Privacy Policy

Information entered by you or your organisation is not available to anybody else unless submitted to the council. If submitted, the information is only available to authorised users within the council. Your details will not be passed on to any third parties unless you have given prior consent.

All sensitive transactions on the site are performed using the HTTPS protocol, which encrypts the data passing between your browser and the server. The identity of the server is guaranteed by a trusted certificate identifying the site to your browser.

This website should function with any recent browser. To better protect your security when using the internet, we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the latest version available and check regularly for security updates.

This website uses "cookies" which are small text files placed on your computer to help the website maintain security. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you will not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

These cookies are essential for various parts of the website to function properly.

Name Description Expiry
WebSessionId This cookie holds a unique identifier to identify your web session When you close your browser
__RequestVerificationToken This cookie holds a unique identifier to identify your web session When you close your browser
ONSCode This cookie is used to identify the local authority that you are using When you close your browser

These cookies enable your web browser to remember what privacy options you have chosen when visiting the Client Finance Portal website.

Name Description Expiry
CFPcookie-message This cookie remembers that you have answered the question about using performance tracking cookies for the Client Finance Portal website 1 month
CFPtracker-cookie If you chose to allow performance tracking, then this cookie will be present and remembers the fact that you chose to allow performance tracking for the Client Finance Portal website 1 month

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

You can disable Google Analytics by clicking on the "Continue without Google Analytics" button in the cookie warning message, which can be displayed by clicking here. If you choose "Continue with all cookies" then you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Name Description Expiry
_ga This cookie helps us count how many people visit the Client Finance Portal website by tracking if you’ve visited before 2 years
_gid This cookie helps us count how many people visit the Client Finance Portal website by tracking if you’ve visited before 1 day
_gat_ONSCodeLive This cookie is used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made 1 minute