General

  • The Council Company Network (CCN) has a commitment to protecting your privacy and respecting the confidentiality of information you provide when you visit the CCN Website . At the same time, the network seeks to ensure that you obtain value from the Website and from the services that you may want to receive.
  • The CCN is registered as a data controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (‘the 2018 Act’). The CCN upholds the relevant data protection principles and processes all personally identifiable information about you (“personal data”) in accordance with the GDPR and the 2018 Act and other relevant legislation. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect about you when you visit the CCN’s Website and how we may use it.
  • You should read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with the CCN’s Website terms and conditions of use, of which this Privacy Policy forms a part. By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you are consenting to the CCN’s processing of your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The CCN will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on the CCN’s Website.

Information collected

  • It is possible to use the CCN’s Website without providing any personal data. However, the CCN may automatically collect certain information about you when you use the Website, including by using “cookies” (see below), such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer and the dates and times of your visits.
  • In some areas of the CCN’s Website you may be asked for personal data, such as your name, address and e-mail details, to make your site visit a more rewarding experience for you or to contact you afterwards. This might be where you complete an online form requesting a copy of a prospectus, book a place on an open day, request information about a job vacancy, or subscribe to an online newsletter.
  • In some other areas of the CCN’s Website, where you can register as an online user or membership, you may need to supply further personal data.

Use of information collected

  • The CCN holds and processes personal data collected about you through the CCN’s Website by using password-protected computers and university computing systems. The CCN retains this data for a reasonable period or for as long as the law requires.
  • The CCN will not disclose any of your personal data collected to any third party, unless required to do so by law, other than in circumstances set out in this policy. There may be circumstances in which the CCN asks you to agree to the disclosing of your personal data to certain third parties, or transferring it outside the United Kingdom. However, before transferring your personal data in these circumstances, the CCN will seek to ensure appropriate arrangements are in place to protect your privacy.
  • The CCN may use personal data collected from you by means of the CCN’s Website to manage and monitor use of the Website. Otherwise, the CCN will only use personal data for the purposes for which it was collected, unless you gave consent to use it for other stated purposes. For example, if you supply your name and address so the CCN can register you as a member and send you update information, and, at the same time, you agree we may send you similar information in the future, we may subsequently invite you to an event.
  • If at any time you want to withdraw any permission you have given us to provide you with services, or to use your personal data in any other way, you can do so by contacting the info@councilcompanynetwork.org.uk

Cookies

  • When you visit the CCN’s Website, your computer may be issued with a small file (a “cookie”) for the purposes of managing and improving the services on the Website, even if you do not provide us with any personal data. Cookies recognise you, by a unique number allocated to you, when you return to the Website and may personalise your return, for example by customising Webpages based on areas of the Website that were previously of interest to you. If you previously provided personal data, then cookies may enable the automatic completion of your name and other information when, for example, you complete an online form.
  • Cookies also enable the CCN to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics to help understand how the Website is used, and so how to make improvements. It is not possible for cookies to read personal information on your computer or to find out any personal information about you. You can refuse to accept cookies by modifying the settings in your browser, but this may limit the functionality of Webpages on, or your access to, the Website.
  • There are two types of cookie that you may encounter when using the University’s website.

First party cookies

First party cookies: these are our own cookies, set and controlled by us.

Third party cookies

Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Google Analytics and YouTube have their own cookies, which are controlled by them. On the University’s website these include:

Subject Access Requests

  • Under the GDPR, you have the right to know if the CCN holds any personal data about you. If the CCN holds any personal data about you, you are entitled to a description of the data, to be told for what purposes the data are processed, and the people, or classes of people, to whom the data may have been disclosed.
  • A request for a copy of information held about you is a “Subject Access Request”. To make a subject access request, you should contact info@councilcompanynetwork.org.uk  
  • The CCN is entitled to, and does, charge a fee for providing this information.

Security

  • This Website, and the CCN’s computer systems, has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of personal data.

Other Websites

  • This Website may contain links to other Websites outside the CCN’s control not covered by this privacy policy. The CCN is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked Websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. There is no guarantee these links will work all of the time and there is no control over the availability of the linked pages. The CCN takes no responsible for the privacy policies of any linked Websites.

The Data Controller and further information

Council Company Network (CCN) is the Data Controller for this personal data.

Data Protection Declaration

Salesforce Personalisation is a client-based personalisation tool. Based on usage analysis, this solution allows personalised content to be displayed without identifying you as a person.

The contents displayed on this website are optimised for you by collecting and processing your usage behaviour, so that you receive contents tailored to your interests. For this purpose, a cookie is stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer’s hard drive and enable recognition, but do not allow Salesforce Personalisation to identify you personally. These cookies can be used, for example, to see whether you have already visited a certain website in the past. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can set your browser so that no cookies are stored or explicit consent is required before a cookie is set. Furthermore, you can revoke at any time the use of data by cookies which have already been stored. Please note that disabling cookies may lead to restrictions in the use of our website.

For the personalisation measures described above, this website uses Salesforce Personalisation, your data will be processed on the basis of your consent, art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Storage period: Salesforce Personalisation stores the data processed from the cookie for 2 years.

You can also stop the collection by setting an opt-out cookie.