Privacy policy

This website is operated by Creative Carbon Scotland who are located at Thorn House 5 Rose Street Edinburgh EH2 2PR and can be contacted on +44 (0)131 243 2760 or via [email protected]. This privacy policy explains our data processing practices with regard to this website.

Information collected
We collect personal information from  about you and your organisation through the use of request forms and other data input measures on the site. Please note that the information given by you will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 for the purposes of processing your request, providing you with information about services we offer as Creative Carbon Scotland, and for auditing usage of the site. Your details will also be entered into our database for general administration purposes. We will respect your instructions not to send you additional information if this has been indicated. This does not infringe on your statutory rights. If Creative Carbon Scotland wishes to publish or share non-anonymised information inputted by you, Creative Carbon Scotland will seek your express and direct permission independent of these terms of use.

To help us to address the needs of our users, we may keep track of how you use the information which we send to you or which is available on our website. We keep a record of which links are accessed by users on our website to enable us to find out which kinds of information are of most interest to those users. We use this information to provide a service which is tailored to the needs of users of our website and those who have chosen to receive information from us. This information is held on an anonymous basis and you will not be personally identifiable from this information. This information is stored on our privately owned and maintained servers.

Updating information
You have the right to apply for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may make a small charge to cover the cost of administration) and to have any inaccuracies corrected.

Disclosures
The information you provide to us will only be used for internal purposes.  We will not distribute, disclose or trade your data with any other party unless you have opted in to do so or we have sought express permission from you to share your data.

Third parties data disclosure
We do not disclose data to third parties except in the cases noted above.

Security
We do not use a secure transmission method for you to send us your personal data. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

1) Unauthorised access
2) Improper use or disclosure
3) Unauthorised modification

All our employees and data processors who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our customer’s personal data.

Privacy support
If you have any comments on our privacy policy, please email [email protected].

Site Terms of Use:

By using our site, you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must refrain from using our website.

Accessing our site

  • Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
  • From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
  • If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
  • You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.
  • You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

Community guidelines

Our aim is to ensure this website is inclusive and safe to use. We reserve the right to review any submitted material and delete any content which we, at our sole discretion, deem to be inappropriate.

Inappropriate content without limitation includes racism, homophobia, libellous commentary, blasphemous, defamatory, or in any other way unlawful or offensive.

We will remove any posts that are spam or commercial in nature.

We request that any and all contributions and discussions hosted on Creative Carbon Scotland are productive in nature.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may:

– View and display the contents of our site using your internet browser, download extracts of the content of our site (provided it is not for commercial use) or print off single pages of material for your own personal use.

– You must ensure that any printed materials include an acknowledgement of our intellectual property rights in that content.

– You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

– Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged on any materials that are used in any other context. The wording for this is as follows: “Information provided by Creative Carbon Scotland. Registered Charity Number SC042687”

– You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately. Furthermore you must return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

The names and logos identifying our site and/or us and our products and services and the products and services of any third parties are either (a) proprietary marks of Creative Carbon Scotland or (b) marks that Creative Carbon Scotland is licensed to use, and nothing in these Terms of Use shall confer on you any licence or ownership of such marks or of any other intellectual property right.

Reliance on information

Commentary and other materials posted or featured on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Site change management

We aim to update our site regularly to ensure that we are delivering the best service possible to our consumers. This means that site functionality and content may change at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Limiting liability

To the extent permitted by law, Creative Carbon Scotland shall not be liable or responsible to any person for any loss, cost, expenses or damage which may arise from the use of any of the information contained in this website. We also exclude liability for any consequential or indirect loss which may be caused to you by us.

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

(a) all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity;

(b) any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

  • loss of income or revenue
  • loss of business
  • loss of profits or contracts
  • loss of anticipated savings
  • loss of data
  • loss of goodwill
  • wasted management or office time
  • any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information processing

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing of your data, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

User generated content

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose, including commercial purposes. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with our view of acceptable use of the website or our stated community guidelines.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Links

Creative Carbon Scotland is not responsible for the contents of any off-site pages or links referenced. The presence of a hyper-link from a page does not imply any kind of endorsement of the content of these pages or links by Creative Carbon Scotland.

Third party measurement tools are used within the site, and it should be noted that by using these tools you are committed to the terms and conditions governing the use of these tools.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that does not damage our reputation and you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form endorsement or awareness on our part where none exists.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected].

Requests will be considered on a case by case basis.

Links from our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The Scottish courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland.

Termination

We reserve the right to refuse access to our site to any user at our sole discretion.

Severance

If any provision of the Terms of Use is judged to be illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the provisions of the Terms shall continue in full force and effect.

Variations to Terms of Service

It is up to you to revisit this page regularly, as we reserve the right to change the terms noted on this page at any time. We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to be aware of any changes. Please note that these terms and conditions are legally binding.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact [email protected].

Acceptance of terms 

If you do not accept these terms and conditions in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of the website and therefore should cease using the website immediately.

About cookies:

What are cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data sent to your computer or mobile phone from a website. This means the website can recognise your device (your computer or mobile phone) if you return to the same site.

A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is a randomly generated number. This is stored on your device’s hard drive (cache). Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using a website.

Cookies are not programs and do not collect information from your device.

Cookies make your experience of using websites faster and easier. They allow websites to create a customised view of pages to which you navigate. For example, they are commonly used to authenticate or identify registered users of a website without requiring them to sign in each time they access it. Other uses include maintaining a pre-selected list of data inputs a user has selected, site personalisation (presenting different pages to different users) and tracking the pages a user has visited on a site for analysis purposes.

Cookies may come with or without an expiry date. Cookies without an expiry date exist until the browser is closed, while cookies with an expiry date may be stored by the device until the expiry date passes.

You can restrict or block cookies set by the CCS website but this may limit your use of some functionality.

Creative Carbon Scotland uses third-party suppliers who also set cookies on our behalf to deliver the services that they are providing or to record usage.

The Creative Carbon Scotland website’s use of cookies is governed by our Privacy Policy.

How to manage your cookies
Cookies are sent to your browser (whether you use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or any other browser) by a website and then stored in the cookies directory of your device.

To check and update your cookies settings, you will need to know what browser you are using and what version of it you have. You can usually find this out by opening the browser (just as if you were going to use the internet) and then clicking on ‘Help’ and then ‘About’. This will give you information about the browser version you are using.

To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers, go to www.aboutcookies.org and select the browser and version you are using. You’ll also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer. For the majority of browsers this can be done through your preferences control panel.

If you use a mobile phone to browse this website or other sites that use cookies, please refer to your handset manual for guidance.

Cookie types:
When visiting the Creative Carbon Scotland website you may have the following types of cookies set on your browser:

Session cookie
This cookie lasts for the duration of your visit. It is destroyed when you close the browser or navigate away from the site you are browsing.

Session tracking cookie
These cookies are set on your first visit to the CCS website. They last longer than the duration of your stay and are used to help us understand which parts of our sites are regularly visited and how we can improve the service we deliver.

Visit tracking cookie
These cookies are used by CCS to track repeat visitors to our sites. We do this so we can build up a picture of how visitors use our sites and how best to improve our service.

About Creative Carbon Scotland

We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

[email protected]

+44 (0)131 243 2760

Supported by

Creative Scotland logo City of Edinburgh Council logo

A project initiated by Edinburgh’s Festivals with key partners the Federation of Scottish Theatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network

Edinburgh Festival City logo Federation of Scottish Theatre logo Scottish Contemporary Art Network logo

Accreditations

Scottish Living Wage Accreditation