Cookie policy
This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. A cookie is a small file made up of letters and numbers, which we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Find Business Support is delivered by Scottish Enterprise and Partners.
Cookies help the delivery partners of Find Business Support (“us” or “we”) to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, and also allow us to improve our website. We assume that you are happy to receive all the cookies in the categories that you elect to allow, or which are strictly necessary for the operation of our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of our website.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry |
| SE_FBS_Necessary_AllowedCookies | This cookie is used to record your preferences in regard to accepting marketing, performance or functionality cookies across the site. | 1 year |
| se_session | This cookie is used to provide secure access to Scottish Enterprise website features such as address lookup and form validation/submissions. | When browser is closed |
Performance and analytics cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they're using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works – for example, by ensuring that users can find what they're looking for easily.
| Third party service | Purpose | Where to find out more |
| Google Analytics | Google Analytics helps us analyse the behaviour of users on our site, such as which pages they view, how long they spend on each page, and which elements they interact with. | How Google uses cookiesopens in a new window |
| Hotjar | Hotjar helps us analyse the behaviour of users on our site by collating data into heatmaps, scrollmaps and other visual representations. It also allows us to add short surveys to the site. | Cookies set by the Hotjar tracking codeopens in a new window |
Marketing cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
| Third party service | Purpose | Where to find out more |
| Google Ads | By consenting to advertising we will share personal data with Google Ads to perform ad measurement services on our behalf, and that we obtain customer consent for such sharing and use where legally required. Google Ads help us to show pay per click ads in Google search results. These cookies help us track who comes to our site through these ads, so we know how successful they are. By granting permission for marketing cookies, you are confirming that you are happy to be tracked from our sites and receive targeted marketing based on your Google account details. | How Google uses cookiesopens in a new window |
Further information
This website will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies set by this or any third party websites, you can do so through your browser settings. The Help function in your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit the About cookies websiteopens in a new window, which contains comprehensive information about cookies and how to restrict or delete cookies on a wide variety of browsers.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of the website.
All our websites use a number of suppliers who set cookies on our behalf in order to deliver the services they provide. We constantly review our use of cookies, and this cookies policy will be regularly renewed to include up-to-date information about the cookies used by our suppliers. We highly recommend that you check this page on a regular basis for updates.