The Northamptonshire County Council WordPress website is a service of Northamptonshire County Council. By using this site you are agreeing to the terms and conditions described below.
If you have any query regarding this website, ie, the navigation, content, appearance, or wish to make a suggestion, then please contact us.
Disclaimer
Whilst every effort is made to keep the information contained on this web-site accurate, Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), nor any of its employees, contractors or agents are responsible or liable for any claim, loss or damage which might arise from the use of the information on this site.
NCC makes no representation or warranty that use of this web site, or materials downloaded from it, will not cause computer virus infection or other damage to property. You are advised to take your own precautions to ensure that you have adequate measures to prevent any such problems. It is always wise to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet.
Cookies
Cookies are used to enable a website to ‘remember’ whether a user has visited the site before. Cookies and the logging of Internet Provider (IP) addresses are used to allow WordPress and Northamptonshire County Council to monitor the site traffic and record how many people are accessing the site, when and how. These statistics do not include any information that can be used to identify any individual.
Cookies are also used to store temporary information as a user moves from page to page within a site (items in a shopping basket etc.). Such cookies are erased when the user session ends. This information is converted to number format for statistical purposes, and all information relating to the individual is erased when the user session is ended.
Users can set their browser not to allow cookies to be stored in their computer. To do this, please follow the instructions provided with your web browser software.
Copyright
All material on these pages, unless provided by another URL, including text, logos, icons, photographs and all other artwork, is copyright Northamptonshire County Council (NCC), unless otherwise stated. Permission is granted to electronically copy and print, in hard copy, portions of our site solely for private or educational use (within the classroom), provided that no changes are made to the material and that NCC is acknowledged as the owner.
Commercial use of this material may only be made with the express, written permission of Northamptonshire County Council.
Links to other sites
Certain links in our WordPress site will take you outside our WordPress site to an external web address. These links will all open in the same browser window, to open the site in a new window hold the shift key or right click the link and select ‘open in new window’.
We make every effort to ensure that the links provided by this WordPress web-site to other web-sites are relevant and provide useful information. These links are provided for your convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked site. We cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of the external sites linked to, or guarantee that these links will work all of the time as we have no control over the availability of the linked sites.
Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked from our site, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing any personal information.
Comment Policy
We encourage open discussion. By including a facility for you to comment on the consultation as a whole, or on specific elements of the proposals, we hope to encourage a frank and honest evaluation of our proposals, and welcome your ideas and perspectives.
Our general policy will be to publish all comments in full. However, the decision to publish comments received via this site remains at the discretion of WordPress and Northamptonshire County Council. Comments that violate any of the following rules will not be published.
Personal identification
Do not represent yourself as another person.
Conduct and use of language
Your comment should be within the scope of the topic under discussion. Comments should be civil and tasteful, and must not be malicious or designed to offend. Swear words and profanity will not be accepted.
No reference should be made to the personality of other participants, nor should attacks be made on an individual’s character.
Legal liability
You should remember that you are legally responsible for what you write. By submitting a comment you undertake to indemnify WordPress and Northamptonshire County Council and those working on its behalf against any liability arising from breach of confidentiality or copyright, or any obscene, defamatory, seditious, blasphemous or other actionable statement you may make.
Advertising, spamming and research
No advertising or promotion is allowed except where it is for an event, publication or similar item that has direct relevance to the subject of discussion.
Nuisance comments to the point of spamming will not be tolerated. We want to ensure everyone has the space to join the discussion and will therefore block any users trying to monopolise comment boards with repeated and excessive submissions.
Propriety and moderation
This is a government website. Comments used for party political purposes will be removed.
We will not edit any of your comments, but we may contact you if your comments contravene these rules or if they must be removed.
The opinions expressed on this website are solely those of the individual contributors, and not of WordPress or Northamptonshire County Council.
