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What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

Session cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. These facilitate various tasks such as allowing a website to identify that a user of a particular device is navigating from page to page, supporting website security or basic functionality.

The cookies we use on the tellmescotlandcotland site contain no personal information that can be used to identify you. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies.

Third Party Cookies

The site uses Google Analytics which generates statistics about visitors and visits to the tellmescotland site.

These cookies enable the function of Google Analytics. This helps us take and analyse visitor information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers and server response times. That information helps us to improve the website and your visitor experience.

The data stored by these cookies can be seen only by the relevant teams supporting tellmescotland (Improvement Service & Spider Online) and Google and never shows any confidential information.

If you take the opportunity to view other external websites when visiting tellmescotland you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don't control the setting of these cookies, so please check those third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

What if I don't want to accept cookies?

You can choose to restrict or block the cookies set by tellmescotland, or any website. You'll need to do this through your browser settings.

Please note: if you block or restrict cookies on your machine, the tellmescotland website may be unable to function correctly.

You can also visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org (opens in a new window) for comprehensive information on how to block or restrict cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You'll also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer, as well as more general information about cookies.