Cookie Policy
1. 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
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service 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 data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use in Section 3 below.
2. 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 may not work as you would expect.
3. How and why we use cookies
We use cookies to make our website work, for example allowing you to add comments to the site.
Third party functions: Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. These are:
MailerLite – This company provides the forms which allow you to subscribe to the site or request resources. There is more information in our Privacy Policy.
Youtube – We may embed a YouTube video if we think that it may be of interest to our readers. We embed the video in such a way that it does not leave any cookies unless you watch it. If you watch it, you are using YouTube, owned by Google, who may leave cookies. Google Cookie Policy.
Social Website Cookies - So you can easily “Like” or share our content on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest we have included sharing buttons on our site.
These sites may set cookies and your use of these sharing buttons is governed by the privacy policy of the relevant site:
Facebook - Cookie Policy
Twitter – Cookie Policy
Pinterest – Privacy Policy
The privacy implications of this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Visitor Statistics Cookies - We use cookies to compile aggregate 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 how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to develop the site in accordance with the type of audience that regularly visits us.
The ones we use are Google Analytics and also the in-house analytics provided by our web host which is Weebly.
4. 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 may limit the functionality of the website.
It may be that your 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 based on content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh.
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