Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is committed to ensuring that we are compliant with our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and that whenever we process personal data, we do so in a transparent, fair and lawful manner.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller and our registration number is Z9715836. You can contact our Data Protection Officer by writing to The DPO, Citizens Advice Scotland, Spectrum House, Powderhall Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4GB.
Privacy Notice
Our Privacy Notice is downloadable at the bottom of this page. This Privacy Notice sets out, in line with GDPR, how we collect and use your personal data during and after you contact us or access our services. It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using your data.
Subject Access Requests
The General Data Protection Regulation gives individuals (data subjects) a number of rights, including the right to access personal data that an organisation holds about them. The process for requesting this data is known as a "Subject Access Request". You have the right to apply to CAS to access, modify, port or delete the personal information we hold about you. If you wish to make a Subject Access Request to CAS, please complete and return the Subject Access Request Form which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page - it also contains Guidance to assist you.
Right to Complain
If you think that Citizens Advice Scotland is handling your personal data inappropriately or is not meeting its legal requirements in respect of data protection laws, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Please visit the Information Commissioner’s website for more information (https://ico.org.uk/).
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We don't use cookies to personally identify you; our aim in using them is to be able to make the site better for you.
More information about our use of cookies is available in our Privacy Notice. The table below explains the cookies we use and what each is for.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | An overview of privacy at Google |
| Site cookie acceptance | cookies-allowed | This cookie is used to record that a user has accepted the use of cookies on this website (which is assumed by continued use of the site. It expires after one year. | |
| Drupal has_js | has_js | Used by Drupal, the content management system which powers this website |
Changing your browser settings for cookies
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