Last updated: October 2025

Scott Advisory Ltd. recognises the importance of providing a website that is accessible to all user groups including people with disabilities such as blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these.

Scott Advisory Ltd. has designed this site with accessibility in mind, following the guidelines laid down by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, (WAI). This includes:

• Designing the pages to be viewed on a wide range of screen resolutions
• Enabling users to vary the text size using their browser’s resize option
• Using text and background colour combinations with sufficient contrast
• Having a site map available to provide information on the website layout

If you have any difficulty in accessing any information on this site or if you have any feedback in respect of this site, please contact us on admin@scottadvisory.uk

Last updated: October 2025

What’s in these terms?

This acceptable use policy sets out the standards that apply when you use, link to, or interact with our site in any other way.

Who we are and how to contact us

www.scottadvisory.uk/ is a site operated by Scott Advisory Ltd., (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 16691610 and have our registered office at 2nd Floor 11a Institute Street, Bolton, BL1 1PZ.  To contact us email admin@scottadvisory.uk.

By using our site you accept these terms:

• By using our site, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and that you agree to comply with them.
• If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
• We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

Our terms of website use also apply to your use of our site.

We may make changes to the terms of this policy

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

Prohibited uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful, fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• To harm or attempt to harm minors in any way.
• To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation, (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our site;
  • any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
  • any software used in the provision of our site; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Breach of this policy

When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the [terms of use] upon which you are permitted to use our site and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis, (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

• If you are a consumer, please note that the terms of this policy, its subject matter and its formation are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
• If you are a business, the terms of this policy, its subject matter and its formation, (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Last updated: October 2025

What’s in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website www.scottadvisory.uk, (our site).

Who we are and how to contact us

www.scottadvisory.uk is a site operated by Scott Advisory Ltd., (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 16691610 and have our registered office at 2nd Floor 11a Institute Street, Bolton, BL1 1PZ.  To contact us, please email admin@scottadvisory.uk.

By using our site, you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. Please see the end of these terms for details of when they were last updated.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our business, our users’ needs and our business priorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions and that they comply with them.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy and may download extracts of any page(s) from our site for your personal use only.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status, (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action because of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort, (including negligence) breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
• Use of, or inability to use, our site; or
• Use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

We will not be liable for:

• Loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• Business interruption;
• Loss of anticipated savings;
• Loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• Any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us using the contact details set out above.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Trade marks

Certain logos and marks used on our site are trade marks that belong to us, including but not limited to the following:

Last updated: October 2025

Table of contents

1. What does Scott Advisory do?
2. Personal data we collect and process
3. How we use your personal data, (our purposes) and our legal basis for processing it
4. Who we share your personal data with
5. Cookies and similar tracking technology
6. How we keep your personal data secure
7. International data transfers
8. Data retention
9. Your data protection rights
10. Updates to this Privacy Notice
11. How to contact us

We recommend that you read this Privacy Notice in full to ensure you are completely informed about your personal data. However, if you only want to access a particular section of this Privacy Notice, then you can click on the relevant link above to jump to that section.

Scott Advisory Ltd., (“Scott Advisory”) respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal data about you and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice only applies to personal data that we collect through our website at www.scottadvisory.uk, (“Website”).

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal data, then please contact us using the contact details under the How to contact us heading above.

1. What does Scott Advisory do?

Scott Advisory provides independent communications advice to its clients. It combines the latest data analysis technologies with many years of experience to deliver insights to clients that inform strategy and guide effective execution. We build trusted partnerships with our clients and are their critical friends, empowering them with compelling, credible narratives for their most important audiences, enabling them to rethink how they communicate and with whom.

2. Personal data we collect and process

• The personal data we collect from you, either directly or indirectly, will depend on how you interact with us and with our Website. We collect personal data about you from the following different sources:
• Information that you provide directly
  We collect personal data directly from you when you choose to provide us with this information online. Certain parts of our Website ask you to provide personal data when you engage with the Contact us
• Information that we collect indirectly
  We collect your personal data indirectly, including through automated means from your device when you use our Website. Some of the information we collect indirectly is captured using cookies and other tracking technologies, as explained further in the Cookies and similar tracking technology section below.
• Information from third parties
  We also collect your personal data from third party sources, i.e. our service providers that provide operational assistance, email, marketing and analytics services. Information received from third parties will be checked to ensure that the third party either has your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal data to us.

• The table below describes the categories of personal data we collect from and about you through our activities on our Website.

