Salmon Fishing Proposed River Gradings for 2024 Season: Data Protection Impact Assessment

What personal information we collect

Analytics

We use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques.

The information we - and Google - collect doesn't identify anyone, and is kept for a maximum of 38 months. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through the site, we will be upfront about it.

When staff use our site

We use IP addresses to identify Scottish Government staff accessing the site from Scottish Government networks.

We record these users as 'internal' on this site. This helps us produce more accurate data about how members of the public use our content.

All visitors are anonymous. We cannot identify individuals.

Cookies

You can read more about how we use cookies, and how to change your cookies preferences, on our Cookies page.

Additionally, we use Plausible Analytics on this site to collect some anonymous usage data for statistical purposes. This is to track overall trends in our website traffic, not to track individual visitors. All the data is in aggregate only. No personal data is collected to Plausible. Data collected includes referral sources, top pages, visit duration, information from the devices (device type, operating system, country and browser) used during the visit. Read more in the Plausible Analytics data policy.

Subscribing to our e-newsletter

We collect your email address and subscription preferences when you sign up to our e-newsletter. You can also provide your name but this is optional. We track how our emails are used - for example whether you open them and which links you click on. The lawful basis we rely on to process personal data when you subscribe to our newsletter is consent. This means you have the right to withdraw your consent, or to object to the processing of your personal data for this purpose at any time. You can unsubscribe from receiving the newsletter at any time by selecting the 'unsubscribe' link that appears in every email. Once you have unsubscribed, your details will be deleted immediately from the system.

Feedback

If you contact us asking a question or giving feedback, we collect your email address and any other personal data contained in your message. If you contact us asking for information, we may need to contact other government bodies to find that information.

Consultations

We collect names and email addresses with every response we receive through our consultation platform.

Email addresses are used to send an acknowledgement of response following submission. They may also be used to contact you in the future in relation to the consultation exercise if you give consent to be contacted.

Where permission is given, we publish responses. We include personal data where permission has been given to do so. We never publish email or postal addresses.

Sometimes you may be accessing or linking to topic specific pages from our website – in such cases please refer to the privacy notice for that site.

Blogs and discussion sites

We collect names or usernames, and email addresses with each comment. This data is kept as long as the blog post or dialogue remains published.

Who we share your information with

We use Mailchimp to process our email newsletter subscriptions. Mailchimp’s privacy notice outlines how they collect, use, share and process personal information.

Links to other websites

When we link to other websites, we encourage you to read the privacy policy statements contained on those sites.

Data protection policy document

See Information assurance and data protection: data protection policy.