Cookies
When you use the Merthyr Tydfil Family Information Service (Merthyr FIS) Website, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council (MTCBC) will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customise your use of our Website.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
MTCBC use cookies to provide us with anonymous aggregate information on how people use our Website and to help us to know what they find interesting and useful on our Website. MTCBC do not store personal information such as email addresses or other details in a cookie.
Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to change the settings of your web browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to your computer, giving you the choice whether to accept it or not. MTCBC does not force the user to have cookies enabled on their PC. Cookie information is not stored on our server. Some of the Cookies that may be used by MTCBC are shown below:
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These are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .
Notification of changes
As MTCBC creates new services, this may generate a need to amend this Cookie Policy. If our Cookie Policy changes at any time in the future, it will be posted on this page.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask MTCBC not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if MTCBC intend to use your data for such purposes or if MTCBC intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms MTCBC use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at Email: information.security@merthyr.gov.uk Tel.: 01685 725000. You can view the Council’s Privacy Notices via the following link: https://www.merthyr.gov.uk/council/data-protection-and-freedom-of-information/privacy-notices/
MTCBC site may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that MTCBC do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Under Data Protection Regulations you have the right to access information held about you. Any access request can be made to data.protection@merthyr.gov.uk or via the following link https://www.merthyr.gov.uk/council/data-protection-and-freedom-of-information/data-protection-requests/