnshire Council 's web site at www.nelincs.gov.uk . Links within this site to other web sites are not covered by this policy.

Summary of terms

Browser
Used to locate and display Web pages via a software application. The most popular ones are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Cookie
A message given to a web browser by a web server. The web site may store a cookie on your computer for operational purposes, but this cookie does not contain personal information or any information which may identify you as an individual

IP (Internet Protocol)
All networks connected to the Internet speak IP, the technical standard that 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.

IP address
If you are connected to the Internet you have one, for example it may look something like this 198.184.98.9

Web Server
Delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.