Privacy / Disclaimer

The Forest of Dean District Council has made every effort to provide information which is accurate and up to-date. However The Forest of Dean District Council cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, damage or inconvenience which may result from use of this site.

External Links

Our web pages may offer links to other websites when appropriate in good faith. The Forest of Dean District Council is not responsible for the content of external internet sites and will not accept liability for the display of incorrect information or for any adverse incidents which may arise after linking to those sites.

Virus Issues

The Council makes every effort to virus check the files available for downloading on this site. The Council cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage which may happen from the use of downloaded material. We recommend that users re-check all downloaded material with their own virus check software.

Copyright

Copyright © The Forest of Dean District Council
These pages, unless otherwise stated, are copyright protected. Reproduction of this material in any form is forbidden without the written permission of The Forest of Dean District Council. Intellectual property rights in some of this material may be held by individual authors. The Forest of Dean District Council logo cannot be used in any form without written permission

The Ordnance Survey mapping included in this web-site is provided by Forest of Dean District Council or Multimap under licence from the Ordnance Survey for the purpose of providing public information. Persons viewing this mapping should contact Ordnance Survey for advice if they wish to use the mapping for their own use. Enquiries can be made at their website www.ordsvy.gov.uk

Cookies

A cookie is a small file that is downloaded onto your machine when you first visit a website. This cookie enables the site identify your web browser and track its activities on that site. A cookie does not reveal any personally identifiable information that you have not otherwise disclosed. Cookies make the interaction between visitor and website much faster and smoother by helping to identify previous site settings you may have chosen with specific colour schemes and page layouts or information you may have added for registration details. Cookies also help with storing information regarding shopping carts and e-commerce.

There are two types of cookies - Session and Persistent:

• Session cookies expire at the end of the session (When you close your browser). The session cookie is then deleted from your PC.
• Persistent cookies do not expire at the end of the session and remain on your PC to assist with a return visit.

Generally website browsers automatically accept website cookies, but most will allow you to control how your browser interacts with these by allowing you to accept certain ones that you feel may be necessary for your visit or by rejecting all. If you do chose to reject certain cookies you may lose certain functionality and features that these cookies help to provide.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
 

Where cookies are used on our website

We have a number of cookies that are set on our main website and via plugin services. These are detailed below :
 

Fdean website
 

Name: CFID, CFTOKEN, NQSTAGGING – Persistent Cookies
Name: PUBLIC_NEWVISIT, OP_NEWVISIT – Session Cookies

These cookies are set to mainly assist internal staff with updating the website via the content manager, but they can also be used through functionality such as online polls and newsletter registration functionality and via the website search facility. We are currently working with our website providers to see if some of these cookies are totally necessary and can be removed.
 

Cookies from third party plugin services

We have been informed by our following suppliers that they use session cookies that are removed from your machine when the user exits the browser.

Public Access for planning, building control and licensing
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId, JSESSIONID - Session Cookies

Modern.Gov  Committee Minutes system
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId – Session Cookie

Capita – Online payments
Name: JSESSIONID – Session Cookie

Google analytics – Monitoring number of site visitors and web statistics.
Name: _utma, _utmz, _utmb, _utmc – Mix of Persistent and Session Cookies
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

This privacy policy applies only to our site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site that collects personal information.