Privacy statement

When you use Lancashire County Council's website, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name or email address. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Lancashire County Council to provide you with the services you select.

Please note that sometimes on particular webpages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. For example if you're submitting an application form for a job, we may ask about criminal convictions. When we do this we will specify further on these webpages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
 

Lancashire County Council will only use personal information you send us for the purposes for which you provide it. For example if you have opted to get emails from us, we may contact you to request your opinion about specific issues or to inform you of new services.
 

The county council may contact you:

to inform you of new services or to ask for your opinions if you have opted to get emails from Lancashire County Council; to provide you with updates when you have requested services from us.

The county council will not pass your personal information on to any other parties, except where required to carry out our duties and functions as a local authority.

All employees and subsidiaries who may have access to your personal data are obliged to respect its confidentiality.
 

The county council will only hold your information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which you provide the information to us.
 

If you have a query or concern, please contact:

For data protection matters, Lancashire County Council’s Data Protection Officer on 01772 531115, or by email on dataprotection@lancashire.gov.uk  

For data security matters, Lancashire County Council’s Corporate Information Security Officer on 01772 533974

You can also write to:

Data Protection
Lancashire County Council
P.O.Box 78
County Hall
Fishergate
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 8XJ
 

In order to improve the council's online services, Lancashire County Council collects information about your visits to www.lancashire.gov.uk. These statistics do not contain personal data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

We do not use cookies to store personal data and we don't link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.
 

A cookie is a small piece of information that is placed on your computer by a website. Cookies do not damage your computer. They cannot be used to get information from your computer about you or read any personal material kept by you on your computer. You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/faqs/cookie-file.html