Cookies

Introduction

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites you visit.

They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to website managers.

We believe that the cookies across our sites are neither intrusive nor evasive and that they allow us to provide services that teachers could reasonably expect from us.

Our cookies are never used for marketing purposes.

Types of cookies on this site

Session cookies (essential site cookie) – ASP.NET_SessionId

This cookie is used to provide essential facilities on our site such as MyGTCS. This cookie is deleted when you close your web browser.

Find out more about Session ID’s

Google Analytics cookies – _utma, _utmb, _utmc,_utmz

These cookies are used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, including information about the number of visitors to the site, where they’ve come from and the pages they’ve visited.

We use this information to make improvements to the site and your experience of using it.

Read Google Analytics privacy policy

Hotjar analytic cookies

We use Hotjar to help better understand the quality of the experience users of our website have. These cookies are used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, what content they look at and how they navigate through the site.

We use this information to make improvements to the site and your experience of using it.

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List of cookies collected by Hotjar

Third-party cookies

These are set by someone other than GTC Scotland.

Some of the content on our webpage may also contain content from other sites like YouTube, which may set their own cookies. Also, if you share a link to a GTC Scotland webpage, the service you share it on (e.g. Facebook) may set a cookie on your browser.

We have no control over third-party cookies.

How to control cookies

You can control your cookie settings through the cookie preferences menu which is available on any page of the website in the footer (the icon on the right).

Most web browsers also allow some control of cookies through the browser settings.

You can set your browser to accept or reject all, or certain cookies.