Cookies Policy

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Why we use cookies

We use cookie tracking data to make informed decisions on whether the site is meeting your needs, which leads to us making improvements. For example, we monitor how much traffic each part of the site gets and work to improve areas which are not being found when they should be.

These cookies aren't used to identify you personally.

You will normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use ourplace.scot. 

We store information about:

• the pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
• how you got to ourplace.scot
• what you click on while you're visiting ourplace.scot

We do not:

• collect information that can be used to identify you; for example, we never receive your name or address
• make any attempt to find out the identities of people visiting ourplace.scot
• allow the tools that we use to find out the identities of people visiting ourplace.scot
• sell, trade or give your details to third parties, unless we are required to do it by law

All information we get through cookies and analytics will be treated in confidence.

We anonymise the last 3 digits of all gov.scot user IP addresses for Google Analytics, so that we can ensure that you are protected (you can read more about how this works here). We can only see a general overview of which regions and cities you may come from, not where individuals access from.

Find out more about security and privacy in Google Analytics.

You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.

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YouTube

Pages on gov.scot which contain YouTube videos will not set third-party cookies (we use YouTube-nocookie.com — you can read more here).