Skip to navigation Harrow Council Log in / Register SEARCH SERVICES Home Your Council Data protection We are carrying out some short term essential maintenance today which may impact some of our planning, map and location services on our website. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Close Data protection In this section Data protection principles GDPR Harrow Council's Privacy Notice You are here: Cookies Internet browser security Data transparency Website terms Cookies Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or smartphone to collect data. They can help to make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. Without them the website may think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page. Cookies also tell us what information you’re most interested in and in return we can serve you the information you want. 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It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires when you close the browser visitedPages This cookie stores a list of pages you have visited on the site, up to a maximum of 20. If you visit more than 20 pages the oldest page visit is discarded from the cookie. Expires within 1 year location This cookie stores your device location in the form of latitude and longitude coordinates, if you choose to share your location. This help us to provide you with information which is relevant to your location. Expires within 1 year TestCookie Used to test whether your browser can accept cookie. Expires when you close the browser cfduid This cookie is set by Cloudfare and is ued to speed up page load times and for detecting bots on the website. Expires when you close the browser MyHarrow Account MyHarrow account is the citizen account on which you can view your Council Tax, Benefits, planning and school waiting list information. It uses the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry JSESSIONID This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again or submit a form. Expires when you close the browser Lwa Database GUID (Globally Unique ID). Encrypted value which allows us to identify the relevant environment being accessed. Expires when you close the browser ASP.NETSessionId This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again or submit a form. Expires when you close the browser Online forms Our online forms enable users to self-serve with applications, subscriptions, reports and bookings. It uses the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry APPLANG This tells us the language you are using to visit the site e.g English Expires in 24 hours PHPSESSID This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires in 6 hours localtime This cookie allows us to calculate your local time from the Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) Expires when you close the browser JSESSIONID This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again or submit a form. Expires when you close the browser ASP.NETSessionId This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again or submit a form Expires when you close the browser Lwa Database GUID (Globally Unique ID). Encrypted value which allows us to identify the relevant section being accessed. Expires when you close the browser Website analytics - Webtrends Webtrends is the service Harrow Council uses to collect analytics on the use of its websites. These cookies are used to collect information about how our visitors use our site. We use the information to help us to improve the website. The data is collected anonymously. It uses the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry WTFPC This is a first party cookie which tracks your visits across our website and MyHarrow Account. It help us to know if you are new or returning visitor. Expires in 24 hours ACOOKIE This cookie is used to track the pages you visit across our website and MyHarrow Account. Expires in 24 hours WEBTRENDSID This cookie records the journey you have taken across the website and MyHarrow Account. The data is collected anonymously. It help us to know if you are new or returning visitor. Expires in 24 hours WTLOPTOUT This is an optional cookie that you can choose to download to prevent tracking from our website. Not applicable Website analytics - Hotjar We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. Maps The maps resource provides interactive online maps embedded within our web pages. They use the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry connect.sid This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again Expires when you close the browser Planning portal This database holds all the planning applications submitted to Harrow Council. It uses the following cookies: Cookie Cookie function Expiry ASP.NETSessionId This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires when you close the browser PHPSESSID This cookie is used to maintain continuity as you navigate around the site. It enables us to keep you logged in to the site or submit a form. Expires when you close the browser visitedPages This cookie stores a list of pages you have visited on the site, up to a maximum of 20. If you visit more than 20 pages the oldest page visit is discarded from the cookie Expires within 1 year WTFPC This is a first party cookie which tracks your visits across our website. It help us to know if you are new or returning visitor. Expires in 24 hours Consultations - Inovem Inovem is the software which provides the framework for our online consultations and surveys. It uses the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry JSESSIONID This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires when you close the browser Modern.gov The modern.gov site holds documents, minutes of meetings and agendas for all matters relating to the democratic process of the council. It uses the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry ASP.NETSessionId This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires when you close the browser mglogon This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires when you close the browser Fiso website The Fiso website is a directory of resources for the care of families and children. It uses the cookies below. Cookie Cookie function Expiry PELanguageCookie This cookie is the Public Enquiry language, defaults to English (1) – could be Welsh etc. Expires when you close the browser SynergyWebSesh This cookie identifies you as a unique user while you are browsing the website. No personal information is stored. It enhances your experience by allowing us to remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse the website without having to log in again. Expires when you close the browser Previous page : Harrow Council's Privacy Notice Next page : Internet browser security Harrow Council Privacy Cookies Accessibility Contact Jobs Consultations MyHarrow Account Harrow Council © 2021 Designed and Powered by Jadu