If you want to know more about the use of cookies on this website, Scotland Discovery Guide, you are in the right place. Below, we will explain what cookies are exactly, what types of cookies we use and for what purposes, and how you can exercise your right to configure your browser and reject the use of them.
However, you should know that if you decide not to use some cookies, this website may not work perfectly, affecting your user experience.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages or blogs.
Cookies allow that page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about your browsing habits or your computer, and depending on the information they contain and how you use your computer, they can be used to recognize you.
The user’s browser memorizes cookies on the hard drive only during the current session, taking up minimal memory space and not harming the computer. Cookies do not contain any specific personal information, and most of them are deleted from the hard drive at the end of the browser session (called session cookies).
Most browsers accept cookies as standard and, regardless of them, allow or prevent temporary or stored cookies in the security settings.
Cookies are associated with the browser, not the person, so they do not usually store sensitive information about you such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, or personal information, etc. The data they store is of a technical, statistical, personal preferences, content customization, etc. nature.
ACCEPTANCE OF COOKIES: CURRENT REGULATIONS
By accessing this website and under current data protection regulations, we inform you about the use of cookies, giving you the option to expressly accept them and access more information through this Cookies Policy.
You should know that, by continuing to browse, you will give your consent to the use of these cookies. However, you can change your mind and block their use through your browser.
For your peace of mind, this website complies with the current regulations regarding the use of cookies and your personal data:
- The LSSI-CE regulation (Law of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce)
- The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on protecting individuals regarding the processing of personal data, which unifies the regulation of the processing of personal data in the countries of the EU.
This Cookies Policy may be changed at any time to adapt to legislative developments or changes in our activities, with the current version being the one published on the website at any time.
TYPES OF COOKIES
In order to offer you a better user experience, get analytical data, store and retrieve information about your browsing habits or your computer, and develop our activity, this website, Scotland Discovery Guide uses its own and third-party cookies.
What types of cookies does this website use?
Technical cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to browse a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services that exist in it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing parts of restricted access, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the process of purchasing an order, requesting registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks.
Personalization cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which they access the service, the regional configuration from which they access the service, etc.
Analytical cookies: These are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thus carry out the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. To do this, we analyze your navigation on our website in order to improve the range of products or services we offer.
Advertising cookies: These are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to manage the most efficient possible way the offer of the advertising spaces that are on the website, adapting the content of the ad to the content of the service requested or to the use that you make of our website. To do this, we can analyze your Internet browsing habits and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.
Behavioral advertising cookies: These are cookies that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on a web page, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behavior of users got through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows developing a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
Third-party cookies: This website Scotland Discovery Guide may use third-party services that, on behalf of Google, will collect information for statistical purposes, use of the site by the user, and for the provision of other services related to the activity of the website and other Internet services.
In particular, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. with its headquarters in the United States, with its main office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043. For the provision of these services, Google uses cookies that collect information, including the user’s IP address, which will be transmitted, processed, and stored by Google in the terms set forth on the Google.com website. This includes the transmission of such information to third parties for legal reasons or when such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.