Cookies And How They Benefit Us and You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best
experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile
phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the
- price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are
adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that
you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can
learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as
you would expect.
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common
example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and
Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be
dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our
website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify
when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they
spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our
website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous
basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been
here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of
marketing spend.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from
accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of
our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard
part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather
than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves
the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more
about managing cookies with antispyware software.