The system will record your e-mail address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used for internal review and to notify you about updates to the Towncentric web site unless you request otherwise.

Date protection act 1998
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you.

• We will only use personal information you supply to us for the reason that you provided it for.
• We will only hold your information for as long as necessary to fulfil that purpose.
• We will not pass your information to any other parties unless this is made clear to you at the time you supplied it.
• All employees and contractors who have access to your personal data or are associated with the handling of that data are obliged to respect your confidentiality.

Cookies and IP addresses 
A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. Currently, we only use cookies to identify you if you have registered to 'My Towncentric' on our site. However, we do maintain site logs which include the IP address details of all machines accessing our pages. This enables us to monitor website usage to see;

• Which pages are the most popular
• Which pages are seldom or never visited.
• And to give us an idea of how extensively the Towncentric Website is used.

Any IP information is treated as strictly confidential and is not published or divulged to any third party.

If you have any query about personal information that we may hold, please write to:

IT Services
Data Protection Officer
Gravesham Borough Council
Civic Centre
Windmill Street
Gravesend
Kent DA12 1AU

Copyright
The names, images and logos identifying Towncentric, Gravesham Borough Council, government departments, third parties and their information, products and services are proprietary marks of Towncentric, Gravesham Borough Council, the government departments and/or third parties.

Logos
Copying or use of the Towncentric logo, Gravesham Borough Council logo, government logos and/or other third party logos accessed via our site is not permitted without prior approval from the copyright owner. Requests for permission to use the Towncentric logo should be directed to:

Visitor Manager
18a St George's Square
Gravesend
Kent
DA11 0TB
United Kingdom

Tell us how and why your wish to use our logos. Please include your contact details:
name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail.

Hyperlinking:

To us at Towncentric
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site and we actively encourage you to do so. We would prefer you to inform us by email if you do, tell us the address and nature of the page that will be linking to the site. The email address to use is info@towncentric.co.uk.

We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. Towncentric pages must load into the user's entire window and no advertising should be shown. In addition where linking to a specific page a link to our home page and where possible a notice to state that the link will take them to content on our site.

From us at Towncentric
It is our general policy to obtain permission to link to other websites when we can find contact details. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the linked websites. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.