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Data protection and privacy policy

Data protection statement

The Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) holds a database of contacts which enables us to keep interested parties informed about our activities. Your details are retained on this database and, on occasion, we would like to send informative mailshots to you. Your details will not be shared with any third party and will be used only for the purposes outlined here. If you would prefer not to receive information from iCoCo, please email cohesion@coventry.ac.uk.

iCoCo is a not for profit partnership, which aims to build capacity at all levels and in all local and national agencies to promote community cohesion.

Website privacy policy

iCoCo will process information about you in the following ways:

  • information provided by you via feedback forms or questionnaires will be used to improve our site;
  • logging information, such as your machine's IP address, is collected automatically and used for statistical purposes only;
  • cookies may be used to collect user data to enhance your experience of our site. For example, we may use cookies to determine whether your browser can accept a particular type of software, or to stop pop-up boxes appearing each time you visit our site. We may use cookies for other purposes in the future, as our site develops and this statement will be amended to reflect any such changes.

Information about you will only be disclosed to relevant employees of iCoCo and Coventry University, and will not be revealed to third parties.

Summary of terms

Browser - software used to locate and display Web pages
Cookies - files stored on the user's machine which are designed to identify users and collect user information
IP address - the Internet Protocol address is an identifier allocated to a computer using the Web. IP addresses may be static (a particular computer always has the same address) or dynamic (the address is different each time the computer connects to the Web)

August 2008