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Privacy Policy
The Home Office reserves the right to gather information
relating to site usage. Any information gathered is primarily
for internal use to allow us to refine and improve our customer
service. Where disclosure of information to a third party
is likely we will, where possible, endeavour to ensure that
this is clearly indicated. This does not affect your statutory
rights.
This site uses an online measuring package called SiteStat
which uses cookies to identify repeat visits. Cookies are
pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain
a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie
directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end
of your session. Cookies used by the Home Office contain no
personal information about the user, nor does our website
elicit or store any information from users other than the
Internet Protocol address of the computer used to access the
site. Cookies on this site may safely be turned off by users
without affecting how pages are displayed.
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Data Protection Act 1998
This Act requires that we inform you that your feedback by
email may include information about you (this is called 'personal
data' in the Act) and that we are a 'data controller' for
the purposes of the Act.
We, the Home Office, will process the data about your specific
feedback, suggestions, or problem reporting about this website.
We will also process data about you for the purposes of making
general enquiries to the Home Office which are not related
to this Website.
We may disclose this data to any person or organisation for
the purposes for which it was collected or where the Act allows
disclosure. As a data subject, you have the right to ask for
a copy of the data and to ask for any inaccuracies to be corrected.
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