Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) Website Cookies Policy
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (“DHI”) website (www.dhi-scotland.com) gathers and uses information from the website and other relevant technologies to improve and enhance your website experience. We do this through the use of cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
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
- Pay sales commissions
Cookies we use:
Below is a list of the cookies we use on this site, which is updated whenever new cookies are added and classified by our website provider (https://www.screenmedia.co.uk).
Last update: 01 October 2020
Google Analytics
These cookies enable us to store information such as the time you visit our site, whether you have visited before and the website that you visited prior to visiting our site.
We also use custom dimensions in Google Analytics: we have ‘ClientId’ set up at session level and ‘UserId’ set up at user level. These cookies allow us to track individual patterns of behaviour.
For more information about google Analytics please see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Duration: how long a google analytics cookie remains on your computer or device depends on what it is and what it is used for. some google analytics cookies expire at the end of your browser session, whilst others can remain for up to two years. you can delete google analytics cookies and other cookies at any time by clearing your cache.
Google Tag Manager
These cookies track specific actions taken by users visiting the site. Duration: 90 days
Name | Description |
_ga | Used to set apart unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. Used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for analytics reports. |
_gid | Used to store and update a unique value of each page visited, distinguishing the users. |
_gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made |
How can I control cookies via my browser?
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
Other browsers - With new devices being created all the time, including tablets and phones it is not possible to list every browser for every device. The best advice is to consult the manufactures website for further instructions regarding cookies.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
