Terms and conditions

Disclaimer

This website offers a general guide to the role of the Office of the Identity Commissioner and is not a full and authoritative statement of the law. We have made every effort to ensure that the information on this website is correct. However, changes in the law may make the website become gradually less accurate.

Links to other sites

Our website contains links to other sites. It mainly signposts to public bodies and government departments but may also link to other websites run by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any of these other sites. We suggest you read the privacy statements on other websites you visit before you give personal information.

The Office of the Identity Commissioner can take no responsibility for the contents or reliability of the information provided by the external websites that we link to. Our links to them should not be considered as an endorsement of any kind. We also have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Use of cookies

We occasionally use cookies on this website. We use them to assess how visitors are using the site, so that we can make it easier to use. We cannot use the cookies to find out who you are or where you are. We do not share the information we get from these cookies with anyone else. The cookies expire as soon as practicable after you leave this website.

Email policy

The Office of the Identity Commissioner website email facilities are a way of making general enquiries. We regret that we cannot enter into long exchanges with individuals by email as this is not a secure way of sending personal information.

However, if you contact us by email and we cannot reply in the same way, we will reply by other means like the telephone or by post.