Privacy and Cookie Notice
This privacy and cookie notice sets out how we, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, uses and protects any information that you give when you interact with the website (www.makesmokinghistory.co.uk).
The kind of information we collect
We collect information on how you use our website, such as how often you visit, how you get to it (from search or social media, for instance), which pages you view and from which page you leave the site.
In addition, we may collect your information via social media or email if you contact us relating to the website or the Partnership’s work. In this case, we’ll use the contact details you give us to respond.
Purpose(s)
We may use the information we collect from you:
- to administer, monitor and improve the website
- to contact you directly about a question you ask us via social media or email
- to develop and carry out marketing and advertising activity and to show you information that is of interest to you, based on our understanding of your preferences
- for analysis so we can monitor and improve products, services, websites and apps, or develop new ones
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites and their applications. Clicking on those links and taking any other actions on those websites may allow those third parties to collect information about you. We’re not responsible for those websites and don’t have any control over how they collect information, so we recommend that you read the privacy statement of any site linked to this one.
Cookies and tracking
Like most websites, this website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. Cookies are small pieces of data sent by a website and stored on a user’s computer, mobile or tablet to memorise that user’s web-browsing activity.
When you use this website, we and third-party companies collect information by using cookies and other technologies such as pixel tags (for simplicity we refer to all such technologies as ‘cookies’). We use cookies to help us improve our website and the service it provides, as well as to carry out online marketing and advertising activity.
We work with carefully selected partners to show both personalised and non-personalised ads. These partners include advertising agencies and tech platforms who perform data analysis to enable personalised ad delivery and tracking. These companies may also use data collected from cookies dropped by other websites you have browsed on your device. This enables the display of ads based on your browsing behaviour, which may mean the ads you see are more relevant to your interests. This can also help to limit the frequency of adverts you see across the internet if you have already seen a particular ad.
If you’d prefer not to use cookies when visiting our website, please reset your cookie settings.
To find out more about cookies visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.
Information sharing
The information processed via this website is managed by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, however, carefully selected partners may also have access to anonymised and aggregate analytics data.
Your information collected via this website will not be transferred outside the European Economic Area.
Responsibility for data sits with Manchester Health and Care Commissioning, which is a partnership between Manchester City Council and NHS Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group. View their privacy policy at https://www.mhcc.nhs.uk/about-us/how-we-use-your-information/
Your rights
You have certain legal rights, including a right to have your information processed fairly and lawfully and a right to access any personal data we hold about you.
For further details about data protection or privacy rights, you can view the following websites or contact the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which oversees data protection compliance in the UK:
Updates
Last updated 9 August 2021. Please note we may update or revise this Privacy and Cookie Notice at any time.