Our Cookie Policy

Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they Benefit 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
– Remember your settings during and between visits
– Improve the speed/security of the site
– 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

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

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.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

CookieConsent – Remembering if you have accepted our cookie policy or not.
cookie_notice_accepted – Remembering if you have accepted our cookie policy or not.
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:

YouTube – Privacy Policy powers the videos on our site
Google – Privacy Policy
ds/ga-audiences  – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy – Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
ads/user-lists/# – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy – Used by Google AdWords to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
NID – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy – Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
PREF – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy – Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – Google – Privacy Policy – Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
YSC – Google – Privacy Policy – Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

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.

We use:

_ga – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy – We use this to see how you found our site, and the content you view whilst on it.
_gat – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy – Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_gid – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
collect – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy – Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
IDE – Google Analytics – Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. 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