The Seychelles Police Force is a department of the Seychelles Government. We place high importance on your privacy and value the trust you put in us. This Privacy Policy informs you of how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information when you visit our website www.police.gov.sc .

What we collect and how

While you browse, view pages, download documents or send an enquiry from the contact page we automatically gather and store certain information, such as:

Personal Information

When you send us an enquiry via our contact form or our report crime form or voluntarily complete a survey or provide feedback via email, we collect certain personal identification information such as your name, email address and phone number, and other information relevant to surveys.

We do not collect this data for commercial purposes.

Statistical information

Like many site operators, we collect statistical information (or log data) that your browser sends whenever you visit our website.

This data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this.

What we do with the information we gather

We use your data to understand your needs, improve our website user experience and periodically send you emails about latest news and updates. We may use this information to customise our website according to your interests, to provide you with a better service.

How we store your data

Your personal information is stored in our website's database. We do not share your personal information to any third party. 

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites of interest operated by third parties. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over the other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. We encourage you to exercise caution and examine each third-party website’s Privacy Policy.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is updated as of June 2022.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically.

By using our website, or continually use it after periodic changes to the Privacy Policy on this page, it means that you agree and accept our terms in this Privacy Policy and acknowledge any changes to this Privacy Policy. It also means that you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.