We have an account with Google Analytics where we can see anonymised data. We use this data for maintaining the website, how users use the Site and ensuring it remains to the high standard that we would expect. This information does not contain any personal data and your behaviour on the site cannot be individually identified by us.

This tool uses “cookies,” which are text files entered into the memory of your browser by our web server, so that it can be retrieved at a later date, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. Google Analytics does not collect IP addresses. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.

If you do not wish to accept new cookies or wish to disable cookies altogether, you can set your browser accordingly using its menu bar. More help is here.

We use the statistical analytics tool to track visitors to our Site in order to better your experience. Neither we, nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We, or Google will not associate any data gathered from this Site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly consent to and submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

General information that is collected by the web server (and stored for 38 months) which does not require any input on your part, apart from to visit the Site, is data such as (but not limited to):

• type of browser
• operating system
• domain name
• return visits
• visit length.