Our Commitment to your Data Protection
Our policy is to respect and protect the privacy of anyone who visits this website.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Generate statistics about website use
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Third party functions
Some of the functionality of the site uses third-party plugins, for example Met Office Weather Forcast, Site Search, embedded PDF reader, and PayPal for the 'History of Coleshill' book sales. These third-party services may use cookies, and although we have chosen to integrate the services with our website, we do not have control over the cookies set by these services.
Because the detail of these cookies may change, we have listed some information and links about the respective third parties below. The actual cookies may also vary depending on which sections of the site you visit.
- Met Office - Privacy Policy
- Google - Privacy Policy
- PayPal - Privacy Policy
- Bing Birdseye View -Privacy Policy
- Ordnance Survey Maps - Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will probably break the functions offered by these third parties
Controlling and deleting cookies
You can set your web browser to accept or reject cookies, or tell you when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookies from your computer. Please be aware that some websites may not work properly with the cookie option turned off.
The AboutCookies.org website tells you how to control and delete cookies on most browsers.
Personal information collected via online forms
Personal information will only be used for the purpose indicated and will be held securely. It will not be used for any other purpose without your permission and will not be kept for longer than necessary.
IP addresses
We collect IP addresses only for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our site. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that while your user session will be logged you will remain anonymous to us. This information tells us which areas of the website are used most and helps us improve the service we offer you.
External links
This website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites nor do we endorse any externally linked sites.