Cookies In Use on This Site
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
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- 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
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
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We are currently not using any cookies to make our website work, other than those listed below under "Third party functions".
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
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.
We use:
- _utma - Google analytics
- _utmb - Google analytics
- _utmc - Google analytics
- _utmz - Google analytics
Affiliate Cookies
We have a number of partners who promote their service on a success-only basis (i.e. instead of paying for advertising, they pay us a
commissions on sales). Cookies are required to allow them to reward us and these cookies are usually provided by specialist companies (known as affiliate networks).
Neither us, the networks, or the partner advertising on our website are able to identify you personally. We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which
ultimately help us to offer you the service we do at the price we do. Our affiliate cookies are provided by:
- TD_PIC - Tradedoubler.com
- BT - Tradedoubler.com
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.
