Cookies Policy

Please read this policy carefully because it contains important information on how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal data generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal data and details of how to contact us and the Information Commissioner’s Office, if you have a complaint.

This website is operated by the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry. This policy only relates to your use of our website at www.shekubayohinquiry.scot. Throughout our website, we may link to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites may also use cookies or other similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these third party websites, please consult their policies on their websites.

Cookies (and similar technologies such as local storage) are small text files or data stored on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Some of this information will be aggregated or statistical, which means you will not be identified individually.

Cookies used on our website

Our website uses the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary cookies: These enable core functionality of our website, such as security, network management and accessibility. We do not rely on your consent to place these cookies on your device.

Low risk analytical cookies: We currently seek consent for analytics. We may in future use "low risk analytical" cookies only where configured to be low risk in line with regulator's guidance. We will not rely on your consent to place these cookies on your device where they are low risk.

Optional cookies: These help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. We rely on your consent to place these cookies on your device , subject to certain low risk analytical cookies we may use. For these cookies, you can withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie control box at the bottom of every page on our website. You may need to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.

There is more information about the cookies we use and why below:

Cookie: Cookies Preference
Name: cookies preference storage item
Purpose: We use browser local storage to remember a user's choice about cookies on our website. If you have previously indicated a preference, that will be stored in this item.
Strictly Necessary Cookie: Yes
Expiry: end of session, or until the stored preference is cleared or updated

Cookie: Google Analytics
Name: "_ga", "ga*"
Purpose: Used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use Google Analytics cookies (_ga, ga*) to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
Strictly Necessary Cookie: No
Expiry: _ga usually expires after two years. Expiry periods for ga cookies may vary depending on configuration.*

Cookie: Google reCAPTCHA
Name: "_GRECAPTCHA"
Purpose: This cookie is used by Google reCAPTCHA to distinguish between human users and automated bots. This helps protect the website from spam and abuse.
Strictly Necessary Cookie: Yes
Expiry: up to six months, depending on Google’s configuration

Cookie: Google and YouTube embedded content
Name: "PISID", "__Secure-1PSID", "__Secure-1PSIDCC", "__Secure-1PSIDTS", "__Secure-3PAPISID", "__Secure-3PSID", "__Secure-3PSIDCC", "__Secure-3PSIDTS", "__Secure-BUCKET", "__Secure-ENID", "__Secure-STRP", "__Secure-YEC", "AEC", "APISID", "DV", "HSID", "NID", "OTZ", "SAPISID", "SEARCH_SAMESITE", "SID", "SIDCC", "SOCS", "SSID"
Purpose: Used to allow the viewing of embedded media such as YouTube, and to support related Google services used on our website. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.
Strictly Necessary Cookie: No, except where required to provide security or deliver content requested by the user
Expiry: varies depending on Google’s configuration

Cookie: Google service / analytics cookie
Name: "__utmz"
Purpose: Used by Google services to collect information about how users reached or interacted with the relevant service.
Strictly Necessary Cookie: No
Expiry: up to six months, depending on Google’s configuration

The above cookies will only be accessed by us and the named third parties for the above purposes and will not be accessed by any other third party.

How to refuse cookies

You may be able to change your Internet browser settings so that cookies (including necessary cookies) are not accepted. If you do this, you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

You can reject non-necessary cookies using our opt-out option when visiting our site, this allows you to enable or disable all or some of the non-necessary cookies.

You can find out how to manage cookies on popular Internet browsers by clicking on the following links:

Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, please visit the Internet browser developer’s website.

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

If you have any questions about this policy or how we hold or use your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO), Thorntons Law, by email at dataprotectionshekubayoh@thorntons-law.co.uk.

If you would like to receive this policy in alternative format, for example, audio, large print or braille, please contact us.

Updates to this policy

We may update this policy at any time, and you should check our website occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access our website.

Last updated: July 2026