What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which 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 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.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies...
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately is 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.
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 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. Therefore it is recommended that you do
not disable cookies.
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 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.
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.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered
and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
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.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies 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 cookies 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 cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the
web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
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 following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, 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.
