Cookies and Privacy policy
This page applies to the Air Quality in Scotland - Air pollution detectives website. You can jump to the following sections on this page:
- Privacy Policy
- Introduction to cookies
- Cookies used on this website
- How to control and delete cookies
- Personal Information
1. Privacy Policy
This privacy policy information covers the Air Quality in Scotland - Air pollution detectives website and apps. We take privacy very seriously and only use data collected for the purpose described.
This privacy policy is subject to change as the website develops, so please check back on this page from time-to-time.
2. Introduction to cookies
In order to help provide the information on this website accessible and easy to use, small amounts of information may be placed on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
The information is used to improve the website and is collected by measuring how many people are using services so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast.
You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article Internet Browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them.
If you'd like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, visit the About Cookies website.
3. Cookies used on this website
General website
A cookie is set which records whether the cookie notification banner has already been seen.
| Name | Expires | Typical Content |
|---|---|---|
| strictly-necessary-cookies | 6 months | True or false. |
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
This website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it's meeting its users' needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
| Name | Expires | Typical Content |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| _ga_<container-id> | 2 years | Used to persist session state. |
| _gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. |
| AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
| _gac_<property-id> | 90 days | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. |
Air Pollution Detectives Quiz
The following cookies may also be used to help track your progress through the quiz:
| Name | Expires | Typical Content |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | When you close your browser, or your browser session ends | Randomly generated text allowing management of your logged in session. |
4. How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The 'Help' function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
You can manage the following cookies directly from this page:-
Strictly necessary cookies
These essential cookies do things like remember your cookies choices.
They always need to be on.
Cookies that measure website use
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website and your web performance experience while visiting so we can improve it based on user needs. We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site.
Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about:
- how you got to the site
- the pages you visit on children.scottishairquality.scot and how long you spend on each page
- what you click on while you are visiting the site
5. Personal Information
Ricardo Energy and Environment use Google Analytics to track and store IP addresses of visitors to this website to understand who uses the website and to ensure the content is relevant. For more information on how Google uses information from sites and Apps please go to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk
We will not share your personal information with any third party and it will not be used for marketing purposes.
We will not transfer your personal information outside the UK.
You have a right to be informed about this processing of your personal data as in this notice. You also have the right to request from the controller access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data. Further rights are to object to and to restrict processing of your data. You also have a right to lodge a complaint about processing of your personal data with the Information Commissioner's Office. Further information is at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/.