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CONFIDENTIALITY

Your email will be sent to DEFRA, the government department that is running the consultation on Marine Conservation Zones. The government keeps all consultation responses and makes them available to the public. Please see below for more information on what the government will do with your response, and what to do if you want to keep it confidential. Your data will also be covered by Fish Fight's privacy policy.

From DEFRA's consultation letter

7. When this consultation ends, we intend to put a copy of the responses in the Defra library at Ergon House, London. This is so that the public can see them. Also, members of the public may ask for a copy of responses under freedom of information legislation.

8. If you do not want your response - including your name, contact details and any other personal information – to be publicly available, please say so clearly in writing when you send your response to the consultation. Please note, if your computer automatically includes a confidentiality disclaimer, that won’t count as a confidentiality request.

9. Please explain why you need to keep details confidential. We will take your reasons into account if someone asks for this information under freedom of information legislation. But, because of the law, we cannot promise that we will always be able to keep those details confidential.

10.We will summarise all responses and place this summary on our website at

www.defra.gov.uk/consult within 12 weeks of the consultation closing. This summary will include a list of names of organisations that responded but not people’s personal names, addresses or other contact details.