Privacy policy

We collect certain information or data about you when you use childcarechoices.gov.uk. This includes your IP address, details of which version of web browser you used, information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website.

This helps us to improve the site by monitoring how you use it, and respond to feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to. We can’t personally identify you using this data.

Where your data is stored

We store information on how you use and navigate our website on our secure servers in the UK to help make improvements to this site. Personal data is not stored.

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this.

Keeping your data secure

Transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can’t guarantee the security of your data. Any data you transmit is at your own risk. We have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it. We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.

Disclosing your information

We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so, or if we have to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements. This includes exchanging information with other government departments for legal reasons.

Your rights

You can find out what information we hold about you, and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.

Links to other websites

The childcarechoices.gov.uk website contains links to and from other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, and doesn’t cover other services or sites that we link to. If you go to another website from this one, we advise you to read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.