Cookie Policy for Site Visitors
How Pròiseact nan Ealan uses cookies when you browse our site, and the choices you have over them.
Last updated: 14 February 2025
This page explains what cookies are, which ones we set, and how you can keep them under your control. We have kept the language plain on purpose. If anything here is unclear, the Contact Us page will reach us directly.
About Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. The next time you visit, the browser hands that file back, and the site recognises you — your language choice, whether you are signed in, which pages you looked at last. Without them, the web would forget you between every click.
Cookies fall into two broad lifetimes. Session cookies live only while your browser window is open; close the tab and they vanish. Persistent cookies stay on your device for a set period, sometimes minutes, sometimes months, until they expire or you clear them yourself.
Neither type can run programs or read other files on your computer. They simply hold short notes that a site has written for its own use.
Cookies We Use
We group the cookies on this site into three categories. The first is in active use today. The others describe what we may introduce, and we will update this page before they go live.
Essential
These keep the site working. They remember your cookie consent choice, hold a session together as you move between pages, and protect forms from misuse. You cannot switch these off and still use the site as intended.
Analytics
Analytics cookies tell us how visitors find and move through the site — which pages on Gaelic heritage hold attention, where people leave, how quickly pages load. The data is aggregated and helps us improve what we publish.
Advertising
We do not run advertising cookies at present. Should we offer personalised content or sponsored arts programming in future, these cookies would tailor what you see. We will ask for consent first.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are set by services we rely on rather than by us directly. Today that list is short. As the site grows, it may lengthen, and we will name the providers here when it does.
- Content delivery network. To serve images, fonts, and scripts quickly across Scotland and beyond, we use a CDN. It may set cookies that route your request to the nearest server and guard against malicious traffic.
- Analytics providers. When analytics goes fully live, a measurement provider would place cookies on our behalf to gather the usage data described above.
- Advertising networks. If advertising is ever introduced, networks involved in that delivery would set their own cookies, subject to your consent.
Third-party cookies are governed by the privacy practices of those companies as well as our own. Our Privacy Policy sets out how we handle the information we collect.
Controlling Cookies
You are in charge of what stays on your device. Every modern browser lets you view stored cookies, delete them, and block new ones — usually under a Privacy or Security menu. You can refuse all cookies, accept only first-party ones, or clear everything when you close the browser.
Worth knowing: blocking essential cookies will break parts of the site. Your consent choice may not be remembered, and features that depend on a session — forms, saved preferences, may stop behaving as expected. Disabling analytics cookies has no effect on what you can do here; it simply removes you from our usage counts.
If you share a device, clearing cookies is also a tidy way to reset the site's memory of your visit.
Policy Changes
This policy will change as our use of cookies changes — most likely when analytics or advertising features move from planned to live. The revision date at the top of this page is the simplest way to check whether anything has shifted since your last visit.
When a change is significant, we will flag it through the cookie banner so the update is hard to miss rather than buried. For questions about a specific cookie or this policy as a whole, the Contact Us page is the place to write. Our broader handling of data is covered in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.