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Privacy

This privacy policy relates only to Salford City Council's authorised websites.

Salford City Council does not capture and store any personal information about individuals who access this website, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details via email, or by using an electronic form, or enquiring about any of our services.

In these latter cases, in compliance with the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications the personal data you provide electronically to Salford City Council will be used exclusively for providing you with the information you have requested.

We do not pass any of your personal data to outside organisations and/or individuals, except with your express consent.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect. GDPR is European law aiming to make data privacy more transparent and organisations more accountable for what we do with your data. You can download a copy of our privacy notice and a guide to accessing your rights below:

Use of cookies

We use Google Analytics to find out how many people are accessing our website. If you don't want to send data to Google Analytics you can download an opt out browser add-on.

Microsoft Clarity

We use Microsoft Clarity to capture how you use and interact with our website through heatmaps and session replay. Masking is in place to protect personal information from being seen or stored. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and is used to improve our website. Additionally, we use this information for site optimisation. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Name

Purpose

Value Passed

_clck

Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID.

String

_clsk

Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.

String

CLID

Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.

String

ANONCHK

Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0.

Flag

MR

Indicates whether to refresh MUID.

Flag

MUID

Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.

GUID

SM

Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains.

Character Flags

To delete cookies or reject cookies

We recommend you allow the cookies we set by this website as they help us provide a better service and make our website easier to use.

If you do not want to receive cookies from any website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add the 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.

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

Summary of terms used above

Browser - used to locate and display web pages via a software application. The most popular ones are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox.

Cookie - a message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, email address and interests.

For more information about cookies see the All About Cookies website.

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