Two of Scotlands greatest gifts to the world - Golf and Malt Whisky

Privacy statement

The Scotch Embassy is committed to upholding the privacy of its website users. This privacy statement explains how we use your personal information.

The shop part of our website uses one cookie, which is a text file that identifies your purchases. It enables us to provide you with the shopping basket. The cookie only holds the information necessary to operate the shop, and expires within 30 minutes. We do not use the cookie for any other purpose and have no means of accessing it ourselves.

You have the ability to set you computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is offered (and subsequently accept or reject it), or to block all cookies. Notification will allow you to see what is being stored and when it will expire. Blocking cookies will mean that you are unable to use the shop.

The Scotch Embassy compiles logs of all visits to the website, using the standard server facilities. They provide us with usage data, including the source address of page requests (your IP address or domain name), the date and time of page requests, any referring websites, and other parameters such as your search criteria. We use this data to better understand the use of the website and to seek future improvements.

We may also collect personal information about you through any forms that you may complete, or through emails you may send us. We use this data to answer your enquiries and to provide you with requested products. We will not share this information with any third parties without your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted to do so by law. We will ensure that all personal information is held in accordance with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.