Privacy Statement

Please also see East Suffolk Council’s GDPR and Privacy statements – links can be found below:

East Suffolk Council GDPR Statement and Privacy Statement

Personal information

Your personal data is important to this Council. We promise to process your personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act, for legitimate Council purposes only. We will only pass your details to another agency if it is required by law or that agency is relevant to your enquiry.

National fraud initiative and data matching

East Suffolk Council is required by law to protect the public funds it administers. We may share information provided to us with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds, in order to prevent and detect fraud.

Visit East Suffolk Council’s website to find out more about data matching and fraud prevention activities.

Website analysis and statistics

Some information is collected and stored automatically when you visit our site by software we use to help us find out how people use our website. This information does not identify you personally and includes:

• The date and time of your visit and the pages you look at.
• If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website and any website you visit directly from our website.
• Information on the number of times particular search terms are used and the number of failed searches.
• The type of browser and operating system used to access the site.
• The Internet Service Provider and IP address from which you access the site.

We use this information to find out how many people visit our site and what pages they look at. It helps us identify gaps in the information content and also helps identify where we can make improvements to the site. To find out more about our cookies.