Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use this website, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. “Personally identifying information” is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.

Data collection

  • We collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit the website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services. Here is the information we logged when you accessed this page:
    38.107.179.231 - - [06/Feb/2012:01:21:00 +0300] "GET /page/privacy HTTP/1.1" 200 - - " "CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)"
  • When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.
  • If you wish to use the advanced features of this site (e.g. creating reports) you will need to create an account. When creating an account we will ask you for personally identifying information. This information is used to create your personal access to the site, and to contact you in the course of using the site.

Cookies

  • Upon your visit to the website, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A ‘cookie’ is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. The cookie we set does not contain any personally identifiable information and is deleted when you quit your web browser. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You must set your browser to accept cookies if you want to log in and use the advanced features of this website.

Web Statistics

  • We use Google Analytics to analyse how users access the site. Google also sets cookies that do not contain any personally identifiable information. This information is used to provide more relevant services to users. We do this by placing a piece of code on each web page. This provides statistical site usage information relating solely to Internet usage behaviour. For more information please read Google’s Privacy Policy.

Information sharing

  • We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances:
    • We have your consent.
    • We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
    • We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect our rights, property or safety, our clients or the public.
  • We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United Kingdom or any other country in which we or our agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
  • In the event of a transfer of ownership, such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Information security

  • We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
  • We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services and to help you.
  • We do not store highly sensitive information (e.g. passwords) as plain text.

Access rights

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have (subject to certain exemptions) the right to access the personal data that is held about you. The Act includes all computer records and limited categories of manual records. We only store computer records. Please log into your account and revisit this page to find out more information.

Warning – attempting to obtain personal data to which you are not entitled may be an offence under the Data Protection Act.

Links

  • The sites linked to are developed by people over whom we exercise no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
  • The website may present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve the quality of the website.

Changes to this Policy

Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect most changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time.

This checklist has been replaced

All planning applications received from 13 July 2011 requiring the submission of a checklist at Validation stage must include a new version of the checklist.

Further information is available from the Brighton & Hove Sustainability Checklist website.

This checklist will remain online to allow existing users to reference their existing projects. New accounts and projects can no longer be created.