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.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. 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.
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 site, therefore it is recommended
that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Forms related cookies
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.
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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.
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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.
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As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the
visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that
these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make
business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure
the best possible price.
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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.
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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 that they may provide you for making a purchase.
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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, Instagram, Pinterest, 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.
More Information
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. This Cookies
Policy was created with the help of the
Cookies Policy Template Generator and the
Privacy Policy Template Generator.