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in the major beach replenishment projects of 2005-
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Privacy Policy & Cookie Guidance
We are committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when visiting or using poolebay.net, and we will comply with all Data Protection Act requirements. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you (the user) when you visit this website.
Personal information is not automatically stored or captured, only your IP address is automatically captured by the web server.
Where personal data is voluntarily provided through e-
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances (for example, when necessary to protect our intellectual property rights). We may also disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.
This Privacy Policy only covers poolebay.net. Websites linked to and from the site are not covered by this policy and we recommend you review the Privacy Policy at each of these websites to determine how that site protects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy may be subject to change from time to time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically.
Information We Collect
General
If you contact us regarding our services or offers, we will collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, address, email address and facts about your computer, profession and similar information. This data is kept secure and will only be used for the purpose that you are providing it for and will not be passed on to a third party.
Web Site Usage Information
IP addresses* and website usage information is automatically collected from you when you visit poolebay.net. This information helps us evaluate how visitors and subscribers use and navigate our website on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each web page, and the length of their visits.
How We Use Information Collected
We will only use the information we collect for the purposes for which you specifically provided the information.
Last updated 11/11/12
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files placed on your computer's hard drive by websites, they help websites to analyse web traffic or recognise your computer when you visit a particular site.
Cookies can allow web applications to tailor content to suit your needs by remembering
your likes, dislikes and preferences -
Cookies can also be used to track the number of visitors to a website, the time they spent on the site and the pages they looked at.
Cookies we use
We use cookies to see how people are using our website. The tool we use for this is called Google Analytics.
Google provides anonymised data about the visits made to our website. Google servers automatically record the page requests made when you visit our site. These “server logs” typically include your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
The information gathered by Google Analytics helps us to improve our site and tailor it to our customers' needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes, we cannot recognise you from the records we hold and cannot access your computer or any information about you. You can find out more about the tool we use for this and how it works on the Google Analytics website..
More info: www.google.com/policies/privacy
We may also link to several other sites which may or may not use cookies in order to track usage.
If you are concerned about cookies from this or any other website you may want to adjust the privacy settings in your internet browser. By doing this you can withdraw your consent for websites to upload cookies to your computer.
Accept or decline cookies
Most internet browsers automatically accept (or 'consent' to) cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may reduce your browsing experience but it gives you greater control over the cookies that are placed on your computer. Should you wish to you can add our web domain to your list of websites that you do not want to receive cookies from.
Here are some links to point you towards advice for the most popular internet browsers:
Desktop browsers:
Internet Explorer: IE6, IE7 and IE8, IE9
Mobile browsers:
Mobile Safari -
Netfront (pdf download)
You can find out more about the different types of cookies and what they do at BBC Webwise or at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Last updated 11/11/12