Cookie Policy

Cookie Notice

To make Sign Language Interactions and its subsidiaries and affiliates’ (collectively “Contact Scotland BSL”) websites and applications (collectively the “Sites”) work properly, and to provide the most relevant products and services to our customers, we place small data files called cookies on your computer or device. This Cookie Notice provides you with information about cookies and how to control them via our Sites.

Your consent applies to the following domains: contactscotland-bsl.org

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a website and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your device’s memory that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Cookies on our Sites may be delivered in a first-party (set by a Contact Scotland BSL website or app) or third-party (set by another website or app)context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.

Cookies Used on Our Sites

We use cookies to help us remember and process your requests, understand and save your preferences for future visits, and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. You may use the following cookies when you visit our Sites. Essential Cookies. These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our Sites and providing access to features such as interpreter bookings and other secure areas of our Sites. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet.

This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

Essential

COOKIE DURATION DESCRIPTION
cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”.
cookielawinfo-checbox-functional 11 months The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”.
cookielawinfo-checbox-others 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement 1 year The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Advertisement”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”.
viewed_cookie_policy 11 months The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Performance & Functionality Cookies.

These cookies track how you interact with our Sites so we can fix bugs and improve our user experience. These cookies may also save your user preference to make using our Sites easier.

Performance

COOKIE DURATION DESCRIPTION
YSC session This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

 

Functionality

COOKIE DURATION DESCRIPTION
player 1 year This cookie is used by Vimeo. This cookie is used to save the user’s preferences when playing embedded videos from Vimeo.

 

Analytics & Marketing Cookies.

We use analytics and marketing cookies to collect information about how visitors use our Sites. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our Sites are being used. With respect to our use of Google Analytics, we anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

The following table has more information about these cookies.

Analytics

COOKIE DURATION DESCRIPTION
_ga 2 years This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat_UA-28404129-1 1 minute This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
_gcl_au 3 months This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website.
_gid 1 day This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.
is_unique 5 years This cookie is set by StatCounter Anaytics. The cookie is used to determine whether a user is a first-time or a returning visitor and to estimate the accumulated unique visits per site.
vuid 2 years This domain of this cookie is owned by Vimeo. This cookie is used by vimeo to collect tracking information. It sets a unique ID to embed videos to the website.

 

We also use marketing cookies that deploys a cookie when a user interacts with a marketing communication, such as a marketing email or a marketing-based landing page on our website. This cookie collects personal information such as your name, which pages you visit on our website, your history arriving at our website, your purchases, and the like. Collected information is used to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns or to provide better targeting for marketing.

The following table provides more information about these types of cookies.

Marketing

COOKIE DURATION DESCRIPTION
IDE 1 year 24 days Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
NID 6 months This cookie is used to a profile based on user’s interest and display personalized ads to the users.
test_cookie 15 minutes This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 5 months 27 days This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.

 

COOKIE DURATION DESCRIPTION
_gat_gtag_UA_28404129_1 1 minute No description
CONSENT 16 years 7 months 19 days 13 hours No description
S 1 hour No description

 

Third Party Website Cookies

Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than this site for purposes such as collecting information on user behavior, demographics, or personalized marketing.

When using our Sites, you may encounter embedded content, such as YouTube videos, or you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys, or complete purchases through third party payment providers. These websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites, even if you are directed to them from our Sites.

How to Control and Delete Cookies Consent

Pop-Up

If you are in the European Union, the Cookie Consent Pop-up can be utilized to customize your cookie preferences. The tool will record when you have consented to our cookie notice and will ask for consent. The consent pop-up specifically controls non-essentially cookies set by using our Sites. Essential cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked from our website.

Using Your Browser

Many of the cookies used on our Sites can be enabled or disabled through our consent pop-up or by disabling the cookies through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser unless manually completed through your browser function.

Cookies that Have Been Set in the Past

Collection of your data from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used, however, we will stop usingthe disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked.

Questions?

For more information, feel free to contact our privacy team at info@contactscotland-bsl.org