Terms and privacy
Access to and use of 'www.beproudlovemanchester.co.uk' - the "Site" is provided by the Manchester City Council (the "Council") subject to the following terms:
Our Contract
1. By using the Site you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the Site. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use the Site.
2. The Council reserves the right at any time without notice to revise the content of the Site (including the services offered by the Council) and these terms of use. Any changes to these terms of use will be posted on the Site and by continuing to use the Site following any such change you will signify that you agree to be bound by the revised terms. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes.
Our Promises
3. The Council will permit you to access, use and interact with the Site subject to these terms of use.
4. The Council will exercise reasonable care in compiling the Site, use reasonable efforts to make the Site available to you at all times; and take the steps set out in our privacy policy to endeavour to secure any personal information you give us.
Exclusions and Limitations
5. The Council does not represent or warrant that access to the Site, or any part of it will be uninterrupted, reliable or fault free.
6. The Council does not represent or warrant to you that the Site or any of its contents will be accurate, complete or that the Site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
7. The Council does not represent or warrant that any services (whether or not provided by the Council) will be provided with due care and skill.
8. To the extent permitted by law, the Council excludes all liability (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise and whether or not due to our negligence) which the Council may otherwise have to you as a result of:
a. any technical, factual, textual or typographical inaccuracies, errors or omissions on or relating to the Site or any information on the Site;
b. the unavailability of the Site (or any part of it), goods or services;
c. any delay in providing, or failure to provide or make available, goods or services or any negligent provision of goods or services; or
d. any misrepresentation on or relating to the Site, the goods or the services (other than a fraudulent misrepresentation made by the Council or on its behalf).
9. The Council is providing the Site on an 'as is' basis and makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the Site or its contents and disclaims all such representations and warranties. In addition the Council makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the information and related graphics published in the Site. The information contained in the Site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. All liability of the Council howsoever arising for any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
10. Neither the Council nor any of its employees or other representatives will be liable for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of the Site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of business; loss of opportunity; loss of goodwill or injury to reputation and claims of third parties.
11. None of the above exclusions shall affect any statutory rights, which are not capable of being excluded. However in such case the Council's obligation, where permitted by law, will be limited to the re-supply of the Site, good or service to you.
12. Each of the above exclusions or limitations shall be construed as a separate, and severable, provision of these terms of use.
Links to other sites
13. Certain links, including hypertext links, in the Site will take you outside the Site. Links are provided for your convenience and inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by the Council of the linked site, its operator or its content. The Council is not responsible for the content of any website outside the Site other than those listed in paragraph 10 below.
14. The Council operates a number of other websites (listed below), linked from the Site, enabling users to make on-line payments and to access currently available on-line services. These websites are covered by separate privacy policies (and terms of use).
a. Manchester City Council e-services
b. Rent and Benefit Calculator Manchester
c. Homefinder
d. Burial Records
e. Manchester Schoolfinder
f. Adult Education Course Finder
Use of the Site
15. You agree that you will use the Site for your own personal purposes and that you shall not exploit the Site or any of its contents for any commercial purpose. Any other use of materials on the Site (including reproduction for purposes other than for own personal use) and alteration, modification, distribution, or republication without the Council's prior written permission is strictly prohibited.
Intellectual Property
16. All rights in the design, text, graphics and other material on the Site and the selection or arrangement thereof are the copyright, design rights and trademarks of the Council or other third parties. Nothing contained in these terms of use shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, design right or copyright of the Council or any other third party.
Information you provide
17. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to the Site (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) by submitting your contribution (whether to a chat room, bulletin board or otherwise), you grant the Council a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any content (in whole or part) you upload, post or email and / or to incorporate such content in other works in any form, media technology now and developed.
18. You acknowledge and agree that such material is not contributed subject to any obligation of confidence. If you do not want to grant to the Council the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to the Site.
On-line Conduct
19. You agree that you will not use any chat area or any part of the Site to:
a. Upload, post or email any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
b. Harm minors in any way;
c. Impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origin of any content;
d. 'stalk' or otherwise harass another;
e. collect or store personal data about other users;
f. upload, post or email any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
g. upload post or email any content that infringes any intellectual property rights of any party;
h. upload, post or email any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', or any other form of solicitation;
i. upload, post or email any content that contains computer viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment;
j. disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to scroll faster than other users of the chat areas are able to type or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges; or
k. violate any applicable national or international laws or regulations.
20. You agree to indemnify the Council against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the Council as a result of your breach of this warranty. You also waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Site and the purposes specified above.
The use of your information
21. You agree that the Council may collect, store and use information about you in accordance with the Council's Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree to be bound by the terms of the Council's Privacy Policy.
Access
22. The Council reserves the right in its sole discretion to deny users access to the Site or any part of the Site without notice and to decline to provide the service to any user that is in breach of these terms of use.
General
23. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on the Site then the latter shall prevail.
24. These terms of use (and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to them or their formation) shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and, for these purposes, the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of English Courts.
