Who is responsible

HOGD Scotland is responsible for personal information handled through this website and its enquiry correspondence. For privacy questions or requests, use the contact address shown on the Contact page: contact [at] hogd-scotland [dot] com.

Email enquiries

This website has no contact form and does not collect or store enquiry text. If you contact HOGD Scotland by email, we receive the information you choose to include, such as your name, email address, message and any information contained in your signature or attachments.

Why we use enquiry information

We use enquiry information to read and respond to your message, manage related correspondence, protect the integrity and security of our communications, and keep records where reasonably necessary. For ordinary enquiries, our lawful basis is legitimate interests: responding to people who choose to contact us and administering that correspondence. We do not use enquiry content for advertising, profiling or automated decision-making.

Sensitive information

An enquiry to a spiritual organisation can reveal religious or philosophical beliefs. Please keep a first message general and do not include health information, confidential material or personal information about other people unless it is genuinely necessary. Where sensitive information is volunteered, it is handled only as necessary for the enquiry and in accordance with applicable data protection law.

Website visits and service providers

The website itself does not run analytics, advertising pixels, social-media tracking or remotely loaded fonts. If the site is delivered or protected through Cloudflare, Cloudflare may process technical request data such as IP addresses, request headers, timestamps and security signals in order to serve and protect the website. Email correspondence is handled through Zoho Mail. These providers operate their own infrastructure and may process data outside the UK depending on the service configuration; where international transfers occur, applicable data-protection safeguards apply.

Retention

Enquiry correspondence is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with the enquiry and any related follow-up, or longer where there is a legitimate administrative, safeguarding or legal reason to retain it. Information that is no longer needed is deleted or otherwise disposed of appropriately.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data. To make a privacy request, contact HOGD Scotland at the address above. You can also raise a concern with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office if you are unhappy with how your information has been handled.

External links

Links to external resources take you to separate websites with their own privacy and information practices. HOGD Scotland is not responsible for the privacy practices of those external sites.

Last updated: 6 October 2026.

No tracking or advertising cookies

HOGD Scotland does not use analytics, advertising, social-media tracking or personalisation cookies. The website’s own code does not set cookies and does not use local storage or session storage to track visits or store enquiry content.

Cloudflare security cookies

If Cloudflare security features are enabled or triggered for this domain, Cloudflare may set strictly necessary cookies to distinguish legitimate traffic, maintain a security challenge or protect the availability of the website. Depending on the feature in use, these may include cookies such as __cf_bm or cf_clearance. HOGD Scotland does not use these cookies for advertising or visitor profiling.

Why there is no cookie banner

The current website is not configured to use non-essential storage or tracking technologies. A consent banner is therefore not shown for this configuration. If non-essential technologies are introduced in future, this notice and any required consent controls will be updated before they are enabled.

Direct email and clipboard

The Contact page does not submit information to this website. The “Copy email address” button writes the contact address to your device’s clipboard only when you activate it; it does not create a cookie or website-storage entry.

Local assets and external links

The site’s emblem, decorative artwork, styling and scripts are included with the page and do not require an external font, analytics or social-media service. Links to third-party websites are separate; those sites may use their own cookies or storage technologies after you follow a link, and their own notices apply.

Last updated: 6 October 2026.