Our Use of Cookies

When you visit a Edinburgh Bright Futures website, we will use cookies to give you the best experience on our website (and to keep it free!). Cookies are small text files stored on your device. The information collected does not usually directly identify you; oftentimes, the information is tied to a cookie ID, advertising ID, IP address, or similar online/device identifier.

The specific types of cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our Edinburgh Bright Futures sites to function or to enable our affiliate program, and cannot be switched off in our systems. They do not store any personally identifiable information.

These cookies are set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services (e.g., submitting an Edinburgh Bright Futures site URL into your browser, clicking an affiliate link to one of our marketing landing pages).

They ensure the proper technical functioning of such service (e.g., carrying out necessary transmissions over the internet, ensuring proper attribution to affiliates who have referred you, showing a website version that has a broadband-related data quantity corresponding to that of your Internet connection, changing from http to https as appropriate, etc.).

More Information on Affiliate Program Cookies: Where you have landed on one of our pages due to a link provided by our trusted affiliates, a cookie is set by our referral marketing provider as necessary for the affiliate to get credit for referring you and for you to get any bonuses or rewards that the affiliate may have offered you for following their referral link. These cookies are what are called ‘third-party’ cookies since they are set by our affiliate marketing platform.

How can I control cookies?

As your data controller, we respect your right to privacy and allow you to choose which types of cookies you would prefer to use (unless such cookies are considered “strictly necessary”). You can control cookies by using our cookie preference manager by clicking the button below. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings. Keep in mind that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of our sites and the services we are able to offer. The cookie settings that you choose will be remembered whenever you visit any of Edinburgh Bright Futures’s sites and you may change your settings at any time.

Of course, we will need to use a cookie to remember the settings that you have chosen within this cookie privacy manager. This will have a couple of consequences:

If you delete all your cookies, you will have to update your settings with us again.

If you use a different device or browser, you will have to tell us your settings again.

Alternatively, you can control cookies directly from your web browser. Most browsers allow you to control cookies as part of their settings and preferences. Please refer to your specific browser for instructions on how to disable, limit and delete cookies.