1. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES  

1.1 Our website (our “site”) is operated by Scotgrain Agriculture Limited (company number 03599528) whose registered office Station Maltings, Witham, Essex, CM8 2DU, United Kingdom (“we”, “us”, “our”).  Scotgrain Agriculture Limited is a member of the GrainCorp Group of Companies, whose ultimate parent is GrainCorp Limited (company number 057 186 035) whose registered office is Level 28, 175 Liverpool Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia (“parent”).  The site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and this helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also to improve our site.

1.2 If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do this below).

1.3 A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree.  Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. We use the following cookies:

1.3.1 Strictly necessary cookies.

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site.  They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or make purchases. We do not require your consent to place these cookies. Nevertheless, you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device/ browser, but restricting these cookies is likely to mean that our site will not work as you would expect and certain functionality may be inoperable.

1.3 2 Non-essential cookies

(a) Analytical/performance cookies.  They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it.  This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.  We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, how they reached our site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc.  This helps us to continuously improve our website. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

(b) Functionality cookies.  These are used to recognise you when you return to our site.  This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

1.4 You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

1.5 Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

1.6 You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.  However, as set out above, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.  For instance, our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded video powered by YouTube and Vimeo. Disabling all cookies may mean you cannot access the functions offered by these third parties.

2. MORE INFORMATION

2.1 More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at http://www.aboutcookies.org/

2.2 If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies policy or how we use cookies on our site, then you can contact us by email at [email protected].

3. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY

3.1    Any changes to this cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page and we will communicate any changes to you.  Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this cookies policy. We will also bring your attention to such changes by updating our cookie banner/ pop-up.

3.2   This policy was issued on 24 May 2018. (vers.1.0)

Cookie Policy for Scotgrain Agriculture

This is the Cookie Policy for Scotgrain Agriculture, accessible from www.scotgrain.co.uk

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Email newsletters related cookies

  This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

• Forms related cookies

  When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

• Site preferences cookies

  In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

  For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: [email protected]