Privacy & Cookies

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at hallsauctioneers@hotmail.co.uk
  • We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. If we have received your permission to do so, we may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting.  Again, you may change your mind at any time about this by writing to or emailing us at hallsauctioneers@hotmail.co.uk You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Hall’s, Ladhope Vale, Galashiels TD1 1BT
  • If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

Cookies

This website uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your access device to help the website provide a better user experience. We use standard WordPress and Google Analytics cookies only to collect anonymised aggregate information.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. Some cookie types are listed below.

Set by Google Maps

These are used by Google applications like Maps and Translate to track the user session and unique preferences.

  • SS Expiry 10 years
  • SID Expiry 10 years
  • NID Expiry 6 months
  • HSID Expiry 10 years
  • APISID Expiry 10 years
  • SAPISID Expiry 10 years
  • SSID Expiry 10 years
  • PREF Expiry 2 years

Set by Google Analytics

  • __utma Used to identify unique visitors to the site. Contains a unique but anonymised ID. Expiry 2 years.
  • __utmb Used to track a user’s session. With each new page visited the expiration is set for 30 minutes.
  • __utmc Used in conjunction with __utmb to track a visitor session. Expires when you exit the browser.
  • __utmz Used to determine how the user arrived at the site. Updated with each new page visited. Expiry 6 months.
  • __utmv Sometimes used as part of custom reporting segments. Expires when you exit the browser.
  •  __utmx Sometimes used as part of multivariate reporting. Expires when you exit the browser.

Note that there are many other cookie names used by Google which may come into play at any time. Third party cookies in general can change at any time.

Managing cookies

Most Internet browsers allow users to control the acceptance of cookies. Visit allaboutcookies.org to find out how to configure these settings in most major browsers.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.