Cookie Policy
This website uses cookies to collect information about how you navigate through the website and to provide a better overall user experience. By using this website, you consent to the use of cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your browser to a website you visit. A cookie is a small file stored in your browser and allows the website to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the interaction more useful to you.
Cookies can be either
“persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
How we use cookies
To improve your experience this website uses cookies. When you use and access this website, we may place several cookie files in your browser to enable certain functions of the website and improve the user experience.
The cookies we set
We use both session and persistent cookies and may also use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below.
Form-related cookies
When you submit data through a form, cookies may be set to remember your user input and details for future correspondence.
Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out. However, in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
Email newsletter related cookies
This site may offer newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Orders processing related cookies
This site may offer e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so we can process it properly.
Research related cookies
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
Site Preference Cookies
We may provide a set of features to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third-party cookies
We may also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience and continue to produce engaging content.
These cookies can track things such as the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page, how you arrived at the site and what you click on while visiting the site.
Google Analytics does not store personal information, such as your name or address, which means that this information cannot be used to identify you. However, when visiting this site you can disable Google Analytics cookies .
Adsense
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses cookies to serve more relevant ads across the web and to limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information about Google AdSense, see the
official Google AdSense Help Center .
Social media
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the respective social media sites will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Partners
Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus they may provide to you for making a purchase.
Testing tools
From time to time we may use third party tools to test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site and to ensure we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
What are your choices regarding cookies
Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site and some of our pages may not display correctly. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Disabling cookies
If you wish to delete cookies or instruct your browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your browser.
For the Chrome web browser, visit this Google page: support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
For the Internet Explorer web browser, visit this Microsoft page: support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
For the Firefox web browser, visit this Mozilla page: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
For the Safari web browser, visit this Apple page: support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US
For any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official pages.
More information about cookies:
You can learn more about cookies on the following third-party websites:
All about cookies: www.allaboutcookies.org
Network Advertising Initiative: www.networkadvertising.org
For more general information about cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP cookies
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.