Privacy and Cookies

Privacy: This site is owned and managed by the Council of the Isles of Scilly. The Council's data protection policy can be viewed on the the Council of the Isles of Scilly website: www.scilly.gov.uk/privacy-cookies 

 

Cookies:  This site uses Cookies. Cookies are small data files that improve your experience of using this website. Cookies do not identify you personally.

 

Managing the cookies on your computer:  You can restrict or block cookies set by our website and others by changing the settings in your browser. Doing this however may impact the way our website works for you in the future. To find out more about restricting or blocking cookies in different browsers please visit the About Cookies website: www.aboutcookies.org.uk
 

Website management: Our website is developed using a website hosting company Squarespace.com. To enable the website to run effectively the following cookies are on the website, these also ensure your security when using our website and provide analytics on the website.

  • To be updated 

Third party cookies:  Third party cookies are set by other websites. We use their online tools to make our website work better for you. Measuring website usage through Google analytics We use Google Analytics to view statistics on the way you use our website. We can check:

  • How many people have visited our website and what content they look at

  • How you got to our site

  • How many times documents have been downloaded

  • What people are looking for on our website

 

We use the following third party cookies set by Google Analytics.

  • _ga Used to distinguish users and expires after two years.

  • _gid Used to distinguish users and expires after 24 hours.

  • _gat Used to throttle request rate and expires after 24 hours. collect Used to send date to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour, expires end of session.

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For more information, please read Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB 

 

Embedded content: We embed videos on some pages of our website and also a Mailchimp form and surveys. These services set cookies when you visit a page that includes their content