Our website bvcc.scot uses cookies for various purposes as detailed below.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your device.
We use the following types of cookies:
| Cookie Type | Description |
| Necessary | These are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. The website cannot function without these cookies. |
| Functionality | These are used to allow certain functions to be carried out on the website such as our chat box service or to recognise you when you return to our website. These are optional but we recommend that these cookies are allowed to be able to use the features on the 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). |
| Analytical | These are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. These are anonymised before collection and are not accessible in the reporting of the website. |
| Third Party | These cookies are used by third parties on our website to provide specific functions, for example displaying and playing video content. |
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, we can store Necessary cookies on your device without your consent. For all other types of cookies, we require your permission.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy: bvcc.scot/privacy
You can find our more information about individual cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them in the table below.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Purpose | Expiry Period |
| CIVIC Cookie Control | Necessary | Enables use of the cookie acceptance pop up on the website and settings to be remembered. | 30 Days |
| _ga | Analytic | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site | 2 years |
| _gat | Analytic | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 minute |
| _gid | Analytic | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site | 24 hours |
Third Parties
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 video content and web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- Vimeo
Changing cookie settings
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent for all non-Necessary Cookies. To do this please contact us at dpo@robertson.co.uk
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies. To prevent Google Analytics tracking in your browser, you may use the Google Analytic Opt-Out Browser Add: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
Please note that if you block cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features on our website. This may also “break” certain elements of our website and prevent them from functioning correctly for you only.
Updates to this Notice
We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Notice at any time. Any changes to this Cookie Notice will be contained here. Please refer to this page regularly to keep up to date. This Cookie Policy was last updated 25/07/2022 and supersedes all previous versions.