Copyright

The content on these websites, including images, data and design, is provided for information purposes and for personal, non-commercial use only.

 

The use of and access to the information is regulated by intellectual property rights (copyright). No part of these sites may be copied or adapted without written permission from East Kent Housing.

 

Use of RSS Feeds

East Kent Housing provides a number of RSS feeds which you may view using RSS reader software. If you run your own website, you can display the latest headlines from other websites on your own site using RSS.

 

We encourage the use of East Kent Housing news feeds as part of a website, however, we do require that the proper format and attribution is used when East Kent Housing content appears. The attribution text should read "East Kent Housing News" or "East Kent Housing" as appropriate. You may not use any East Kent Housing logo.

 

East Kent Housing reserves the right to prevent the distribution of East Kent Housing news content and the council does not accept any liability for its feeds.

 

You:

  • may use the East Kent Housing RSS Feed in order to display the council content on your website, blog or other product or service.
  • must display the East Kent Housing RSS Feeds that you subscribe to in full and accurately on your website, blog or other product or service.
  • may not directly or indirectly change, edit, add to or produce summaries of any East Kent Housing content or any other content available at eastkenthousing.org.uk or place any East Kent Housing content in an HTML frame-set.
  • do not have the right to use any East Kent Housing content or mark/logo on your website, blog or other product or service or elsewhere except as provided in the East Kent Housing RSS Feed itself.

 

East Kent Housing reserves the right to withdraw this RSS service at any time.

 

Disclaimer

All information contained within this site was, to the best of our knowledge, correct at the time of inclusion. The site is regularly checked and updated but East Kent Housing cannot accept responsibility or liability for any loss, damage or inconvenience which may arise from the use of the information provided.

 

External links are provided to third party sites that East Kent Housing considers may be of additional benefit and interest to site visitors. East Kent Housing does not however endorse the information, products or services offered by these sites and the businesses operating them. Similarly, East Kent Housing does not carry out ongoing quality control of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for any actions arising from their use or for the content of further links leading from them.

 

Privacy

You are not required to provide any personal information to visit this site. Users who voluntarily provide information are assured that it will be used for contact only and will not be shared with any third party. No personal information you have given us will be passed on to third parties for commercial purposes. We will only use any personal information you send us for the purposes for which you provide it. We will only hold your information for as long as necessary for these purposes.

 

Information you provide us with may be used for statistical research but will not be used in any way (beyond its original purpose) which enables you to be identified.

 

East Kent Housing's website does not make use of permanent 'cookies' to store data on your computer. ('Cookies' are small text files that are left on your computer following a visit to a site. These 'cookies' enable the site operator to subsequently monitor the frequency of your site visit and the way that you use the site, so that your subsequent visits can then be tailored to be more relevant, informative and rewarding). 

 

Temporary cookies maybe used for:

 

  • Online forms - to enable the Save/Restore facility available with some of the online forms to be used and it isn't used for any other purpose.
  • Online payments - for the purpose of processing secure online payments and are generated by the bank's secure server.
  • Online questionnaires - To assist in ongoing site development, East Kent Housing uses monitoring software for the purposes of recording the number of visitors to the site and the most frequently visited pages. We do not use the software to identify these visitors nor keep records of their personal e-mail addresses.

 

If you contact the Council by e-mail, your details will not be added to a database unless it is relevant to your enquiry and the follow-up action required.

 

All dealings with East Kent Housing will be subject to the Data Protection Act. You have a right to know about the personal information East Kent Housingholds about you and if East Kent Housing receives comment on the accuracy of personal information, it will review the relevant data.

 

For further information, please e-mail web.editor@thanet.gov.uk

 

Security

Any dealings with East Kent Housing will be subject to the normal security arrangements surrounding all our public transactions.

 

You should be aware however that there are no encryption facilities within East Kent Housing's e-mail server. For confidential issues, East Kent Housing recommends that you correspond with the relevant Officer or Department, by sealed letter, marked if appropriate 'Private and Confidential'.

 

We accept payments online for selected services. These are provided by an authorised third party supplier whose site operates full commercially accepted security procedures to protect your transaction.

 

If you require any further information on any of our website policies, please e-mail web.editor@thanet.gov.uk