In the course of your use of this Website you may provide to the inspectorates (Audit Commission, Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, HM Inspectorate of Probation, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Ofsted) or the inspectorates may otherwise obtain, information about your use of the site, such as standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. This information may be used by the inspectorates to catalogue your interests or information services which you download.
By using this Website, you expressly consent to the inspectorates using this information to help us improve this website, identify popular content and understand how well-read our publications are. We reserve the right to gather data regarding usage of the Website, for example, to identify the number of visitors to each part of the site. However we do not collect this information in a way which identifies anyone.
Your personal data is protected by law under the Data Protection Act 1998. The inspectorates will comply with this at all times. You may at any time request from the inspectorates (via the Audit Commission) a copy of the personal information held about you. Such a request should be emailed to webmaster@audit-commission.gov.uk.
You should note other websites linked to this Website are not covered by this privacy policy.
Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through 'Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them' (external link).
Our use of cookies
Audit Commission / inspectorate cookies
Cookies to ensure our web servers operate efficiently:
- Name: auditcommpersistancecookie
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser
- Name: ASP.NET_sessionId
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser