At Walter Scott & Partners Limited (Walter Scott), we take the issue of privacy very seriously. We would like to assure visitors to our Website of the security, privacy and confidentiality that they would expect from a leading financial services institution.

We do not collect any personal information from anyone who is merely visiting or browsing our Website. However, personal information may be requested from visitors who choose to respond to online surveys, to send Walter Scott an email message or to apply for certain products and services online.

Through use of a "Contact Us" feedback form, visitors to our Website are invited to send email messages to Walter Scott in order that we may respond to enquiries regarding Walter Scott or its products or services.

A cookie is a small piece of information about an Internet session that may be created when a visitor accesses a Website. Presently, our Website uses cookies to facilitate easier navigation within the site and provide a higher level of convenience for the visitor. Your internet browser is likely to accept cookies by default, however you can set your browser to reject cookies and delete them from your system anytime. The cookies used by Walter Scott do not retrieve any information from the visitor's personal computer.

We use the information collected from visitors to our Website to address the specific needs of those visitors and to provide better customer service.

The information collected is also used to maintain a record of communications between Walter Scott and its Website visitors, and to comply with any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.

The uses of your personal information are covered by the registration of Walter Scott under the Data Protection Act 1998. The personal information you supply will be held on a database and may be shared with and used by any company within BNY Mellon Asset Management in the U.K and internationally who are obliged by law or agreement to comply with the principles set out in the Data Protection Act. Under the Act you have the right to obtain a copy of the information held about you for which you may be charged a fee. You hereby agree that we may use, disclose and transfer this personal data as described herein. If you do not wish for your details to be used in the above manner please write to Walter Scott, One Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR.

Selected Walter Scott employees have access to the information collected in order to respond to each visitor's needs and provide that visitor with information. Walter Scott employees are instructed to use strict standards of care when handling the personal/confidential information of Walter Scott customers.

Walter Scott does not transmit any personal information collected through its Websites to any third-party marketers. However, Walter Scott does offer the opportunity to its Website visitors to link to the Web pages of third parties who provide products and services not supplied by Walter Scott. Once the visitor leaves the Walter Scott site, Walter Scott does not receive any further information from the visitor.

Visitors having specific questions regarding any information they have sent to Walter Scott through the Walter Scott Website should send an email to info@walterscott.com.