We take your privacy, and the legislation that protects it in the UK and beyond, seriously.
This policy is written as plainly as possible, and we welcome comments, questions and clarifications – just get in touch.
Scotland’s Towns Partnership
Scotland’s Towns Partnership is Scotland’s largest towns’ collective; representing and promoting the diversity of our towns and places, and supporting those organisations and groups that have an interest in or ownership of them.
In order to be able to undertake our work and inform our network about the activities and resources available to support towns, we make use of personal information – almost wholly basic contact details – which users provide us with. In this notice you can read how we collect and use personal information, as well as your rights in relation to this. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Importantly, any personal data collected through this website and held by STP, Brightstar Scotland or its associates is treated in line with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016.
Scotland’s Towns Partnership also manage the following websites and campaigns: Scotland’s Towns Partnership, Scotland Loves Local and Understanding Scotland’s Places. The data processed by Scotland’s Improvement Districts under the responsibility of Scotland’s Towns Partnership is held in separate files and folders in the details mentioned below. Personal Information data associated with these sites are managed by Scotland’s Towns Partnership.
Scotland’s Towns Ltd (hereafter, “Scotland’s Towns Partnership”, or “STP”) 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 STP cannot accept any liability for actions arising from its use. STP cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.
When you visit www.towntoolkit.scot, WordPress may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through www.scotlandstowns.org. A cookie does not collect personal information about you. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of www.towntoolkit.scot may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Scotland’s Towns Partnership uses Google Analytics to help understand use of www.towntoolkit.scot. This service collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address, and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. Google analytics will not track users until they click ‘accept’ on the cookie banner.
This Website contains links to other sites, including social media feeds and embedded content. Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly. Please be aware that Scotland’s Towns is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites via links, and additionally cannot verify the accuracy of the information contained on external sites – by linking to them, we are not endorsing them. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement does not apply to information collected by other websites.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email or by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
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