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Privacy policy

 
Greenwich Council values your right to personal privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy online. The Council, at all times, endeavours to be open about why it collects, holds and uses any personal information or data submitted via its website by which you can be identified (ie name, address, email) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. This ensures that the information is collected fairly and lawfully, is accurate, adequate, up to date and not held any longer than necessary.

It will not be used by the Council for any other reason other than for the original purpose for which it is being collected, for example, in regards to an online query or transactional service or in order to improve our services. The Council will not sell, trade or rent your information to other third parties.

Find out more about safeguarding the personal information you give to the Council

Find out about our data protection policy

Read about data matching

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We use cookies to monitor visitors to Greenwich Council website. This helps us assess the website's performance and make decisions about its content and layout.
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Security

It must be noted that sending an email or submitting information online cannot be made totally secure and, despite the Council using all reasonable endeavours to protect personal data and/or information, the Council cannot warrant any degree of security.

Securing your data

All web systems used by the Council which require the transfer of sensitive personal data such as payment card details have been placed in a secure environment.

Our security arrangements offer a minimum of 128bit SSL encryption and you can check that the site is secure by checking for any of the following:

  • an 'https://' in the address bar
  • a yellow padlock symbol on the browser
  • or, sometimes, the secure website address will be highlighted in green

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