Cookies
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?Stirling Local History Society, the organisation behind stirling-lhs.org, does not identify users of this site. The site does use cookies, though.
Types of cookies we use
Functional
These cookies are used to ensure you can correctly navigate our website.
Performance
These cookies are used to analyse trends, administer the website, track visitor movements and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our websites. These cookies are not linked to personally identifiable information. That is because we use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service which uses cookies to help us to count the number of people that visit stirling-lhs.org and to analyse how they use it (e.g. we can determine which pages on our site are the most popular ones).
The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Targeting
The social media sharing functionality on certain web pages is provided by the third party Twitter. As you navigate these pages or if you use the sharing buttons, Twitter will automatically set cookies. We have no control over the cookies that Twitter uses. There is more information on Twitter cookies at https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?Stirling Local History Society, the organisation behind stirling-lhs.org, does not identify users of this site. The site does use cookies, though.
Types of cookies we use
Functional
These cookies are used to ensure you can correctly navigate our website.
Performance
These cookies are used to analyse trends, administer the website, track visitor movements and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our websites. These cookies are not linked to personally identifiable information. That is because we use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service which uses cookies to help us to count the number of people that visit stirling-lhs.org and to analyse how they use it (e.g. we can determine which pages on our site are the most popular ones).
The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Targeting
The social media sharing functionality on certain web pages is provided by the third party Twitter. As you navigate these pages or if you use the sharing buttons, Twitter will automatically set cookies. We have no control over the cookies that Twitter uses. There is more information on Twitter cookies at https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.