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The Durham County Record Office is the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. Information which you send to us through our website (either by email or through electronic forms) will be treated as follows:

1) We will keep it no longer than we reasonably believe is necessary.
2) We will use it only for the purpose for which you sent it, except that
3) We may use it for statistical analysis but in such a way that your identity will not be involved.

You will not receive unsolicited paper or electronic mail from us as a result of using an electronic form unless we explicitly ask for and get your permission. We will not pass on your e-mail address or any of your personal details to other organisations.

We do not use cookies for collecting personal information from the site. We will not collect any information about you except that required for the operation of the website.

Unless stated otherwise (ie that you are viewing information over a secure connection) information transmitted over the internet is not secure and we cannot accept responsibility for misuse of information intercepted in this way.

This policy applies to the Durham County Record Office website but not to sites to which we provide links.

Linking

We encourage users to establish hypertext links to the site. You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on the Durham County Record Office website. We do not object to you linking directly to our information. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. Our pages must load into a user's entire window. Nor should you insert any graphic into, or play audio content over Durham County Record Office content, nor allow a pop-up to appear simultaneously with Durham County Record Office content.

We do not permit a website to link to the Durham County Record Office website if it contains material which is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or is in any way a breach of the laws of England and Wales or infringes any third party intellectual property rights.

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