Privacy Policy - Cookies

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Why we use cookies

We use count14.scot 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.

Google Analytics

This site places small files, known as 'cookies' , onto your computer to collect information about how you browse. These cookies aren'tused to identify you personally.

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

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Measuring site usage

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use count14.scot. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to help us make improvements.

We store information about:

  • The pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
  • How you got to count14.scot
  • What you click on while you're visiting count14.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 count14.scot
  • Allow the tools that we use to find out the identities of people visiting count14.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.

Find out more about security and privacy in Google Analytics.

Cookies for count14.scot

We use the following cookies:

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDTraffic source / campaign data

PURPOSEStore which advertising campaign drove a user to visit

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDVisit Timestamp

PURPOSETie back conversion events to earlier visits

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDDevice ID (generated)

PURPOSEUniquely identify a device

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDAdvertising and marketing effectiveness

PURPOSETo track users subsequent visits to the web address. No personal data can be collected.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDDemographic and behavioral interests

PURPOSEThis cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables the website to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular, it enables us to see how our users move between devices when accessing the website and Facebook, to ensure that the Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the website. To opt-out please see https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDAdvertising and marketing effectiveness

PURPOSEThese cookies are used by Facebook to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads shown either on Facebook or other digital platforms powered by Facebook.

TYPEMarketing

DATA STOREDAdvertising and marketing effectiveness

PURPOSEThe cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDTraffic source / campaign data

PURPOSEGoogle registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use our websites.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDTraffic source / campaign data

PURPOSEThis 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.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDTraffic source / campaign data

PURPOSEThis 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 is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDTraffic source / campaign data

PURPOSEThis cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDA unique user ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use our websites

PURPOSEThis cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDA unique user ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use our websites

PURPOSEThis cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDA unique user ID that is used to identify users included in audience samples

PURPOSEThis session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.

TYPEPersistent

DATA STOREDPreferences

PURPOSEThe NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.