What are cookies?
As is common practice this website uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how it is used, and why they sometimes need to be stored. Information on how you can prevent these cookies from being stored is also provided, alongside details of how this may break certain elements of the site’s functionality.
For more general information on cookies, try the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
Cookies set on this website
If you create an account then cookies will be used for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Cookies are used when you are logged in so that the website can remember this fact. Cookies prevent you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This website offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
This website publishes user surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand the user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
When you submit data to through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this, or try a Google search). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.
Third party cookies
In some special cases cookies provided by trusted third parties are used by this website. This section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this website.
This website uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web, to record statistics on how you use the website and find ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the website and the pages that you visit.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this website to record statistics on how you use the website and find ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the website and the pages that you visit.
As this website sells products it’s important to track particular kinds of data: for example, about how many of the visitors to the website actually make a purchase. Cookies are used for this, as well as to monitor advertising and product costs – to assist competitiveness.
More information
If you are looking for more information, or have any questions about the information on this page, enquiries can be made through our contact information found easily throughout this website.