Disclaimer and privacy policy

Use of this site

ASH Scotland seeks to ensure that the information published on its website is up to date and accurate. However, the information on the website does not constitute legal or professional advice and ASH Scotland cannot accept any liability for actions arising from its use.

External links

Links to external sites may open in a new window. ASH Scotland cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.

Copyright

The copyright in the material on this ASH Scotland website belongs to ASH Scotland and where appropriate its partners unless otherwise stated. For example, the images on the ASH Scotland site were sourced externally and several reports on our site were also authored by external bodies; these are reproduced on the ASH Scotland website with full permission of the copyright owner. We are happy for other organisations to refer to our website in their own website, and to create hypertext links as appropriate, provided ASH Scotland is acknowledged . We are also happy for you to reproduce and distribute material from our website, for non-commercial purposes only, providing that ASH Scotland is clearly stated as the source. If in doubt or for further information please contact ASH Scotland and we will be happy to advise you.

Personal data

Any personal data collected through this website will be treated as confidential in line with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Cookies

Cookies are information packets sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.  The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

ASH Scotland uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

We also use AddThis plugin (for our blog), Twitter (for Twitter) and MailChimp widget (for our daily bulletin) to measure traffic to these external sites.

Refusing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.

For other browsers visit www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.