Scottish Online Power of Attorney and Wills Scotland

Cookie Policy

What are cookies:

We and our business partners collect information about your use of our website through cookies. Cookies are information files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in a way that matches your interests. Most major websites use cookies.

What cookies are used on this Website:

The cookies we and our business partners use on this website are broadly grouped into the following categories:

Essential – Some of the cookies on our website are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this would be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account on the website. You may not be able to use our website without these cookies.

Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our website. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our website or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited the website once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our website was performing and improve it without these cookies.

Social Sharing – We use cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about a business or product advertised on our website.

We use two types of cookies:

• Session cookies – these are cookies that are only stored while you are visiting the site

• Persistent cookies – these are cookies that are stored until an expiry date set by the website or in your browser.

The different owners of cookies on our websites

Some of the cookies on our websites have been set by third parties. These cookies include those where:

• we show third-party content, such as YouTube videos

• a third party is providing a service, such as analysing the pages that visitors to our sites view or

Third parties are responsible for any cookies they set. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us, for example analytics. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see:

1. Internet Advertising Bureau website at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ where you will be able to opt-out of receiving Interest-Based Advertising cookies from some of the third parties listed below; and/or
2. the third party’s individual privacy policy listed below:

How to turn off cookies

You can turn off cookies in your browser settings. If you do turn them off, it is important to remember that you may not be able to use the services on our websites. You can find out more about turning off cookies at the independent website allaboutcookies.org

Please note that we can’t always control third party cookies stored on your machine from our website and where this is the case you will need to visit the relevant third party’s website directly to manage cookies stored on your machine by them. Please see our "Third Party Cookies" section below.

Privacy Policy
We do not share your details with any third parties. We use your details to communicate with you for the duration of using our services and to generate legal documentation. We may occasionally send you details of other services we provide. You will be given the option unsubscribe from these services at any time.

If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium's website.

We may update this policy from time to time so you may want to check it each time you visit our website.
31 May 2012

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