What are Cookies?
Who we are
As is common practice with almost all websites, this site uses cookies. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience with the website. This page details what information they gather, how we use this information, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.
We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. We must warn you however, that disabling cookies may downgrade or prevent certain elements of our website from functioning properly. Third-party websites may also collect information via our website through cookies.
These third-parties collect data directly from the web browser that you are using. The processing of this data is subject to their own privacy policies, which we strongly recommend you read in full.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to ensure that your experience whilst using our website is a good one. We also use the information stored to further improve our website and its performance. We may also provide tailored marketing communications that we feel will be relevant to you based on how you have used the website in the past.
Please see below a breakdown of the cookies we place and why we use them:
Our website has two groups of cookies – Required and Performance & Marketing. When visiting the website for the first time, or if you have cleared the cache/history in your browser, you will be asked to accept cookies and have the option to choose which ones you would like us to set. As highlighted below, Required cookies will be set if chosen and Performance & Marketing cookies will be set alongside Required if that option is chosen. You have the right to update your cookie settings at any time by clicking on the Cookie Preferences link at the bottom of our website.
- Required
- Performance & Marketing
How We Use Cookies
- IP Address
- Unique cookie identifier
- Unique device identifier
- Device, browser type and language
- Operating System (OS)
- Country and relevant time zone
- Websites previously visited
- Site interaction information such as clicks and purchases
- Access times and referral URLs
Are Cookies Safe?
Disabling Cookies
Cookies We Set
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the sign-up 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. 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 areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter 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.
Where our site offers e-commerce or payment facilities some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly. We do not store payment information such as credit/debit card details on our website. If selected your credit card details may be stored through our third-party accounts system
When you submit data through a form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third-Party Cookies
In some cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter whilst using our website:
This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, for helping us to understand how you use the site, and to find 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.
The Google AdWords service we use, uses third-party Google cookies on our site to see to serve more relevant ads to users across the web at a later time, or show users similar product or service ads, based on the interest that they have shown by visiting our site. Our marketing merely control the duration and to some extent the frequency of our ads. If you wish to opt immediately out of Google’s AdWords remarketing programme, please follow this link: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
We also use social media buttons on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus 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.
We recommend that you read cookie policies on all websites that you visit outside of our website, as we are not responsible for the cookies these websites set when you visit them.
