Online Privacy Practices

Young Scot is fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act") and ensures that it complies with all protection that the Act affords to you. Further information about the Act is available on the Internet at www.ico.gov.uk. Young Scot recognises that it must protect your personal privacy while allowing you to enjoy the services which are available for you to access on the Young Scot Homecoming website (the "Website"). This policy lets you know the uses which are made of the different types of information which you give to us when you access our Website.

Information Collected

Young Scot may collect and process the following details about you:

• Details that you provide by filling in forms on the Website. This includes details provided at the time of registering with the Website, subscribing to any of the services on the Website, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for details when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Once we have obtained details from you, we may use those details:

• To contact you in relation to your registration with the Website, in relation to any material you post on the Website and in relation to any queries you may have submitted to Young Scot.
• To provide you with information or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted by Young Scot for such purposes.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Young Scot.
• To notify you about changes to our Website.
• For any purposes that you agree to by accepting the Terms and Conditions of Use which can be accessed at Terms and Conditions.

Cookies

Young Scot does not use cookies for collecting or storing personal information about you. You should be aware though that we do use a form of temporary cookie called a "session cookie" to allow our website to function effectively. Session cookies only store a "session ID" - a string of random characters - which allows the website to group together and distinguish page requests from your browser during each browsing session. They are not stored on your computer's hard disk and are held in memory, expiring automatically when you close down your browser. Please note though that if for any reason you do not want session cookies to be temporarily stored in the memory of your computer, you should not make any further use of our website.

Further Information on Data Protection and Personal Privacy

For further information from Young Scot on their data protection and privacy policies, you should contact info@youngscot.org. You should note that use of this website is subject to our Terms and Conditions.