Privacy policy
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Disclaimer
The Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS) seeks to ensure that the information published on its website is up to date and accurate. However, the information on the website does not constitute legal or professional advice and JABS cannot accept any liability for actions arising from its use. JABS cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.
Any personal data collected through this website will be treated as confidential in line with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Information Collection
The Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS) is the sole owner of the information collected on this website.
Personal information collected from online applications
If you have applied for judicial office online the information collected when you register is retained by our website hosts Civic Computing, in order for them to manage your account (previous/subsequent applications). Civic Computing will not share your information with any other organisations.
If you do not wish your details retained by Civic Computing for future applications, please let us know.
Subscription
You may wish to subscribe to receive regular news, information and updates about JABS via email. Follow the 'Subscribe' link in order to subscribe. The information needed to allow you to register to the website is your full name and email address if you wish to receive email updates.
This information is stored securely on the JABS database until such time as a user chooses to unsubscribe. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe option.
Registration
You do not have to register to use the JABS website, but you will need to register if you wish to apply online for judicial office. The registration information needed to apply online includes your email address. The application process itself involves the storage of comprehensive personal data. This data is stored securely on the JABS database.
Sharing
Legal Disclaimer
Though JABS will make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Website.
Third Party Intermediaries
JABS uses an outside contractor to manage our user database. This company does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Links
This Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that JABS, is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the JABS site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.
Use of Cookies
This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.
| Cookie Name | Description |
| HACIVICLB | Load Balancer: This cookie is used by CIVIC's load balancer to identify the server that is active for your request on our cluster. It's purpose is to improve the performance of the website. This is an essential cookie to the operation of the site that is always set by the load balancer and does not store any personal information. |
| HAAPPLB | Load Balancer: This cookie is used by CIVIC's load balancer to identify the server that is active for your request on our cluster. It's purpose is to improve the performance of the website. This is an essential cookie to the operation of the site that is always set by the load balancer and does not store any personal information. |
| JSESSIONID | This is a simple token used by Java applications to identify your unique session on the website. Typically used to maintain the integrity of your session while transacting information with a website (accessing secure areas, forms submissions etc) |
| civicAllowCookies civicShowCookieIcon |
Cookie Control: When you click "I'm happy with this..." on the Cookie Control user interface, a cookie is set in order to remember your preference. These cookies are set only after the user has given consent to us to use cookies. |
| __utma | Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website. |
| __utmb | Google Analytics stores IP address anonamously on its servers in the US, and neither CIVIC or Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information. |
| __utmc | These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session. |
| __utmz | These cookies are set only after the user has given consent to us to use cookies. |
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Piwik: We use Piwik to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website.
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