Site Cookies

What are cookies?

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

How we use cookies

Scotchkitchen.com does not set any cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. If this should change in the future, we will inform visitors and provide guidance on how to control and delete these cookies.

This site does use a third-party analytics company (Google Analytics) to provide anonymous visitor statistics to enable us to improve the performance of our website. This analytics function sets its own cookies to perform this service. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This information cannot be used to identify who you are, and we do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

The site also uses ‘session cookies’ which expire once you close your web browser and ‘third party cookies’, which are for content pulled in from other sites, such as videos from YouTube or content from social media platforms.

Managing cookies

Cookies can be restricted or blocked through your browser settings. Information on how to do this may be found in your browser’s Help section, links to the most commonly used browsers can be found here:

• Chrome,
• Safari
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer

The menu of most browsers will give you options of how to manage your cookies by adjusting or configuring your cookies settings. Typically, the browser will give you the option to:

• view your cookies
• allow cookies
• disable all or specific cookies
• disable all cookies when you close your browser
• block cookies
• receive notifications when you receive a cookie

You should bear in mind that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the websites you visit.

More information about cookies

In addition, the website www.aboutcookies.org contains detailed information on how to manage cookie settings for a wide variety of browsers. It also provides details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For mobile phone browsers and tablets, you may need to refer to your handset manual.