[Video] An introduction to the Scottish Investment Trust

Cookie policy

The Scottish’s website (www.thescottish.co.uk) uses cookies. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to The Scottish’s use of cookies.

These cookies do not collect any information which could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our website works and understand what interests our website’s users.

Our privacy policy can be found via this link.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The Scottish uses cookies to record when you have confirmed that you accept the use of cookies on the website. This helps us to make sure that you do not have to accept the use of cookies every time you move to another page on the website.

The only other cookies in use on The Scottish’s website are provided by Google Analytics in order to collect anonymous website usage statistics. “Performance” cookies such as these collect information about how users navigate the website. They identify how users interact with our website, any errors that occur, which pages are not often used, which pages take a long time to load, which pages users tend to visit and in what order.

Cookie	Cookies type/duration	Category of cookies as defined in the ICC Cookie Guide	Purpose
Sitecore global session	Each session	Functionality	To record when a user has confirmed they accept the use of cookies on the site.  It saves users having to accept each time they  move to a new page
Google Analytics	Analytics/2 years	Performance	Anonymous website usage statistics
_ga			Anonymous website usage statistics
_gat			Anonymous website usage statistics
_utma			Anonymous website usage statistics
_utmt			Anonymous website usage statistics
_utmb			Anonymous website usage statistics
_utmc			Anonymous website usage statistics
_utmz			Anonymous website usage statistics
_utmv			Anonymous website usage statistics

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future or to disable any cookies, you can do so by changing your browser setting, please refer to your Internet browser’s instructions by clicking ‘Help’ in its menu.

The site www.allaboutcookies.org includes further information about cookies in general and instructions for managing cookies on many commonly used browsers, or you may consult your browser provider for such instructions.

Further on Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here.