Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is in compliance with the 2018 General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.

Lewes District Council – www.makingadifferenceinlewes.co.uk (the Site) – this page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Copyright Notice:

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents of this website page, in any form, is prohibited. You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Cookies & How They Benefit You:

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties (without your express permission)

Granting Us Permission To Use Cookies:

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about the Cookies we use:

Functionality Cookies:

  • We use cookies to make our website work including, allowing you to add comments to our site.

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  • Cookie purpose description: This cookie remembers the user’s submitted data. When a comment is submitted in a blog post. The purpose is to auto-populate form fields for subsequent comments, in order to save time for the users.

For more help on how to disable your cookies or delete them visit aboutcookies.org

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 19/05/2022 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.