Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
When you use the SEAL website, SEAL 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.
SEAL uses 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.
SEAL does 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.
SEAL 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 SEAL are shown below.
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, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Apple Safari
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Notification of changes
As SEAL 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 SEAL not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if SEAL intend to use your data for such purposes or if SEAL 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 SEAL use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at 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/
SEAL 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 SEAL does 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/
Functional
| Name | Description | Expires | |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hjSessionUser* | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 year | |
| _ga_* | Google. To show us when you visit one of our webpages for the first time. | Expires |
Analytics
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google. To show us when you visit one of our webpages for the first time. | Expires |
| _ga_* | Google. To show us when you visit one of our webpages for the first time. | Expires |
Marketing
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube. To make sure you can watch YouTube videos we’ve embedded on our website. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube. Used to track and enrich the users privacy settings on the YouTube platform. | Expires |
| YSC | YouTube. This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. | Session |
