The North Yorkshire Police Authority is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. The following policy shows how we treat your personal information.

If you contact us via this website, you will of course automatically supply us with your email address, and perhaps other personal details. Unless you indicate otherwise, The Police Authority will not store this information. Under no circumstances will we pass it to any other party.

Submitting personal information about yourself (such as name and address) to this website will result in those details only being used for official purposes related to the site. This complies with the Data Protection Act 1998, details of which can be found at www.dpr.gov.uk

We do count visits to our website but this simply records the number of 'hits' and does not record personal information. Under no circumstances will we sell, trade, rent or otherwise disclose your details to others.

This website contains links to other sites not owned or operated by North Yorkshire Police Authority. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites.

For information on the privacy policies of these sites, please refer to their home pages.

As a word of caution, children under 16 years of age should not provide any information to any website without the consent of a parent or carer.