Privacy Policy Of Virtual Scotland
Information about our Organisation and Web site
Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like Virtual Scotland. We are based in Scotland. Our principal activity is: Community web site portal. Our privacy policy covers Virtual Scotland and The Virtual Hebrides:
Organisation: Virtual Scotland,12 Dunmore Crescent,Leverburgh, Western Isles, Scotland HS5 3TT.
Sites: www.virtualscotland.co.uk www.virtualhebrides.com
Privacy Compliance
We have legal obligations, under the Data Protection Act 1998.. If you provide us with personal information we will not pass this information on to a third party but if we intend to use this information in any way we will contact you directly for permission.
Automatic Collection of Information
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Third Party Advertisements
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies,
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.
We partner with ValueClick to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our website. ValueClick may use cookies or web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information during your visit to this website in order to help show advertisements on other websites likely to be more interesting to you. To learn more about this “behavioral advertising” practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information, you can visit
http://www.valueclickmedia.com/member_privacy.shtml
Google - We no longer have Google adverts appearing on this site.