Cookie Policy
What are cookies
We and our business partners collect information about your use of our website through cookies. Cookies are information files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone which help websites remember who you are and the information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in such a way that it matches your interests. Mostly ALL major websites use cookies.
What cookies are used on this website?
The cookies we and our business partners use on this website are broadly grouped into the following categories:
Essential
Some of the cookies on our website are essential for us to use and enables us to provide you with a service that you have requested. An example of this would be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account on the website or which allows communication between your browser and the website. Our cookie preference cookie described in the section “How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?” is also an essential cookie. You may not be able to use our website without these cookies.
Analytics
We use analytics cookies to help us understand how our users engage with our website. For example we count the number of different people coming to our website or using a particular feature, instead of the total number of times the site or feature is used. If we do not use this cookie and you visited the website once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. If this were the case we would find it extremely difficult to correctly analyse how well our website is performing and subsequently how we can improve it.
Cookies
We use cookies to improve your experience of using our website as they remember your preferences.
Sharing
Cookies allow you to share content directly on social networking/sharing sites, like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. For example when you “like” or “tweet” about a business or product advertised on our website.
Can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?
When you arrive on our website a message bar will appear drawing your attention to the fact that the website uses cookies and invites you to review this cookie policy and manage your cookie preferences. If you do not set your preferences despite this prompt a cookie preference consent will be confirmed allowing us to use cookies detailed in this cookie policy.
Please note that we can’t always control third party cookies stored on your machine from our website and setting your cookie preferences with us will not stop those third party cookies from being stored on your machine, you must manage these cookies directly with the relevant third party, please see our “Cookies List” section below for more information.
If you have previously consented to us storing cookies on your machine but then change your mind, you can do the following:
• To delete the cookies from your browser. Most browsers also allow you to prevent all or some cookies being stored on your machine in the future. Need more information on how to delete or disable these cookies? www.allaboutcookies.org.
• If you delete our cookie preference cookie then the next time you visit this website the cookie message bar will appear again inviting you to reconsider your preferences.
• In the event you would like to reject some or ALL of the third party cookies you will need to visit the third party’s website directly where you will be able to manage cookies stored on your machine by them. Below is a list of our “Cookies” both First and Third Party.
• Please be aware that disabling cookies may impact the functionality of this website.
First Party Cookies
WordPress – Analytics Cookie
Standard wordpress cookies. WordPress uses cookies, or tiny pieces of information stored on your computer, to verify who you are. There are cookies for logged in users and for commenters.
For more information or to opt out – https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
Wordfence – Security Cookie
WordPress Security Plugin cookie
For more information or to opt out – https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
Google – Analytical and Social Sharing Cookie
Google provide anonymised data about the visits made to our website.
Google also store cookies which allow the “Google +” social sharing functionality.
For more information or to opt out – https://policies.google.com/privacy
Facebook – Social Sharing Cookie
Facebook store cookies which allow the Facebook “Like” social sharing functionality but only if you click on the Facebook “Follow us” button on our website
For more information or to opt out – www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Twitter – Social Sharing Cookie
Twitter also store cookies which allow their social sharing functionality including the “Tweet” function and to generate usage information during your visit to our website.
For more information or to opt out – twitter.com/privacy
Third Party Cookies
Issuu – Analytical and Interest-Based Advertising Cookie
Issuu collect data for the analytics and for the purpose of interest-based advertising.
For more information or to opt out – https://issuu.com/legal/privacy
Addthis.com – Social Sharing Cookie
AddThis store cookies which allow the social sharing functionality on social networks such as Facebook.
For more information or to opt out – https://www.addthis.com/privacy
Mailchimp – Analytical and Social Sharing Cookie
Mailchimp use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect Personal Information, or to collect information that becomes Personal Information if they combine it with other information.
For more information or to opt out – https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
We may update this policy from time to time so you may want to check it each time you visit our website. We last changed this policy on 12th June 2018.
