General Privacy Policy Statement

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website.

1 The Scottish Executive fully respects your right to privacy. Any personal information which you supply to us will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in strict accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.
2 The Scottish Executive does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information that you volunteer, either by emailing us or by using the application form.
3 Any information, which you provide by way of this website, is not made available to any third parties. It is used by the Scottish Executive only in line with the purpose for which you provided it and consistent with the general policy statement given above.
4 This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary session cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Cookies can contain user identification data. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
5 Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged/collected and used by our website host. For further information and a statement of policy regarding this information, please contact Scott Brand on 0131 244 0350.

Disclaimer Third party Internet sites that you can link to through this site are not covered by our privacy policy, so we ask you to take care when you enter any personal information on line. The Scottish Executive accepts no responsibility or liability for these sites as they are managed by organisations, companies or individuals that are not under the control of the Scottish Executive. We provide links to these sites only as a convenience and the provision of this service is not an endorsement of these sites.