This page (taken with any documents and pages it refers to) tells you the terms of use which you agree to when you use this website. The site is managed by KOR Communications on behalf of the Environment Agency ond the other partners in the Lower Otter Restoration project (and referred to as ‘we’ from now on).
This page was last updated on 4 April 2022.
Using this website
This website is maintained for your personal use.
You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of, this site by any third party.
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time.
By using this site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
Linking to and from this website
We welcome and encourage other websites to link to the information that is hosted on these pages, and you don’t have to ask permission to link to this website.
However, we don’t give you permission to suggest that your website is associated with, or endorsed by, this website.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Using this website content
The material featured on this website is subject to copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.
Disclaimer
While we make every effort to keep this website up to date, we don’t provide any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to the accuracy of the information on the site. We don’t accept liability for loss or damage incurred by users of the website, whether direct, indirect or consequential, whether caused by tort, breach of contract or otherwise, in connection with our site, its use, the inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it. This includes loss of: income or revenue; business; profits or contracts; anticipated savings; data; goodwill; tangible property; wasted management or office time.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Requests to remove content
In special cases, you can ask for content to be removed from this website, eg if it breaches copyright laws, contains sensitive personal data or includes material that may be considered obscene or defamatory. Please contact us by email, giving the web address (URL) of the content you’d like removed and why. We’ll acknowledge your request and let you know what’s going to happen. Unpublishing is at our discretion.
Information about you and your visits to this website
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. However, you must take your own precautions to ensure that the process that you employ for accessing this website does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system. We can’t accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system that may occur whilst using material derived from this website.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.
Governing law
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
General
We accept no liability for any failure to comply with these terms and conditions where such failure is due to circumstance beyond our reasonable control. If we waive any rights available to us under these terms and conditions on one occasion, this does not means that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion. If any of these terms and conditions are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions shall nevertheless continue in full force.
Revisions to these terms
We may at any time revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check these terms and conditions regularly, as continued use of this website after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.
Last updated: 4 April 2022
What we collect
We collect certain information or data about you when you use this website. This includes: questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you send an email to us; your IP address, and details of which version of web browser you used; information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website. This helps us to: improve the site by monitoring how you use it; respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to; provide you with relevant information if you have requested it. We can’t personally identify you using your data. We store your data on our secure servers in the UK. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this.
Keeping your data secure
Transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can’t guarantee the security of your data. Any data you transmit is at your own risk. We have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it. We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.
Disclosing your information
We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so, or if we have to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.
Your rights
You can find out what information we hold about you, and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.
Following a link to another website
If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.
Following a link from another website
If you come to this from another website, we may receive personal information about you from the other website. You should read the privacy policy of the website you came from to find out more about this.
GDPR states that the personal data we hold about you must be:
Processed fairly and lawfully;
Used in a way that you would reasonably expect;
Collected and used only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you;
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about;
Accurate and kept up to date;
Kept only for as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about;
Kept securely including ensuring that appropriate technical and security measures are in place to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure.
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
When exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases we will need you to respond with proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights.
The right to access personal data we hold on you
The right to correct and update the personal data we hold on you
The right to have your personal data erased
The right to object to processing of your personal data or to restrict it to certain purposes
The right to data portability
The right to withdraw your consent to the data processing
The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office – details for contacting them are available here.
When we receive your request for any of the above, we will confirm what actions we have taken or the reason why we are not complying with your request.
Last updated: 30 September 2020
How cookies are used on this website
This website puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to: measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs; remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again; this website’s cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements. Google Analytics stores information about: the pages you visit on this website; how long you spend on each website page; how you got to the site; what you click on while you’re visiting the site. We don’t collect or store your personal information (eg your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
Name
Purpose
Expires
_ga
This helps us count how many people visit this website by tracking if you’ve visited before
2 years
_gat
Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made
10 minutes
_utma
Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to this website or to a certain page
2 years
_utmb
This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on this website
30 minutes
_utmc
This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser when you close your browser
when you close your browser
_utmz
This tells us how you reached this website (eg from another website or a search engine)
You may see a pop-up welcome message when you first visit this website. We’ll store a cookie, cookiescriptaccept, so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again.
