Privacy policy

How we use your personal information

Scriptoria is focussed on protecting your personal data and privacy. This policy outlines: (i) what personal data we collect; (ii) how we store and use your personal data; and (iii) how long we hold your personal data. This policy also explains how the Scriptoria website uses cookies.

What personal data we collect

All personal data collected by Scriptoria is freely given to us by you when subscribing to any of our three mailing lists: Consulting and Strategy, Publications and Training. This data might include your name, the organisation you represent and your email address.

How we store and use your personal data

Any personal data that is freely given to us by you is stored in a secure, password-protected database. We use this data to contact you with information about the service(s) Scriptoria provides, as per the preferences you indicated when you subscribed to our mailing list(s). Your personal data will not be shared with any third parties.

How long we hold your personal data

Scriptoria will hold the data freely provided by you indefinitely, unless you decide to unsubscribe from our mailing list(s) at any time.

Cookie policy

What are cookies?

No cookies used on the Scriptoria website collect personal data. Any information gathered by these cookies is stored on the Google server for 14 months, the minimum retention policy permitted by Google. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser. Cookies also contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive if you allow this. The Scriptoria website uses cookies as part of Google Analytics to allow us to measure information about how visitors use our site. This includes identifying each unique site visitor and the details of each page visited.

Types of cookies used

The Scriptoria website uses three Google Analytics analytical/performance cookies. These are listed below:

• The _gat cookie is used to limit the collection of analytics data on sites with a high volume of traffic; it expires after ten minutes
• The _ga cookie is used to monitor and identify areas of the website that can be improved, and to distinguish users by generating two random 32-bit numbers for them; it expires after two years
• The _gid cookie is used to distinguish users on a website to generate statistical information about their use of our website; it expires after one day.

The Scriptoria website also uses catAccCookies, a cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that a user accepts the use of cookies on this website; this expires after seven days.

For more information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

If you wish to disable Google Analytics on your browser please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For any further information on Scriptoria’s privacy policy, please contact enquiries@scriptoria.co.uk.