Cookies Policy |
What are cookies?
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device (eg computer or mobile phone). These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
Enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
Recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
Analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with government services so we can make them better
If you'd like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, visit the AboutCookies website.
Can I opt out of cookies?
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The 'Help' function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit the AboutCookies website, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine, as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to manage cookies on your mobile phone, you will need to refer to your manual.
To opt out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.
How do you disable cookies?
All types of cookies can be removed from your PC but there may be some deterioration in the service you receive (for example, you may receive many pop up boxes containing the same advertisements or you may not be able to access a page you earlier personalised).
Your browser lets you choose whether to accept, not to accept or to be warned before accepting cookies. These settings can be found in the advanced preferences
In Internet Explorer 6 select: Tools menu / Internet options / Privacy
In Netscape 7.1 select: Edit menu / Preferences / Privacy and Security / Cookies
In Firefox select: Tools menu / Options / Privacy / Cookies
For removing the "Remember me" cookie, just unpick the box when you sign in.
First Party Cookies
AscotMatters uses Google Analytics to see which pages are popular. These cookies are used to carry out statistical analysis of page use, interactions and user paths. We use this to understand how the site is being used and improve the user experience. User data is anonymous.
External Web Services
Sometimes, we also embed photos and video content from websites such as Vimeo. As a result, when you visit a page which features such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We cannot prevent these sites or domains from collecting information on your use of this content. If you are not logged in to their services then they will not know who you are but may still gather anonymous usage information (eg number of views, plays, loads etc). We do not control these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about them and how you can opt out.