Privacy Policy

Welcome to The Big Issue Scotland's privacy policy. We have developed this policy as part of our commitment to protecting your privacy. We want you to feel confident about the privacy and security of your personal information.

Collected information

When you contact The Big Issue Scotland we may ask for your name and e-mail address and other pieces of contact and/or personal information

Why do you need my e-mail address?

In order that we can reply to any correspondence made through our site we need a valid e-mail address

Do you store information on my browsing activity, and can I be identified from it?

We collect anonymous information on your activity while using some of the tools on the website and during general browsing

• IP address;
• browser type;
• access times;
• referring URL.

There's no way you can be identified as a result of your browsing activity on the Big Issue Scotland Website.

We only examine browsing activity to monitor aggregated site traffic and analyse it. This gives us information to help us improve the relevance of the services we offer you.

Do you share my information with anyone else?

We will never share or make available any part of your contact information with a third party except when the law requires us to do so in order to assist with the authority's enquiries. 

How we use cookies

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this website-session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

How do you use cookies and what information do you collect about me?

Session cookies

We use temporary/session cookies in the following ways:

• within Big Issue Scotland Search to store your page requests during a search session;

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies are used on the Big Issue Scotland website in the following ways:

• to track aggregated usage and the number of unique, anonymous users;
• to manage advertisement serving and to ensure the same advert is not shown too frequently;
• within polls on the site;
• to track the number of comments you may post;

If you don't want a cookie to be created on your PC, web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer provide the option to disable them. However, you might not be able to take advantage of the full functionality of our website if you do.

Sites linked to The Big Issue Scotland may also use cookies. Please check the individual privacy policies of such sites to find out more.

How to manage the use of cookies on our website

You can manage the cookies in the cookie folder of your browser. You can either delete cookies from your cookie folder once you have left our site, or you can set your preferences before you enter our website.

Deleting or rejecting cookies may impair your experience of our website. You may not be able to access some pages or complete some transactions securely.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you're also entitled to view any information we hold on you by paying a fee. Details on how to do this are available from us or from the Office of the Information Commissioner. If any information held is inaccurate, we'll make the necessary changes and contact you with confirmation.

Third party links

The Big Issue Scotland website contains links to other sites. We cannot assume responsibility for any other site's content or information handling practices. We encourage you to review each site's privacy policy before entering into transactions with them.

 

If you have any questions relating to this privacy policy or how we use the personal information we hold about you, please contact us.