Privacy policy

Southfleet Parish Council takes your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to contact you directly to pass on notices and information regarding Southfleet parish that you may find useful.

The data received from parishioners will consist only of their name, address, telephone number and email address and will be held on the Parish Council computer system managed by the Clerk and not shared with any Individual or Organisation. Parishioners have the right to amend their details at any time or remove them by informing the Clerk. Requests for personal data information will be declined. If you have any particular concerns about how we hold your information, please contact the Clerk.

Information emails sent by the Clerk will be sent by “blind copy” in order to protect the parishioner’s email address.

The Electoral roll: Received from Dartford Borough Council on an annual basis is held on the Parish Council’s computer system and password protected. The information contained will only be viewed by the Clerk and the Chairman and only used for reference purposes.

This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website.  This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve the website.

By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as set out by this policy.

Information about cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that, if you agree to their use, is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or device.  They contain information that is transferred to your hard drive.

The cookies that we could use can be split into the following categories:

• Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the website.  They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into parts of the website.
• Analytical cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to the website and to see how they move around within the website when they are using it.  This helps us to improve the way the website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Third party cookies. These are used to third parties (such as Google) to enable their services to work, for example Google Captcha on forms or Google Maps. Some third parties use their cookies for advertising purposes. We have no control over these cookies and provide a link to the third party’s privacy policy, where you may have the option to opt-out of their data collection.

The cookies we use

We use the following cookies:

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

How you can block cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

However, please be aware that blocking cookies may affect your ability to use the website.  In particular, you may not be able to access all or parts of the website or use the functionalities contained on it.