The College of Scent Dogs. Cookie policy

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

Used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or

strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies; are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Some cookies may be used only for the duration of your visit, and others may be used to measure how you interact with services and content over time.

Cookies help to provide important features and functionality on our website and to improve your experience. Cookies can also be used to help us detect fraudulent activity or to prevent security breaches, so we may record information about your device within the cookie. The reasons we use cookies are as follows:

Improve the way our website will work best for you.

Cookies can help us to understand how our websites and mobile app are being used. For example, by telling us if you get an error message as you browse. These cookies collect data that is mostly aggregated and anonymous

We may need help to measure the effectiveness of the website, and for this we would use cookies.

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the functional cookies on our website.

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.

Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing or enhancing the website functionality you have requested.

Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:

We use Google Analytics cookies on our website. Google Analytics cookies help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address).

The information we collect using analytical cookies is collected on an anonymised basis.

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.

We currently do not use advertising cookies on our website

Where we display or mention GDPR Privacy Policy we also refer to The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019