Personal Accounts Delivery Authority

Scope of this statement

This privacy statement covers the services provided by the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority website.

The Data Controller for this website is the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority.

Purpose of this statement

The purpose of the privacy statement is to inform users of this website, which is managed by the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, about:

• What information is collected about them when they visit this site;
• How this information is used;
• If this information is disclosed; and
• The ways in which we protect users' privacy.

Privacy statement – General principles

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. 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 fulfill 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.

Privacy statement – visitor information

We do not collect any personal information on visitors to this site.

Feedback

If you provide feedback on our website, we will only use this information to develop and improve the site.

Comments and questions

If you send an enquiry by email to a specific address on the website, it may not always be possible for the us to provide the information directly. We may pass your enquiry to another government agency so that they can fulfil your request.

Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. We may 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 about you.

Site usage information

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. If you choose not to accept the cookie, this will not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our web site.

Although your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, you can 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.