We do not collect any sensitive personal data about you, such as health-related information or information about your race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

3. How we use your personal data, (our purposes) and our legal basis for processing it

We use the personal data that we collect from and about you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your information. Depending on our purpose for collecting your information, we rely on one of the following legal bases:

• Consent – in certain circumstances, we may ask for your consent, (separately from any contract between us) before we collect, use, or disclose your personal data, in which case you can voluntarily choose to give or deny your consent without any negative consequences to you;
• Legitimate interests – we will use or disclose your personal data for the legitimate interests of either Scott Advisory or a third party, but only when we are confident that your privacy rights will remain appropriately protected. If we rely on our, (or a third party’s) legitimate interests, these interests will normally be to: operate, provide and improve our business, including our Website; communicate with you and respond to your questions; improve our Website or use the insights to improve or develop marketing activities and promote our products and services; detect or prevent illegal activities, (for example, fraud); and/or to manage the security of our IT infrastructure, and the safety and security of our employees, customers, vendors and visitors. Where we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, it will be in a way which is reasonable for you to expect as part of the running of our business and which does not materially affect your rights and freedoms. We have identified below what our legitimate interests are; or
• Legal obligation – there are instances where we must process and retain your personal data to comply with laws or to fulfil certain legal obligations.

The following table provides more details on our purposes for processing your personal data and the related legal bases. The legal basis under which your personal data is processed will depend on the data concerned and the specific context in which we use it.

4. Who we share your personal data with

We share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• third party service providers and partners who provide data processing services to us as necessary to provide you with our goods and/or services, (to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Website) or who otherwise process personal data for purposes described in this Privacy Notice;
• third party services when you use third party services linked through our Website. Please note that when you use third party services, their own terms and privacy notices will govern your use of their services;
• any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party, (such as our professional advisers) where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or so a third party can defend theirs, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
• a buyer, (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal data only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice; or
• any other person with your consent to the disclosure, (obtained separately from any contract between us).

5. Cookies and similar tracking technology

We use cookies and similar tracking technology, (collectively, “Cookies”) to collect and use personal data about you. For further information about the types of Cookies we use, why, and how you can control Cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

6. How we keep your personal data secure

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the personal data that we collect and process about you. The measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing.

7. International data transfers

In some cases, where your personal data is transferred to third parties, it is processed in countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country, (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

Specifically, our Website servers are located in the UK. Our third-party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal data, we will process it in any of these countries.

Where we transfer your personal data to countries or organisations outside of the UK, which have been formally recognised as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data, we rely on the relevant “adequacy regulations,” (data bridges) from the Secretary of State in the UK

Where the transfer is not subject to an adequacy decision or regulations, we have taken appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal data will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable laws.

8. Data retention

We retain the personal data we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate need to do so, (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements). The specific retention periods depend on the nature of the information and why it is collected and processed and the nature of the legal requirement.

When we have no ongoing legitimate need or legal reason to process your personal data, we will either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible, (for example, because your personal data has been stored in backup archives) then we will securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

9. Your data protection rights

Individuals located in the UK and EEA have the following data protection rights. To exercise any of them see specific instructions below or contact us using the contact details provided under the How to contact us heading below.

• You may access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal data.
• You can object to processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict processing of your personal data.
• You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing, (such as postal marketing or telemarketing), please contact us using the contact details provided under the How to contact us heading below. If you choose to opt out of marketing communications, we will still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your account or our ongoing business
• If we have collected and processed your personal data with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time by using the contact details provided under the How to contact us heading below. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
• You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, please contact your local supervisory authority. Contact details for supervisory authorities in Europe are available here and for the UK here. Certain supervisory authorities will require that you exhaust our own internal complaints process before looking into your complaint.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

10. Updates to this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Notice.

11. How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal data, please contact us using the Contact us section of our Website.

The data controller of your personal data is Scott Advisory Ltd.

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Who we are

We are Scott Advisory Ltd., (“Scott Advisory”) (company number: 16691610), (“we”, “our” and “us”). We operate the website www.scottadvisory.uk. 

What are cookies?

Scott Advisory tries to give the visitors to our website the best experience possible. One of the ways we achieve this is by using cookies.

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree when you visit the website. These may be cookies, web pixels, beacons or other web files and will all be referred to as “cookies” in this policy.

Cookies are used on websites to help visitors navigate around them effectively. They are also used to perform certain functions within a website, such as displaying certain content to you and remembering login details.

Cookies also provide information to us so we can analyse visitor behaviour patterns, for example, how many visitors view a particular page.

Our use of cookies

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to access our website.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to, for example, personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences, (for example your choice of language or region).

You can find out more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.

We may change the cookies we use from time to time so we recommend that you review this cookies policy and your cookies settings regularly.  

How to manage cookies

Your internet browser also allows you to manage cookies. You will be able to remove and disable any cookies at any time through the settings in your internet browser. The method for doing this will be different depending on your chosen browser. Please see the relevant links below for further information:

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Internet Explorer:  https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

Opera: https://blogs.opera.com/news/2015/08/how-to-manage-cookies-in-opera/

For more information about cookies and how to remove them go to: https://aboutcookies.org

Please note that disabling any necessary cookies may cause our website to function incorrectly.

This information applies only to this website and not to other websites to which this site links.

How to contact us 

If you would like any further information about how we use cookies, contact admin@scottadvisory.uk