Cookies

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
  • Enable you to login to our members area, forums, and blog
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of our website
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter
  • Personalise our website to you to help you get what you need faster
  • Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below, and find out more technical information about what cookies are at www.whatarecookies.com (or try an Internet search).

We are providing this additional information about our cookies in compliance with ‘EU cookie law’. See the ICO website for more information.

 

GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE COOKIES

If the settings on your software that you are using to view our website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, and you continue to use our website, we take it to mean that you accept our usage of cookies.

Note most Internet browsing software facilities disabling cookies per website, and you are free to do this, but note that our website will not work as you would expect. For example, you will not be able to register as a member, log in to our members area, forums, or blog.

OUR OWN COOKIES

Various functional elements of our website set cookies. These are to enable you to register as a member, login to our members area, forums, and blog.

We don’t set cookies to collect and personal information without your express permission. We don’t use cookies to pass on personally identifiable data to third parties.

SOCIAL WEBSITE COOKIES

So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content by using the Facebook, Twitter, and other social network buttons we have included on our website.

Each social network button may set its own cookies and you can find out more on the relevant websites.

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 and websites.

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 website isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on our website, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These statistics are all anonymous.

MORE INFORMATION

Please email us if you have any questions.