This Cookie Policy notice sets out how Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans uses cookies on our website.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to access certain areas of our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Purpose
This is used by Google Analytics. According to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Duration
The cookie expires after 10 minutes
Purpose
Used by Google Analytics for statistical purposes to analyse traffic to our website.
Duration
This cookie expires after 30 minutes.
More information
It is used by most sites and does not track or store personal data.
Purpose
Used by Google Analytics for tracking source visits (i.e where the user came from such as a search engine result, or direct link).
Duration
It expires after 6 months.
More information
It is used by most sites and does not track or store personal data.
Purpose
Used by Google Analytics to recognise users if they return to the site and any new visitors.
Duration
This cookie clears as soon as the session is closed.
More information
It is used by most sites and does not track or store personal data.
Purpose
Used by Google Analytics to identify unique visitors vs. returning visitors.
Duration
It is used by most sites and does not track or store personal data.
More information
It expires after 2 years.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
• Google Analytics
• Google Ads
How do I change my cookie settings?
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.