Privacy and Cookies

These air quality pages for Oxford Airwatch do not not store or capture personal information unless you provide it as part of the service you have requested from the website.

We will only collect information about you that is required for system administration of our web server and for providing the service you request, such as data download. This privacy statement only covers the Oxford Airwatch website; you may also be interested in the privacy policy for the main Oxford City Council website.

The system will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used for internal review and to notify you about updates to the Oxford Airwatch air quality pages.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small text files a Web site uses to recognise repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to the site and facilitate the use of the site. Cookies also allow a site to track usage behaviour and compile site usage information that will allow for the improvement of content.

When you accessed our website, Google Analytics set cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

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For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website.