Harrogate Business Directory

Harrogate Borough Council is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to www.businessharrogate.co.uk or any other website used by Harrogate Borough Council or its partners. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.
By registering on this site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.

Information that we collect from you
When you visit or register on www.businessharrogate.co.uk you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself including your name and contact details. We may also collect information about your usage of our website as well as information about you from messages you post to the website and e-mails or letters you send to us.

Use of your information
Your information will enable us to provide you with access to all parts of our site and to supply the services you have requested, in particular it will be used by local partners to help you with your business requirements and assist you in trading in Harrogate. We will use this information to help plan and review the range of businesses available in the area so that we can provide better services and we may contact you about your requirements. It will also enable us to contact you where necessary concerning your requests. We will also use and analyse the information we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business.
In particular, we may use your information to contact you for your views on our services and to notify you occasionally about important changes or developments to the site or our services. Further, where you have consented, we might also use your information to let you know about other products and services which we offer which may be of interest to you and we may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, please let us know.

Disclosure of your information
The information you provide to us will be held on our computers in the United Kingdom and may be accessed by or given to our staff and other local authority partners. These parties process information and provide support services in partnership with ourselves . We may also pass aggregate information on the usage of our site to third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.
Where you have consented when providing us with your details, we may also allow carefully selected third parties to contact you occasionally about products and services which may be of interest to you. They may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted by these companies in the future, please let us know.
Finally, if we enter into a joint venture with or merge with another county council or business entity, your information may be disclosed to our new business partners.
Countries outside the European Economic Area do not always have strong data protection laws. However, we will always take steps to ensure that your information is used by third parties in accordance with this policy.
Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.

Cookies
Cookies are small amounts of information that we store on your computer. Unless you have indicated your objection when disclosing your details to us, our system will issue cookies to your computer when you log on to the site. Cookies make it easier for you to log on to and use the site during future visits. They also allow us to monitor website traffic and to personalise the content of the site for you. You may set up your computer to reject cookies and if you wish to do so, please contact us for instructions, although, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our site. Users can set their browser not to allow cookies to be stored in their computer. To do this, please follow the instructions provided with your web browser software.

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 are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please contact us. We are entitled by law to charge a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes to our privacy policy in the future will be posted to the site and, where appropriate, through e-mail notification. Contact, all comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your information are welcomed and should be sent to edu@harrogate.gov.uk.

Copyright notice © Harrogate Borough Council 2006.
All rights in the design, text, graphics (including video graphics), pictures, software, source code, sound recording, music and all other materials on our Site and the selection or arrangement thereof is protected by copyright of Harrogate Borough Council or other third parties. In particular, and unless otherwise agreed in writing by Harrogate Borough Council, Users are entitled to use the material for personal consumption only and are not entitled to use the material for any commercial gain or to exploit, reproduce, duplicate or transfer the material in any form or format.
If you consider any work contained within the site to be an infringement of any of your intellectual property or other proprietary rights please contact us at edu@harrogate.gov.uk setting out the details of your claim.