Witham Town Council has adopted a policy for the determination of grant applications. The Council wishes to ensure that funding is directed towards projects and services which work in partnership with the Council’s aims and objectives in order to provide maximum benefit to the community.Groups can apply for grants for revenue funding towards the cost of operating a service (
Witham Town Council is a Data Controller for the purpose of the Data Protection Act. The Council has notified the Information Commissioner’s Office of the types of personal information it processes and the purposes for which it does so.
The Information Commissioner’s Office is the independent body responsible for overseeing the Data Protection Act and maintains a public register which contains the name and address of Data Controllers with a description of the kind of processing they do. Anyone can access this register and if you wish to view the Council’s entry you can access it via the Information Commissioner’s Office Website.
Also if you have questions about the use of your personal information, the Information Commissioner’s website offers useful advice and guidance.
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. Witham Town Council respects your privacy. The information that you provide us with, or that is gathered automatically helps us to monitor our service and provide you with the services that you are entitled to as a resident of Witham or visitor to our website.
We do not collect personal information about you when you visit the website unless you choose to provide it to us to take advantage of a specific service, for example when you complete an online form.
We are committed to improve the quality of people’s experience when they contact us. By allowing your details to be used across other council services, you are allowing us to re-use information to minimise the time taken when you contact us in the future.
Where the Council is required to provide the information by law. Where the information is needed to prevent or detect a crime Where the Council is obliged to publish the information by law Where disclosure is in the vital interests of the person concerned.
We are keen to ensure that we are providing our residents with services that they need. Consequently, you may receive occasional e-mail messages from Witham Town District Council about Council news, events or other information which we think you may find interesting, if you have provided your email address to us for this purpose.
We collect web statistics automatically about your visit to our site based on your IP address. This information is used to help us identify how many visitors we have to the site and which pages have been accessed.
Individuals can find out if the Council holds any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act.
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the Internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies.
Also, please understand that we are not in control of any of the sites that we link to from ours. This means that again we do not accept liability for any loss, damage, or inconvenience which may occur through your use of the information on those sites. Please contact the appropriate organisations to check that their information is up to date and accurate.
We expect notification of further publication of our information as a courtesy. However, permission to use our information (for non-commercial purposes) is given, if we are acknowledged as the source. Please contact the webmaster with notification of further publication of information from our site.
