Cookie Policy
Updated 26 July 2026
Plain-language summary
We use essential cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the Website. We use analytics, preference or other non-essential technologies only where you have made an appropriate choice through the cookie banner or preference centre. You can change or withdraw your choices at any time.
1. About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how the Argyll group uses cookies and similar storage and access technologies on www.argylldev.com and associated web pages (the “Website”).
It should be read together with the Argyll Group Privacy Notice and the Website Terms of Use. Where a specific platform, application, customer portal, API or hosted service has a separate cookie or privacy notice, that notice will apply in addition to this policy.
2. The Argyll companies
The Website presents information about the following companies:
· Argyll Development Holdings Ltd, company number SC888649;
· Argyll Energy Development Ltd, company number SC759139; and
· Argyll Data Development Ltd, company number SC759203.
All three companies have their registered office at: Killellan Farm, Toward, Argyll, PA23 7UJ, United Kingdom.
Argyll Data Development Ltd provides the Website’s technical hosting, administration, maintenance, security and management services. The relevant Argyll company remains responsible for the content, activities, products or services attributed to it.
3. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files stored on a computer, phone, tablet or other device when a person visits a website. Cookies may recognise a device, remember settings, maintain a secure session or provide information about how a website is used.
The same legal rules may also apply to other technologies that store information on, or access information from, a user’s device. These may include local storage, scripts, tags, pixels, embedded content, link-tracking technologies and similar tools. In this policy, references to “cookies” include these similar technologies where appropriate.
4. The legal rules that apply
Our use of cookies is governed principally by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended (“PECR”). Where cookie information is personal data, the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 also apply.
We provide information about the cookies we use and their purposes. Except where a legal exception applies, we obtain consent before storing information on, or accessing information from, your device.
Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and indicated by a clear positive action. Merely continuing to browse the Website is not treated as consent to non-essential cookies.
5. Types of cookies we use
5.1 Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the Website or a feature requested by you to operate properly. They may be used to:
· deliver pages and balance network traffic;
· maintain security and prevent fraudulent or abusive activity;
· remember cookie-consent choices;
· enable forms or functions specifically requested by you;
· maintain session integrity; and
· support accessibility or core technical functionality.
These cookies are used without consent where the relevant PECR exception applies. They cannot normally be disabled through our preference centre, although browser settings may block them and may cause parts of the Website to stop working correctly.
5.2 Preference and functionality cookies
Preference and functionality cookies remember optional choices, such as display settings, language, region or other customisation. Where these cookies are not strictly necessary to provide a feature you have requested, they are used only with your consent.
5.3 Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how the Website is used and how well it performs. They may collect information about pages viewed, navigation paths, approximate location, device and browser type, referral source, errors, response times and interactions with Website features.
We use these cookies only after consent, unless a specific legal exception applies. Analytics information is used to improve Website design, content, accessibility, security and performance.
5.4 Embedded and third-party content
Some pages may contain content or functionality supplied by another organisation, such as video, mapping, social-media, scheduling, form, security or analytics services. Those providers may place or access cookies when their content is displayed or used.
Non-essential third-party content and cookies are blocked until the relevant consent has been given where technically possible. Third parties may process information under their own privacy and cookie notices.
5.5 Advertising cookies
We do not currently use the Website to conduct behavioural advertising or to build advertising profiles. If this changes, this policy and the cookie preference centre will be updated before such cookies are used.
6. Current providers and technologies
The Website may use the following providers or categories of provider. The precise cookies, purposes and durations currently active are shown in the Website’s cookie preference centre, which forms part of this policy and is updated when the Website configuration changes.
Provider / source
Squarespace or Website host
Strictly necessary; preference
Website delivery, security, session operation, form functionality and recording cookie choices.
Session or as stated in the preference centre
Google Analytics, if enabled
Analytics
Measurement of Website usage, performance and interactions. Activated only after consent.
As stated in the preference centre
Security and infrastructure providers
Strictly necessary
Network security, fraud prevention, load management and service resilience.
Session or limited persistent period
Embedded-content providers, if used
Functionality or third party
Delivery of optional embedded content or features requested by the user.
Provider-specific; shown before or when enabled
We periodically audit the Website to identify cookies and similar technologies, remove those that are not needed, verify their purposes and confirm whether they are first-party or third-party, session or persistent, and exempt or consent-dependent.
7. The cookie banner and your choices
When you first visit the Website, or when we need to refresh your choices, the cookie banner allows you to:
· accept all optional cookies;
· reject all optional cookies; or
· manage individual cookie categories.
The options to accept or reject optional cookies should be presented with equal prominence. Strictly necessary cookies remain active because they are required to provide or secure the Website.
No analytics, preference, advertising or other non-essential cookie is intended to be activated before the relevant choice has been made.
8. How to change or withdraw consent
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by reopening the “Manage cookies” or cookie-preferences control available on the Website. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
You may also delete or block cookies through your browser or device settings. Browser controls vary, but commonly allow you to delete cookies, block all or selected cookies, block third-party cookies, or clear cookies when the browser closes.
Blocking all cookies may prevent security, forms, saved choices or other Website functions from operating correctly.
9. Records of consent
We may store a record of your cookie choices, including the categories accepted or rejected, the date and time of the choice, a consent identifier and limited device or browser information. This record is used to demonstrate and respect your choices and is retained only for an appropriate period.
We may ask you to review your choices again where the cookies used, their purposes, the providers involved or the legal requirements materially change, or after an appropriate interval.
10. Information collected through cookies
Depending on your choices and the Website configuration, cookie-related information may include:
IP address and approximate location derived from it;
device, browser and operating-system details;
pages viewed and features used;
time, date, duration and navigation information;
referral and campaign information;
performance, diagnostic and error information;
security and fraud-prevention signals; and
cookie-consent choices and identifiers.
Further information about how we use personal data, the lawful bases relied upon, recipients, international transfers, retention, security and your rights is provided in the Argyll Group Privacy Notice.
11. Third parties and international processing
Some Website, analytics, security or embedded-content providers may process information outside the United Kingdom or permit authorised personnel outside the United Kingdom to access it. Where personal data is transferred internationally, the relevant Argyll company will use an applicable lawful transfer mechanism and appropriate safeguards, as described in the Argyll Group Privacy Notice.
The use of a third-party cookie does not mean that the third party may use information for unrelated purposes. Our arrangements with service providers should restrict processing to authorised purposes, subject to the provider’s own role and legal responsibilities.
12. Website enquiries
Cookie choices do not determine how information voluntarily submitted through a Website enquiry form is processed. The handling of names, contact details, messages and other enquiry information is explained separately in the Argyll Group Privacy Notice, including any sharing with commercial or technical partners and any international processing.
13. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the law, regulatory guidance, Website functionality, service providers, cookies, similar technologies or our business operations. The effective date at the beginning of the policy will be updated when changes are made.
Where a change materially affects the choices available to users or the purposes for which non-essential cookies are used, we may provide additional notice and request fresh consent.
14. Complaints and questions
Questions, requests or concerns about cookies, similar technologies or the processing of personal data may be directed to:
Peter Griffiths
Director and Group Data Protection Lead
Argyll Development Holdings Ltd
Argyll Energy Development Ltd
Argyll Data Development Ltd
Killellan Farm
Toward
Argyll
PA23 7UJ
United Kingdom
Email: info@argylldev.com
You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office where your concern relates to the processing of personal data or compliance with PECR.