Privacy Policy

All information provided to West Mercia Police via our website will be treated in confidence and will not be disclosed to third parties without your prior permission, unless we are required by law to do so.

West Mercia Police reserves the right to gather information relating to site usage. Any information gathered is primarily for internal use to allow us to refine and improve the service we provide.

Certain sections of this site require personal information to be given, for example surveys and feedback forms. The provision of this information is entirely optional.

If you contact us by using email addresses provided on this website, you accept that you will automatically be providing your email address and possibly other personal information. We will only process any personal information you disclose to us via the website as necessary to facilitate the purpose for which it is provided. Other information will only be held on file long enough to respond to your enquiry or comment.

As a word of caution, children under 16 years of age should not submit any information to any website without the consent of a parent or carer.

Security

We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information but cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online. You accept the inherent security risks of providing information and dealing online over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.

Cookies

We use cookies to store a user's preferences such as font size and background colour, and to help us see how people use the site via the Google Analytics tool.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user.  Your web browser can be set to not accept cookies; please consult the help function for your particular browser.  For more information about cookies please see the All About Cookies website.

This site makes use of Google Analytics uses cookies to collect visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.  This information is then used to evaluate use of the site and to create statistical reports on website activity.  We will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site.  For more information on Google's privacy policy please see the Google Privacy Centre.

Third Party Sites

The West Mercia Police website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information will be collected and how we intend on using it.

Regardless of later updates, we will never use the information you submit under this current policy in a new way without first providing you with an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent that use.