PRIVACY STATEMENT

GENERAL
This privacy statement sets out how Monmouthshire County Council & Newport City Council, ("the Operator") complies with European Union data protection requirements. This applies to the entire web site. Any changes to these policies will be posted on the news page.

The Operator is committed to respecting your privacy. We have structured our web site so that, in general, you can visit the website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us with any information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. For your protection, the National Assembly for Wales are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and have given all appropriate notifications to the Information Commissioner.

WHAT WE COLLECT
We collect the following information: · Where you order products or subscribe as a News letter member of The Wye Valley and Vale Usk, we will collect your name, contact and billing information, transaction and credit/debit card information. We may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experiences with our products, and contact preferences in order to provide you with further correspondence about our products and services. Some pages use cookies, a data analysis technique.

HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of text which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, your browser adds that text in a small file. A cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. For example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easier to shop, by allowing you to place things into a shopping basket; the basket itself is not the cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your basket versus others in use at the same time. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our web site in order to tailor it to customer needs and to assist in the process of ordering goods online. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better web site, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. This practice is strictly in force. We know that people have concerns about cookies, but we believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. You may set your web browser (Microsoft internet explorer or Netscape navigator) to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contain cookies - those files are stored as part of your internet browser.