Highlands and Islands Enterprise is committed to protecting the privacy of those using our internet sites and the confidentiality of the personal information with which our clients provide us.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and complies with the act in all our dealings with your personal data.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise will never sell personal information or share personal information with third parties unrelated to it. In HIE, we use the information we collect to serve our clients in the following ways:
Message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. This cookie's main objective is to help identify users and gather simple statistical information about how the websites are used. This helps us improve and develop our sites according to user needs and preferences.
HIE is constantly reviewing its services to customers and its related business processes. HIE's data protection policies may evolve in parallel with this.
For further information about the Highlands and Island Enterprise data protection and privacy policies, contact:
The Data Protection Manager
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Cowan House
Inverness Retail and Business Park
Inverness IV2 7GF
T: 01463 244211
E: Data protection manager
Further, more detailed information about the Data Protection Act 1998 is available on the Information Commissioner's Office website at www.ico.gov.uk