Privacy and cookies policy

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is a Public Authority, and we have a number of legal responsibilities to provide services to you.

The GMCA collect certain information or data about your when you visit www.togetherwearegm.co.uk.

Data we collect

When you visit this site we will collect the following data from you:

• Information on how you use the site, this includes but is not limited to the resolution of your screen, the browser you use, which pages you are looking and the time you spend on the site.

This information is collected through Google Analytics. This is anonymised and IP addresses are not logged or stored to further protect your privacy.

We may also collect:

• any information you provide to us via email or the enquiry form

This data can be viewed by authorised people in GMCA and shared with partner agencies, councils and contracted suppliers. We do this to:

• gain analysis into the performance of our content and campaigns
• ensure our site meets the technical needs of those accessing it
• respond to your feedback
• provide tools to present content from social media platforms

Tools we use

We use five tools to perform the above actions:

• USkinned – to build the site and store content
• YouTube – to embed videos
• Google Analytics – to analyse how our site is used and to make sure the site meeting the needs of those using it

Google Analytics

We don’t allow Google Analytics to use or share our analytics data, User-ID is turned off and our data retention rate is set to 14 months.

You can use this browser Add-on (external website) to opt out of Google Analytics.

Cookies

Like most websites we use cookies to collect anonymous statistics about how people use the site, and to help us keep it relevant for the user. Cookies remember bits of information from your visit to the site.

A cookie is a simple text file that's stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server. Only that server can retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. So, if we put a cookie on your computer, it can't be read by any other website.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

How we use cookies to collect statistics

To improve our service, we collect anonymous web statistics using Google Analytics.

This stores several cookies on users' computers or mobiles devices to tell us how many people have visited each web page, how they got there, and where they navigated to from there. The data collected is completely anonymous and does not store any personal details.

Changing your cookie settings

You can change your computer settings at any time to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies. How you do this depends on your web browser. Find out more about cookies.