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Copyright

Community Food and Health (Scotland) allows copying and reproduction of any material from its publications for personal or non-commercial purposes, except material that is quoted in our publications and is therefore attributable to an external organisation or individual. All other uses, including for academic purposes, requires the prior written permission of Community Food and Health (Scotland) which will not be unreasonably withheld.

Community Food and Health (Scotland) must be acknowledged as the owner of intellectual property and copyright in the material, and the publication date must be given in case of policy detail which may be affected by the date of writing.

Freedom of information – withheld information and appeal procedures

Our policy is to be as open as possible and supply the information you have requested, but we may withhold information if we consider it is commercially sensitive or if it relates to individuals.

If we refuse to supply all or part of any other information you have asked for we will write to you giving our reasons for refusal.

If you are not satisfied with the reasons you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner. You may also appeal if you believe the changes we have made to supply information are unfair or that we have not complied with our obligations under that requirement.

Disclaimer

This site and all the material contained within it is provided ‘as is’ without any endorsement or warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, as to its satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, security or accuracy.

We do not warrant that the functions contained within this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected for that the site or the server that makes it available will be free of viruses.

In no event will be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, arising from the use of this site.

Although we monitor the discussion area on a regular basis, we assume no responsibility or liability arising from any error, inaccuracy, omission, infringement, defamation or obscenity in the content posted within the discussion area.

Cookies

To ensure that our website is as useful as possible we sometimes need to use cookies to help us gather information about how our website visitors use this site.

What are cookies?

A cookie (web cookie, or browser cookie) is a small file which is stored on your computer when you visit a website. These files are used by the website for a number of things but mainly to track or trace where you have been on the website and what you are searching for. In some cases cookies also assist in any interaction between you and the website, for example when using social media such as facebook and twitter.

For a more details read more about cookies on Wikipedia.

How does Community Food and Health Scotland use cookies?

This website sets cookies for the purposes listed below. If you use the website, we assume that you consent to them being set. You can set your browser not to accept cookies from this site, but some of the site’s features will not work without them.

Logged-in users

If you log in to edit the content of this website, cookies will be set to remember your logged-in status. This will prevent you from accidentally logging out when you move around the site or temporarily leave the site. Cookies set at log-in also remember your preferences for the user interface, allowing you to customise the setup.

Note, these cookies are not set for visitors who do not log in.

Commenting

Cookies are set if visitors comment on articles. This is for convenience, to save them from having to re-type their details if they want to leave another comment. These are set to expire in one year.

List of specific cookies used on the site:

Cookie Name Cookie Category Description Duration
wordpress_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user. session
wordpress_logged_in_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user session
wordpress_test_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user session
wordpress_test_cookie 2 WordPress test cookie session
wp-settings- 1 WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies.
The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table.
This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
1 year
wp-settings-time- 2 WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. 1 year
PHPSESSID 1 To identify your unique session on the website session
SESS 1 To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. session