Privacy policy

The Bridgend Business Forum / Bridgend County Borough Council does not capture or store any personal information about individuals who browse this website, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details via email or an online form to enquire or apply for any of our services.

Where you choose to complete any of our online forms the personal information you give us is used, by the Bridgend Business Forum / Bridgend County Borough Council or a third party service provider who is contracted to us, to provide the service(s) you requested. Bridgend Business Forum / Bridgend County Borough Council will endeavour to safeguard your information and any disclosures of that information will be in accordance with our registration under the Data Protection Act 1998. Third party service providers contracted to the council will be required to conform to the same standards.

The Bridgend Business Forum / Bridgend County Borough Council collects and stores only the following information that is automatically recognised: the date and time, the originating IP, the type of browser and operating system used, the URL of the referring page, the object requested, and the completion status of the request. Visitors to our website remain anonymous as none of the data collected is linked to any personal information. The information only allows us to diagnose problems with our server, and assess the popularity of the pages on the website, so that we can continually improve our site.