COOKIES

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

As with most websites, our website uses cookies, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

 

How We use Cookies

Cookies enable us to:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect

  • Improve the speed and security of the web site

  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter

  • Continuously improve the web site experience 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 data to advertising networks

  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

  • Pay sales commissions

Learn More About Cookies

Granting Permissions

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.
 

Third Party Functions

Like most websites, our web site includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.

Our site includes the following, which use cookies:

Disabling your 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.

Cookies are set by:

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.

We use:

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. You can learn how to do this by following this link here. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our web site (and a large proportion of the world’s web sites)  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.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.