Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to the Clackmannanshire.Scot website/domain:
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how cookies are used on the site, how third-parties may use cookies on the site, and which are your choices regarding cookies. Please read this Cookie Policy in conjunction with the Privacy Policy, which sets out additional details on how your personal data is stored and processed and your various rights.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves via the browser on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
Why use cookies?
Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login details, local language and/or other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Additionally, it allows the site or a third-party to recognize you, while making your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Using cookies allows the site to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience.
Categories of cookies that the Clackmannanshire.Scot website uses
When you use and access the site, a cookie bar will appear that will inform you about the use of cookies in our websites and you would be able to accept or reject the use of cookies.
Essential cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of the site in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas, authenticating users and preventing fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the site may not be fully functional. The following strictly necessary cookies are used on the site:
Cookie name
{random alphanumeric name}: First party cookie (site generated)
Purpose: Initialises the user session on the website and provide the content
Expiration: Expires at the end of the session: This is the Session Cookie referring to a specific session per time. Its usage is mandatory for the connection between the client and the server.
Cookie name
PHPSESSID: First party cookie (site generated)
Purpose: Initialises the user session on the website and provide the content
Expiration: Expires at the end of the session: This is the Session Cookie referring to a specific session per time. Its usage is mandatory for the connection between the client and the server.
Cookie name
reDimCookieHint: First party cookie (site generated)
Purpose: Notes your preference for the use of non-essential cookies on the website (GDPR Directive requirement).
Expiration: Stores your cookie preference information on this site for 365 days.
Non-essential cookies: Performance Cookies
Performance cookies help Clackmannanshire.Scot improve the way the site works.
Performance cookies
Currently no performance cookies are used.
Non-essential cookies: Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This allows us to personalise the content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies may be employed at a later date, e.g., for user login.
Currently, no functionality cookies are used.
Advertising/Targeting cookies
Advertising/Targeting cookies limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of digital advertising campaigns. They are also used to deliver more relevant adverts according to your interests. They allow you to limit the number of times an ad is displayed to you and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They are also used to remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often advertising or targeting cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation. In any case, the third-party ads providers have been evaluated and act under the requirements of the GDPR.
Advertising/Targeting cookies
Currently no Advertising or Targeting cookies are used.
What are your choices regarding cookies
Clackmannanshire.Scot does not require that you accept non-essential cookies. If you do accept the use of non-essential cookies (should we use them in future), you can withdraw your consent or adjust your browser’s privacy settings at any time. Please note that blocking of essential cookies may cause some of the sites’ functionality to not be available.
Using your browser
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help centre of your web browser. Please note that if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services or/and some functionalities may not work.
Each browser provides help pages that assist with managing cookies within their products. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser.
Questions
If you have further questions regarding cookies on the site, please send an email to
This page last updated on 02/02/24