The Councils

Councils: refers to the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington.

Copyright

All material on this website, including text and graphics, is the property of Camden Council unless otherwise stated. Use of this material may be made by educational organisations without permission from Camden Council if an acknowledgement to Camden Council is included. The express written permission of Camden Council is required for any other proposed use of this material.

Data quality

The Councils are committed to the highest standards of information quality. If you think this website contains errors or out of date information, please notify us (explaining which page contains the error). Thank you for your help.

Disclaimer

The Councils are committed to the highest standards of information quality and every attempt has been made to present up to date and accurate information.

However, the Councils give no warranty as to the accuracy of the information contained in this website and accept no liability for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of reliance on such information.

Although the Councils take all reasonable measures to ensure that the information provided to them from third parties is not defamatory or offensive, the Councils cannot control the content or take responsibility for pages maintained by external providers.

The Councils do not endorse any external linked sites and are not responsible for their content.

Privacy statement

What personal information do you collect?
In some areas, we may ask you to register your name, email address and relevant personal details. We will also collect information from you if you complete any other forms on our site or if you contact us with comments or specific requests.

This information is only used for its intended purpose and, if we wish to use it for any other purpose, we will ask you first.

If you choose to complete any of our online forms, the Councils will not use the personal information you provide us with for marketing purposes without first gaining your consent. We may then pass your details to third party service providers who are contracted to the Councils in the course of dealing with your request. These third parties are obliged to keep your details securely. They will only use them to fulfil your request and will dispose of the information at the appropriate time.

No personal information you have given us will be passed on to third parties for commercial purposes. Our policy is that all information will be shared among officers and other agencies where the legal framework allows it, if this will help us to improve the service you receive and to develop other services.

If you do not wish certain information about you to be exchanged within the Councils, you can request for this not to happen.

Collecting information automatically
We collect statistics about your visit to our website. We use this information to track user activity which, in turn, helps us to improve the website. These statistics do not contain personal data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

We use ‘cookies’ to collect this statistical information. However, the cookies themselves do not store personal information.

Confidentiality/security
We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

• primary personal data (such as name and contact details)
• indentifiers (such as credit card details, website password)
• All our employees and data processors with access to, and associated with the processing of, personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to government institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Email messages
You may receive occasional email messages from the Councils on matters that we consider to be of interest to you, if you have provided your email address to us for this purpose.

Email monitoring
The use of the Councils’ email systems may be monitored and communications read in order to secure effective operation of the systems and for other lawful purposes.

External Links
The site contains links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to the Councils’ website. When you are transferring to another site, you should read the site’s privacy statement for the organisation’s policy on the use of personal information.

Changes
If this privacy statement changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page.

By regularly reviewing this page, you will ensure that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with others.

Data Protection Act 1998
Find out more about your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998.