What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file sent by our server and stored on your computer when you visit our website. Cookies are used for a lot of practical reasons: none of which are meant to be harmful for you. Cookies will help make your online experience go more smoothly.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how people use our website.
We use Google Analytics to collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and is anonymous, meaning we can’t use it to identify you.
You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site, opt out here.
To learn more about how your data is used in Google Analytics, visit their Data Privacy & Security page.
WordPress Cookies
If you comment on our site using the WordPress commenting system, you will have cookies stored on your computer. This is purely a convenience, so that you don’t have to re-type all your information again when you want to leave another comment. Only the following information is stored: name, email address and the website URL. The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set.
Third Party Cookies
These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allowing visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, we have inserted scripts from social media networks on our site. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the Internet, including our website.
On some pages of our site we have inserted Facebook’s conversion tracking pixel to track user behaviour between our Facebook ads and our site. We cannot individually identify users that have seen our ads and visited our website. We look at reports by Facebook to analyse the effectiveness and performance of our advertising campaigns.
For information how Facebook handles data and privacy, click here.
Display Advertising
- We have implemented Display Advertising and use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online. It means that third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the Internet.
- Along with third-party vendors, including Google, we use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.
- If you want to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising, just customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings or use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will instruct the Google Analytics JavaScript not to send any information about your visit to Google Analytics.
Email Marketing
You can choose to sign up to our newsletter by providing your name and email address. We respect your privacy and will not share your information with third parties.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may at any time, without notice to you and at our sole discretion, amend this policy from time to time. Please review this policy periodically. Your continued use of our site after any such amendments signifies your acceptance of the changes.