Privacy Policy
Contacting Us
In relation to the Data Protection Act (2018) and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, any information provided to Natural England may be retained for the purpose of monitoring and improving the services offered by Natural England. Any personal data you provide may also be used to contact you for further information relating to your enquiry. Your data will only be used for the purposes for which you have provided it and may only be passed to outside agencies or individuals that are essential to providing the service, or in circumstances where there is a legal obligation to do so.
Please follow the link to view Natural England's Personal Information Charter.
Cookie Policy
We need your permission to save cookies on your machine. Please read the below carefully and let us know if you have any questions.
Cookies are small files, which are sent to your browser (for example Internet Explorer or Firefox) and stored on your computer's hard disk. They only identify your computer and not you personally.
The cookies we use are:
| Name |
Type |
Expiry |
Purpose |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
Essential |
When browsing session ends |
Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server |
| .AspNet.ApplicationCookie |
Essential |
When browsing session ends |
You will only see this if you login to the system. This remembers your authetication settings as you move from page to page |
| cookie_consent_user_accepted |
Essential |
2 months |
Records that you have acknowledged the site uses cookies |
| cookie_consent_level |
Essential |
2 months |
Records your cookie prefernces |
| _gid, _ga |
Optional |
1 day |
Anonymous useage statistics of the site for google analytics |
Website session cookie
This cookie is set by our website's software. This is requried for the website to run.
Google Analytics / web analytics cookies
These cookies are used to help record your use of this website. They are used to collect statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. The Google Analytics cookies contain randomly generated IDs used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookies contain no personal information and are used only for web analytics. The Google Analytics cookies are called _ga and _gid. _gid is a temporary cookie and expires 24 hours after your last visit. _ga is used to distinguish users and is set to expire 2 years after it was last set.
Accepting or denying Cookies
We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.
You can review or change your Cookies Preferences
To delete all cookies or reject all cookies: If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from. Under settings, you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored. You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites run by other organisations. This Privacy and Cookie Policy applies only to Natural England, so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.