COOKIES AND HOW THEY BENEFIT YOU:
The websites of “Scottish Documentary Institute”, “SDI Outreach”, “SDI Productions Ltd”, “SDI” use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are tiny text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information without your express permission
- Collect any sensitive information without your express permission
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below. You can also read our full Privacy Policy.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your settings
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
- Tailoring content to your needs
We use the NationBuilder platform to organize our community. The owners of NationBuilder have certified that their systems comply with EU/US Safe Harbour principles – required to ensure full compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Our user data is entirely owned by us – SDI – and not by NationBuilder.
NationBuilder – Privacy Policy
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Other third-party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes other functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded video. Our site frequently includes the following which use cookies:
Distrify – Privacy Policy
Vimeo – Privacy Policy
Selz – Privacy Policy
Social media cookies
So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
Facebook – Privacy Policy
Twitter – Privacy Policy
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous visitor statistics
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called ‘analytics’ programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use:
Google Analytics – Privacy Policy
Chartbeat – Privacy Policy
Turning cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. (Learn how here.) Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our website and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called ‘spyware’. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
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