Privacy Policy

Who we are

Borough of Poole is the owner of the information collected on this site.

We will not sell, share or rent any part of your information collected on the website to third parties in any way, unless stated on the web page at the point of collecting information from you, or as outlined in our policy statement, or as required by law.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ‘personal data’ is defined as any personally identifiable information relating to a Data Subject such as Name, ID Numbers, Location Data, Online Identifiers, etc.

Borough of Poole may collect the following “personal data”:
•Name & Job Title
•Contact information including telephone number, email address, and IP address
•Responses to any surveys
•Website Cookie Information

Borough of Poole may collect the following information about companies:
•Company contact information including telephone number, email address, and address.
•Company financial information (including information obtained from Companies House)

Why we collect your personal information

We use your information in the following ways:

  • To keep you up to date with any upcoming events, projects, or news you may wish to be involved with, however you may opt out of these emails at any time;
  • To provide event delegate lists, featuring individual’s names and company names only;
  • To facilitate and maintain trading relationships within the Poole Marine Hub partnership.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored temporarily on your computer. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk, read cookie files created by other websites or damage your system.

This website only uses cookies to maintain a unique identity on your browser whilst you use certain pages. Cookies used do not contain any record of the information you may enter, nor any other personal information. They are only used to measure overall website traffic.

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.

Find out what cookies we use on this website.

You can find out more about the different types of cookies and what they do, go to www.allaboutcookies.org.

Further information

If you have a concern about how we are using your information, we would ask you to contact us in the first instance using the following email address: economicdevelopment@poole.gov.uk or phone 01202 633353.

Data Protection Officer
If you are not satisfied with a response to your concerns from the Service, our Data Protection Officer can review any issues regarding Information Rights legislation if necessary. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted at the address below:

Data Protection Officer
Bournemouth & Poole Information Governance Team
Bournemouth Borough Council
Town Hall
Bournemouth
BH2 6DY

Information Commissioner
For further information about Information Rights legislation, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk or by telephone 0303 123 1113.