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Disclaimer
Scotland's Culture seeks to ensure that the information published on its website is up to date and accurate. However, the information on the website does not constitute legal or professional advice and Scotland's Culture cannot accept any liability for actions arising from its use. Scotland's Culture cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.

Any personal data collected through this website will be treated as confidential in line with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Cookies and Website Traffic Analysis
When users enter Scoland's Culture their computers will automatically be issued with ‘cookies’. Cookies are text files which identify users’ computers to the Scotland's Cultures server. The website then creates "session" cookies to store some of the preferences of users moving around the website, e.g. retaining a text-only preference. Cookies in themselves do not identify individual users but identify only the computer used and they are deleted on departure from the website.

Many websites do this to track traffic flows, whenever users visit those websites.

Scotland's Culture uses third-party cookies to measure use of the website including number of visitors, how frequently pages are viewed, and the city and country of origin of users. This helps to determine what is popular and can influence future content and development. For this purpose, Scotland's Culture uses Nedstat Pro of Nedstat Bv to measure and analyse usage of the website. The information collected by Scotland's Culture will include IP Address, pages visited, browser type and operating system. The data will not be used to identify any user personally.

Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.

Log files
Log files stored on Scotland's Cultures web server allow the recording and analysis of users' use of the website. Log files do not contain any personal information.

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Last updated:01 Dec 2003

Date created:01 Dec 2003

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