Ipswich Cemeteries and Crematorium is a service provided by Ipswich Borough Council.
This privacy policy describes how Ipswich Borough Council, providing a service as Ipswich Cemeteries and Crematorium, will use the personal information collected when you visit the Ipswich Cemeteries and Crematorium website.
Ipswich Borough Council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Your personal details will not normally be disclosed to third parties (an exception being bodies responsible for auditing and administering public funds, in order to prevent and detect fraud). In some circumstances however we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfil a request for information. Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.
Accessing the information we hold
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to see any data we hold on you (with a few exceptions) and to have it corrected if it is not accurate.
You can access the information we hold about you by making a Subject Access Request. This request can be made in writing or by email. Please provide as much detail as possible about the information you require, mark your request Subject Access Requests, and send it to:
Ipswich Borough Council
Grafton House
15-17 Russell Road
Ipswich IP1 2DE
Email: foi@ipswich.gov.uk
There is a flat rate fee of £10 for subject access requests, determined by the Data Protection Act. You do not have to send the payment with the request but if you do not your request may be delayed while we contact you for payment.
The fee can be paid by sending a cheque or postal order made payable to ‘Ipswich Borough Council’. Alternatively, you can make a credit or debit card payment by telephoning 01473 433784, Monday to Friday, 9am to 4:30pm (please note, if you use a credit card to pay, a surcharge of 1.5% will be made reflecting the bank’s charge to the Council for accepting credit card payments).
Correcting data we hold
If you believe the data we hold about you is incorrect or that there is information that we have not supplied, you must contact us within 21 days of receiving our response to your request.
If we don’t agree that the information is incorrect, you can appeal using the Council’s normal complaints procedure.
You can also appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office if we do not correct the data you ask us to.
For further information on the Data Protection Act please visit the Data Protection Act page on the Council’s website.
Cookies
Delivering online services sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer or device in text files known as cookies. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently.
Cookies are generally set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) but if the website has included content from an external resource, such as a Google map, cookies can be set from the origin of the content (third-party cookies).
Session cookies do not have an expiry time set when they are created and are deleted once the browser is closed. However, persistent cookies remain on your computer or device until their expiry time is reached.
Google Analytics
For statistic analysis of how our site is used, we use Google Analytics.
Third-party cookies
On occasion, we either embed or link to third party services. These services may set cookies for which we have no control. Please consult their privacy policies for more details.
