Cookie Policy

Page Title: Cookie Policy
Last Updated: February 2026

1. What is a Cookie?

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.

At Edderton Scott, we use cookies to ensure the operational efficiency of our website, analyze our traffic, and personalize content.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication: To identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
Status: To help us determine if you are logged into our website.
Security: To protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally.
Analysis: To help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services.
Cookie Consent: To store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services specifically requested by you (such as paying for a service) cannot be provided.

Examples: Session cookies, security tokens, Stripe payment integration cookies.

B. Performance & Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, e.g., which pages you visit most often, and if you receive error messages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.

Service Provider: Google Analytics (GA4).
Data Collected: IP Address (anonymized), Time on page, bounce rate, referral source.

C. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

Service Provider: Video players (e.g., Vimeo, YouTube) ensuring playback settings are remembered.

D. Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission.

Service Provider: LinkedIn Insights Tag, Meta Pixel (if applicable).

4. Your Consent

When you arrive at eddertonscott.com for the first time, a cookie banner will appear asking for your consent to set non-essential cookies (Analytics and Targeting).

Strictly Necessary Cookies do not require consent and are set automatically.
Analytics/Targeting Cookies are only set if you click “Accept” or “Allow All.”

You can withdraw your consent at any time by clearing your browser cache or adjusting the settings as described below.

5. Managing Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. 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.

To manage cookies in your browser, please visit the help pages of your specific browser:

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. Contact Us

This website is owned and operated by Edderton Scott. If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us by email at hello@eddertonscott.com.