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Disclaimer and Privacy Policy

The material available on this website is designed to provide general information only.

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is accurate, it does not constitute legal or other professional advice.

Please note: The Government Equalities Office cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.

Privacy Statement

This section explains how this site uses information you give to us, and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

What information do we collect?

We collect several kinds of information from visitors depending on which part of the site you are visiting: feedback, email enquiries, discussions and site usage information .

1. Feedback

If you provide feedback on the website we will only use this to develop and improve the site. We will keep the feedback for six months after which it will be deleted.

2. Discussions

When you send comments to any discussions on the website there will be a separate privacy statement relevant to that discussion.

3. Site usage information

i) Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a website.

The Government Equalities Office website uses cookies to remember any changes you make to the text size on any page. Our reasoning is that it is more useful for users to have one text size selected throughout the site, rather than having to resize every page individually.

The cookie that we use does not contain any personal information about you, and does not hold any information about which sites you visited before ours.

We give you the option to either accept or reject the 'text size' cookie.

You can also specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so that you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie. Alternatively, you can set your computer not to accept any cookie.

ii) Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. We put together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited.

What happens when I link to another site?

This website contains links to external websites - those of other government departments and of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website, so you should always read the privacy statement of the site you are moving to.

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that 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.

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