Privacy Policy

Child Care Bureau is committed to protecting your privacy in all our dealings with you, whether through our website's on-line services or through direct contact with our office. When using our website, we want you to have a safe and secure experience. We will endeavour to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

Your personal details, including your name, email address and phone number, where supplied, are held and used by us for the following purposes: To provide you with the information or services you have requested; To periodically keep you informed of our services; To enable you to access the ‘log in’ areas of the site where you have been given a user name and password

Child Care Bureau is a private limited company, with no outside parties who may exert any influence or control over the running of the business. Should the ownership of Child Care Bureau change you will be notified and the implications for your information explained. Except in the case of complying with a legal or regulatory requirement, Child Care Bureau does not and will not disclose your information to third parties without your consent.

Use of Cookies

The Child Care Bureau website uses “Session Cookies”. These are anonymous cookies, which do not hold any personal data but are used to enable the functioning of the secure areas for the site. A cookie is a small data file that is sent from a web server to a web browser when that browser visits the server's site.

Additionally, we use a Google Analytics monitoring system to analyse how many visitors come to the site and to track how they use it. Google Analytics privacy policy can be obtained from Google Analytics We may use other tracking technologies in future but we will amend this policy to explain their use if we do.

You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact Child Care Bureau.

The Data Protection Act 1998

The information that you give us, including any documents and your email address, is termed "personal data" under the Data Protection Act 1998. We must therefore follow the principles set out in that Act when we process your personal data. All the personal data that we obtain from you is held on our central in-house database. Child Care Bureau is a "data controller" for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Please note that clicking on to links on our website may result in you transferring to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of Child Care Bureau. Visitors should review the other websites' privacy policies, as we have no control over what happens to information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.