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Applications for permission to reproduce text, photographs or graphic images contained on this site should be sent to:

The e-Government Officer
Lancaster City Council
Lancaster
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The copyright of all photographs and graphic images is owned by Lancaster City Council (except where otherwise stated).

The information contained on this site is for general guidance only. You should neither act, nor refrain from action, on the basis of any such information. You should take appropriate professional advice on your particular circumstances because the application of laws and regulations will vary depending on particular circumstances and because laws and regulations undergo frequent changes.

Lancaster City Council disclaims all responsibility (including in negligence) for all consequences of any person acting on, or refraining from acting in reliance on, information contained in this site.

Disclaimer

Any links to third-party websites by Lancaster City Council provided solely for the purposes of convenience for those browsing the website of Lancaster City Council. Please note that the selection by you of a website which is listed on, or capable of being accessed from Lancaster City Council will connect you to a site which is not under the control of Lancaster City Council.

Lancaster City Council has no control over the content of linked websites or the services available through them. Accordingly it makes no representation concerning the content of those sites to you. Nor can the fact that Lancaster City Council has referred to, or established hyperlinks with, such sites serve as an endorsement of any kind whatsoever by Lancaster City Council (notwithstanding any description or summary against any item in Lancaster City Council's own pages).

Lancaster City Council has not tested any content, software, features or links found on any sites listed and does not give any representation regarding the quality, safety, suitability or reliability of any of them or of any of the material contained in them.

Privacy Statement

Lancaster City Council respects the privacy of all site visitors and subsequently complies with all statutory data protection provisions applicable to England and Wales.

We will use the information you provide to make improvements to Lancaster City Council services.

Information communicated via the Internet could be detected by third parties and any information you send to us is at your own risk.

We do not use cookies for collecting user information from the site and we will not collect any information about you except that specifically identified below.

This privacy policy only covers the website at www.lancaster.gov.uk. Links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.

Where visitors may submit information via forms etc, they are deemed to have consented to the collection, processing and storage of that information.

Information submitted will be stored by the webmaster as an email message and used to process any requests. It will be retained for a reasonable period. Where a business transaction is then enacted commercial records may be retained for up to seven years.

The principles of fair processing will be applied and should you have any concern regarding collection, processing, storage or disclosure of information submitted via this website please contact the council.

In submitting information to this site, the act of clicking on the ‘submit’ button is taken as explicit consent to use of the information as described in this statement.

Since no authentication of visitors is provided on this site the council cannot be held responsible for any acts of impersonation and will assume all information submitted is genuine unless there is reason to doubt its authenticity. If you suspect that a false entry has been made using your identity, please contact the council.