How this website uses cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files, placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They aren’t used to identify you personally and you can delete any cookies that your browser has stored. You can find more information on how to manage cookies at aboutcookies.org
We are not responsible for the content of websites linked to or from our websites.
The cookies we use and why?
We use cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
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Name
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Typical Content
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Expires
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_utma
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randomly generated number
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2 years
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_utmb
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randomly generated number
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30 minutes
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_utmc
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randomly generated number
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when you close your browser
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randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached
(e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search)
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6 months
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You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites. Simply download this tool from Google: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Session cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around certain parts of the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like online forms or online payments, cannot be provided.
For more information on how session cookies work, please visit allaboutcookies.org.
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ASP.NET_SessionId
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randomly generated number
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when you close your browser
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ASPSESSION
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randomly generated number
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when you close your browser
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ASPSESSIONIDQQAQSBAC
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randomly generated number
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when you close your browser
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YouTube
We embed videos from our YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Data Protection
Visit Thanet Business respects and is committed to protecting your privacy. That is why we have adopted this Data Protection Policy. This Data Protection Policy lets you know how your personal information is processed and used. We promise that we will take steps to use your personal information only in ways that are compatible with this Data Protection Policy. The following policies are only in effect for the web pages, newsletters, discussion fora and opt-in announcement lists owned and operated by Visit Thanet Business on www.visitthanetbusiness.co.uk. By registering on this site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy. The following discloses our Data Protection Policy:
Information that we collect from you and how it is used
Every computer connected to the Internet is given a domain name and a set of numbers that serve as that computer's "Internet Protocol" (IP) address. When a visitor requests a page on the visitThanet.co.uk web site our web servers automatically recognise that visitor's domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We use this information to examine our traffic in aggregate, and to investigate use of the Visit Thanet Business network, its users, or to cooperate with law enforcement activities and enquiries. We do not collect and evaluate this information for specific individuals. Our web servers do not automatically record email addresses of the visitors to our web sites.
Visit Thanet Business and its advertisers may use single-pixel gif images, sometimes referred to as web bugs or web beacons, to count web page accesses and gather some general statistical information. Visit Thanet Business does not gather personal information through the use of these images. Our advertisers may use single-pixel gifs that can track personal information from cookies that may have been previously placed on a user's computer by an advertiser.
Visit Thanet Business offers access to or may in the future offer access to some services that require registration. We may use your registration contact information to send notification to you of Visit Thanet Business products and services by email and/or postal mail. We will not share that information with any third party, save where we are required to do so by law or other applicable statute.
We may also request your email address or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide additional services (for example, subscriptions to email newsletters, announcement lists or information about conferences and trade shows). Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we will clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry before the information is requested. We maintain a strict policy on the protection of our data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2001 (as amended), which means that we do not sell, rent, or otherwise give your email address to a third-party, without your consent or as permitted by this Data Protection Policy.
Disclosure of your information
Visit Thanet Business will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary.
- Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Visit Thanet Business
- Protect and defend the rights or property of Visit Thanet Business web site, or visitors to the visitThanet.co.uk web site
- Identify persons who may be violating the law, our terms and conditions of use, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing the visitThanet.co.uk site or the computer equipment on which it is hosted (whether owned by Visit Thanet Business or a third party)
- Fulfil a user's order or request
Security and Data Retention
We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires.
Accessing and Updating
You also have a right to be informed within a reasonably delay, on request, what information we hold about you, how we obtained it, and to whom we may pass it on. Such a request must be made in writing. Visit Thanet Business reserves the right as allowed under the act to levy a fee for this service.
We may from time to time send emails announcing new products and services. Except as stated above, Visit Thanet Business will not send you emails that you have not agreed to receive.
Changes to our Data Protection Policy
Any changes to our data protection policy in the future will be posted to the site and, where appropriate, through email notification.
- See more at: http://www.visitthanet.co.uk/plan-your-visit-introduction/data-protection#sthash.0BS8VMKd.dpuf
