Skills Development Scotland treats your privacy
very seriously. The following statement explains our policy
regarding the personal information we collect about you:
Statement of intent
Information on visitors
What is a cookie?
Use and storage of your personal information
Access to your personal information
Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit
personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address
etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such
services include newsletters or further information about our
service.
By entering your details in the fields requested,
you enable Skills Development Scotland and its service providers to
provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such
personal information, we will treat that information in accordance
with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the
information that you want to receive. Skills Development Scotland
will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet
current Internet best practice.
Information on visitors
During the course of any visit to Skills
Development Scotland's website, the pages you see, along with
something called a cookie, may be downloaded to your computer (see
point 3 for more on this). Most, if not all, websites do this,
because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things
like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has
visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking
to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can
help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to
analyse the profile of our visitors. For example, if on a previous
visit you went to, say, the 'about us' pages, then we might find
this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on
a second visit.
Both the cookies and the embedded code provide
non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the
site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors
through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other
general information. Skills Development Scotland uses this type of
information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the
site, to help it improve the services to its users.
What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will
automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that
identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not
identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do
this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic
flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the
site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for
how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to
accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not
to receive cookies at any time.
NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject
cookies you can still browse our site anonymously.
Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Skills
Development Scotland (e.g. to receive further information) we have
legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We
must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how
we will use it (see the notices on particular web pages that let
you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we
want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any
information you provide to Skills Development Scotland will only be
used within Skills Development Scotland and by its service
providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside Skills
Development Scotland without first obtaining your consent, unless
we are obliged by law to disclose it.
We will hold your personal information on our
systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and
remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will
ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in
accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the
personal information Skills Development Scotland holds about you
and to have any inaccuracies corrected.Skills Development Scotland
treats your privacy very seriously. The following statement
explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect
about you:
Statement of intent
Information on visitors
What is a cookie?
Use and storage of your personal information
Access to your personal information
Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit
personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address
etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such
services include newsletters or further information about our
service.
By entering your details in the fields requested,
you enable Skills Development Scotland and its service providers to
provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such
personal information, we will treat that information in accordance
with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the
information that you want to receive. Skills Development Scotland
will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet
current Internet best practice.
Information on visitors
During the course of any visit to Skills
Development Scotland's website, the pages you see, along with
something called a cookie, may be downloaded to your computer (see
point 3 for more on this). Most, if not all, websites do this,
because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things
like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has
visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking
to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can
help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to
analyse the profile of our visitors. For example, if on a previous
visit you went to, say, the 'about us' pages, then we might find
this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on
a second visit.
Both the cookies and the embedded code provide
non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the
site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors
through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other
general information. Skills Development Scotland uses this type of
information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the
site, to help it improve the services to its users.
What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will
automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that
identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not
identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do
this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic
flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the
site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for
how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to
accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not
to receive cookies at any time.
NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject
cookies you can still browse our site anonymously.
Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Skills
Development Scotland (e.g. to receive further information) we have
legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We
must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how
we will use it (see the notices on particular web pages that let
you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we
want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any
information you provide to Skills Development Scotland will only be
used within Skills Development Scotland and by its service
providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside Skills
Development Scotland without first obtaining your consent, unless
we are obliged by law to disclose it.
We will hold your personal information on our
systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and
remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will
ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in
accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the
personal information Skills Development Scotland holds about you
and to have any inaccuracies corrected.
Skills Development Scotland treats your privacy very
seriously. The following statement explains our policy regarding
the personal information we collect about you:
- Statement of intent
- Information on
visitors
- What is a cookie?
- Use and storage of your personal
information
- Access to your personal information
Statement of
intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit
personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address)
in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services
include newsletters or further information about our
service.
By entering your details in the fields requested,
you enable Skills Development Scotland and its service providers to
provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such
personal information, we will treat that information in accordance
with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the
information that you want to receive. Skills Development Scotland
will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet
current internet best practice.
Information on
visitors
During the course of any visit to Skills Development
Scotland's website, the pages you see, along with something called
a cookie, may be downloaded to your computer (see point 3 for more
on this). Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow
the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the
computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This
is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the
cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can help
us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse
the profile of our visitors. For example, if on a previous visit
you went to, say, the 'Our Services' pages, then we might find this
out from your cookie and highlight educational information on a
second visit.
Both the cookies and the embedded code provide
non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the
site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors
through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other
general information. Skills Development Scotland uses this type of
information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the
site, to help it improve the services to its
users.
What is a
cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will
automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that
identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not
identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do
this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic
flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the
site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for
how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to
accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not
to receive cookies at any time.
NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject
cookies you can still browse our site
anonymously.
Use and storage of
your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Skills
Development Scotland (e.g. to receive further information) we have
legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We
must collect the information fairly; that is, we must explain how
we will use it (see the notices on particular web pages that let
you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we
want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any
information you provide to Skills Development Scotland will only be
used within Skills Development Scotland and by its service
providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside Skills
Development Scotland without first obtaining your consent, unless
we are obliged by law to disclose it.
We will hold your personal information on our
systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and
remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will
ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in
accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Access to your
personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal
information Skills Development Scotland holds about you and to have
any inaccuracies corrected.