Privacy and Cookie Policy

Please read this privacy and cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use data and cookies on our site. This policy sets out how and why we collect, store, use 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 we are

This site https://www.scottish-taxidermy.co.uk is operated by George Jamieson, whose address is Cramond Tower, Kirk Cramond, Edinburgh, EH4 6HZ

Our website

This policy relates to your use of our website, https://www.scottish-taxidermy.co.uk (“site”).

Throughout our site, we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional services available to you. 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.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Visitor data for website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (for example, computer, smartphone or another electronic device) when you use our site. We use cookies on our site. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the site, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

We may use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site.

  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functional and required cookies. These are necessary cookies so visitors can navigate and use key features on the site such as redirection.

For information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which 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, or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Consent to use cookies and change settings

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Our use of cookies

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Cookies

Name Duration Purpose, type
Crumb Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
Cookie
Session
Locked Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
Cookie
Session
SS_ANALYTICS_ID Two years Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cookieAllowed Two years Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvr Two years Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvt 30 minutes Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
SS_SESSION_ID duration of visit Functional cookie used to identify users for the duration of their visit to our site