25. The enforceability or otherwise of any provisions of these terms of use shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of these terms of use.
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Website Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Policy
Our Policy
This privacy policy applies only to www.beproudlovemanchester.co.uk
Manchester City Council (the "Council") is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 the Council has a legal duty to protect any personal information it collects from you.
This privacy policy explains how the Council uses the information it collects about you and procedures that the Council has in place to safeguard your privacy.
The personal information we collect and how we use it
The Council does not capture and store any personal information about an individual who accesses this website, except where he or she voluntarily chooses to give the Council personal information via email, or by using an electronic form on the website, or by enquiring about any of the Council's services.
In these circumstances, any personal information supplied will only be used to provide the requested information or service unless wider purposes are specified in the form on which the information is supplied or at the point of collection on the website, in which case the information may be used for any of those wider purposes.
Statistical data
The Council may also use aggregate information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop the website and our services and may provide such aggregate information to third parties. These statistics will not include information that can be used to identify any individual.
Disclosure
The Council will only hold your information for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Personal information is not disclosed to third parties unless this is indicated on the web page and/or relevant form at the point of collecting the information or as required or allowed by law.
Use of cookies
The Council uses cookies on its site. A cookie is a text file that identifies your computer to the Council's server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used.
Cookies are not used to collect any personal information.
You have the opportunity to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The way in which you do this depends upon the web browser which you use. Please refer to the "Help" function for your browser. If you accept cookies, they may remain on your computer for many years, unless you delete them. Please note that turning off cookies may limit your use of our website and website services.
IP addresses
To be able to administrate some features of the website in an efficient and secure manner, we collect and store IP addresses during a limited period of time. The IP address is a unique number which make it possible to identify a visitors connection to the Internet and it is automatically reported by your web browser each time you view a website. This automatically generated information is not used to collect data about visitors’ names or e-mail addresses or other information that directly identifies a private individual.
How we protect your information
All the personal information collected via this website is recorded in a secure database.
All the Council's employees and data processors, who have access to or are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of that information.
The Council ensures that your personal data will not be disclosed to government institutions and authorities except if required or allowed by law.
Email security
Please note that unless encrypted, email messages sent via the internet may not be secure and could be intercepted and read by someone else. Please bear this in mind when deciding whether to include personal or sensitive information in any email messages you intend to send.
Please see the Council's email disclaimer.
Your consent
By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If the Council changes this privacy policy it will post the changes on this page. Continued use of the service will signify that you agree to any such changes.
Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission before hand whenever you provide personal information to the Council's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
Data Protection
The Council will process any personal information that it collects in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. If you wish to access personal information collected from you via this website or if you have an enquiry or concern regarding the processing of personal data by Manchester City Council, please contact:
Information Compliance Officer
Manchester City Council,
Town Hall,
Albert Square,
MANCHESTER,
M60 2LA
tel: 0161 234 4415
email: informationcompliance@manchester.gov.uk
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you can request a copy of your information and the Council will provide you with a legible copy of the personal information it holds and to which you are entitled. This will be sent to you within 40 days of your request- although the Council almost always requires proof of your identity before supplying the information (in order to mitigate the risk of supplying information to the wrong person) and may ask you for further information to assist in locating your personal information. You may have to pay a small charge before the information is supplied.
If you remain dissatisfied after raising an issue about this policy and/or a request to access personal information collected from you via this site, you may also contact:
The Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF
Email Disclaimer
Email Disclaimer
Email messages sent from users of Manchester City Council's email systems have a legal disclaimer statement appended automatically. The disclaimer statement includes a hyperlink to this web page.
Any opinions expressed in the email message you have received are those of the individual and not necessarily of Manchester City Council or other organisations which are hosted on the Council's mail servers.
Unless encrypted, email messages passing over the internet are not secure and could be intercepted and read by someone else. Please bear this in mind when deciding what information to include in any email messages you intend to send to Manchester City Council.
Confidentiality: Email messages and any file attachments sent by the Council may contain confidential or legally privileged information and are only intended for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, any onward transmission of the email is strictly prohibited. If you have received the email in error, you should delete the message and any attachments immediately, including any backups and temporary files and notify: internet.administrators@manchester.gov.uk
Monitoring: The City Council automatically monitors both outgoing and incoming email communications. You should therefore be aware that if you send an email to a person within the Council it will be subject to monitoring for lawful business purposes and will be stored and disposed of in accordance with the Council's archiving/back up policies.
Security and Viruses: Although the Council virus scans incoming and outgoing emails (including file attachments) it cannot guarantee that the content of an email communication or any file attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted or amended as it passes over the internet. The onus is on the recipient to check the communication is virus-free. The Council accepts no responsibility for any damage caused by receiving emails from our email systems and/or hosted domains.
Access: As a public authority, the Council is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Under this legislation the Council may be required to disclose the content of an email (or a response to it) unless the information it contains is protected from disclosure under an exemption in the Act.
If you have any queries please contact: informationcompliance@manchester.gov.uk
