Our Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all websites this site uses cookies. These are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store them. We will also share how you can prevent them from being stored. You should know that preventing them being stored may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…

How We Use Them

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies. Disabling cookies normally means disabling the functionality 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.

Disabling Cookies

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 these will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable them.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use them 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.

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

Third Party

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which ones you might encounter through this site.

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. These may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookie policy, see the official Google Analytics page.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site. They allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, will set them 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.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you. 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. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.