Privacy policy

You may enter your personal details on this site at the appropriate points for various purposes as you see fit. By doing this, the Scottish Government is able to provide you with any information or services, which you have asked for. If you provide such information it shall be used by the Scottish Government in accordance with current legislation on the use of data.

To help determine what is popular on this website, and to assist with the relevance of future content and development, we measure elements of its usage, including the number of visitors, how frequently pages are viewed, what pages are viewed, etc.

The statistics derived from this website are recorded via standard server log files. Standard server logs will record IP address, file requests, browser type, operating system and user name (if logged in to a secure area). It should be noted that secure log-ins will be used to identify a user personally.

Freedom of Information

The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 introduced important new rights to access information held by public authorities and requires more proactive publication of information.

Please refer to the Scottish Government website to find out more about the information published by the Scottish Government.