Cookie and Privacy Policy

(last update 12th September 2014)

Our Cookie and Privacy Policy covers our websites as listed below. Further information is also provided for our forum as additional cookies are required for its operation.

• caithness.org (and the sub domains; arts, sport, community, whatson and forum)
• caithness-business.co.uk
• sutherland-business.co.uk

we use various cookies on our sites. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit www.aboutcookies.org for detailed information.

Below we describe the cookies we use on this site and what they are used for. Currently we operate an "implied consent" policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser's anonymous usage setting (called "Incognito" in Chrome, "InPrivate" for Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari etc.)

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by our websites directly.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. 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. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore 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.

You can find out more about Google's position on privacy as regards its analytics service at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html

vBulletin: Our Forum uses the popular vBulletin Software and cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with our forum, and whether you have logged into your forum account. We use cookies to remember your log-in for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken.

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and AddThis. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our sites. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to one of our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

• https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
• https://twitter.com/privacy
• http://www.addthis.com/privacy
• https://www.google.com/policies/privacy

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Log Files

Like many other Web sites, our sites makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.