Cookies
What cookies are and how we use them.
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
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like
Facebook
- 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 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
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Remembering your search settings
- Remembering your preferences such as colours, text size and
layout
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:
Disabling these 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.
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 (Learn how here).
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.
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.