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Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice, which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Who are we
We are Forestry and Land Scotland, the Scottish Government agency responsible for managing Scotland’s national forests and land.
Our website
This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, forestryandland.gov.scot.
Throughout our website, we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use a website. We use cookies on our website to help us improve your experience when you visit our website and to ensure the website operates correctly during your browsing session.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information that we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential to the operation of the website, such as making sure that any features are working correctly.
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences at any time while using our website. It may be necessary to refresh the page or revisit the website for the updated settings to take effect.
Click here to change your cookie settings.
Necessary cookies
| Name | Purpose | Domain | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookiefirst-consent | This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily. | forestryandland.gov.scot | 12 months |
| PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a randomly generated number. How it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. | g0.ipcamlive.com | Session |
| cookiefirst-id | This cookie contains your unique ID so CookieFirst can identify unique visitors to this website | forestryandland.gov.scot | Persistent |
| cookiefirst-consent | This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily. | forestryandland.gov.scot | Persistent |
Performance cookies
| Name | Purpose | Domain | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hjSessionUser_****** | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | forestryandland.gov.scot | 11 months 4 weeks 2 days 9 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | By setting this token, YouTube and therefore Google can ensure that a single user sees a consistent version of an experimental feature across different sessions or pages (a 'staged rollout' or 'A/B test') | youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 53 seconds |
| _ga_******** | This cookie stores a unique ID for a website visitor and tracks how the visitor users the website. The data is used for statistics, data | forestryandland.gov.scot | 1 year 1 month 4 days 13 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID for a website visitor to track how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics, and data transfer to third coutries: USA. Google LLC. is certified under the Data Privacy Framework, indicating that your rights as a data subject can be guaranteed. | forestryandland.gov.scot | 1 year 1 month 4 days 13 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| _hjSession_****** | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | forestryandland.gov.scot | 29 minutes, 57 seconds |
Functional cookies
| Name | Purpose | Domain | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie allows YouTube to check bandwith usage | YouTube | 5 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 59 minutes, 51 seconds |
| YSC | Register unique IDs and keep statistics on which videos users have viewed from YouTube | youtube.com | Session |
Advertising cookies
| Name | Purpose | Domain | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-YEC | This cookie may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. | youtube.com | Session |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | This cookie is used to track and enrich the users privacy settings on YouTube | youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 51 seconds |
Unclassified cookies
| Name | Domain | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-YNID | youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 52 seconds |
Third party access to the cookies
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so
If you don’t want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about our cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to dataprotection@forestryandland.gov.scot or write to us at:
Head of Records and Data Protection
Forestry and Land Scotland
Apex 1
99 Haymarket Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 5HD
Do you need extra help?
If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille), please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).
Changes to this policy
This policy was published on 24 May 2018 and last updated on 14 March 2022.
We may change this policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll inform you via our website.