How we use cookies - Film Edinburgh

We want to make services we deliver on the internet easy, and our content richer and relevant. This sometimes involves placing cookies on your computer or mobile device.

Cookies are simple pieces of data stored on your hard drive. They are safe as they cannot be used to spread viruses. Cookies we use cannot be used to identify you personally as no personal information such as telephone numbers or email addresses is in these cookies.

Cookies used on our website

Operation cookies

These cookies are necessary for our site to operate and do not contain personal data. We consider these cookies necessary to provide a service to the user.

JSESSIONID stores the session id of a user. This lets us connect the requests that your browser together, and lets us remember what you have added to My Production Guide or My Locations. This information is stored on the server and the only thing in the cookie is an randomly generated id. This cookie will be automatically expired when you close your browser.
cookiesApproved stores whether we have shown you the cookie warning banner that appears at the top of the site when you first visit the site. This cookie only contains the value "true". It expires after 1 year so you are only shown the banner once. If you do delete it then you will be shown the banner again the next time that you load a page from the website.

Usage and analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics to collect statistical data about our visitors. We collect this information in a way that does not identify you and the data is not shared with anybody else.

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Information on how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites and Google's use of cookies can be found on Google Analytics Opt-out and Google privacy pages.

Embedded content and social media cookies

The Film Edinburgh website may contain a embedded content and social media third-party cookies.

Cookies placed on your computer or mobile device from a third party are not related to filmedinburgh.org. The Film Office does not control how a third party uses their cookies. Please check third party websites' privacy policies.

Our site has a number of pages with embedded videos or other content that utilise cookies from a third party to enable this.

youtube
vimeo
videopress.com
embeds.distrify.com
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Deleting cookies

You can delete cookies from your device and change cookies setting in your browser How to delete cookies. Please note that if you reject cookies from filmedinburgh.org then the site may not function as intended.