Privacy Policy

The Cabinet Office Wales are referred to as 'we' below and you as a user are referred to as 'you'.

What information do we collect?

We collect different kinds of information from visitors to www.thecabinetofficewales.co.uk

• Feedback (through visitors emailing us and using our contact form).
• Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our website services and/or email notifications.
• Site usage information, using cookies

Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy.

In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

• Improve your browsing experience by personalising the website.
• When requested and with consent, send information to you which we think may be of interest to you by post or by email or similar technology.
• You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. In practice, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes. You can also instruct us not to use your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time.

Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

• to the extent that we are required to do so by law
• in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
• to the purchaser or seller (or prospective purchaser or seller) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling or purchasing.
• Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback.
Should you send an email to us seeking advice or information that we are not in a position to give, we may forward your email on to a more appropriate department within The Cabinet Office Wales for a response.

Site Information

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookies directory of your computer. Cookies are created when you visit The Cabinet Office Wales. The cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify an individual user. However, you can set your browser not to accept cookies.

What happens when I link to another site?

We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site. This website contains links to other websites that are of other organisations. 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 other site(s) which collect personal information about you.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). 
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Access to Your information and contacting us.

If you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us by email.

Changes to this privacy policy.

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please email us at info@thecabinetofficewales.co.uk