Cookies are in use on this site

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as do almost all websites, 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 to:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • 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 continue to offer the free information on this website, to improve the paid-for products we offer and to develop new products

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 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 (ie: 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.

Also, you will see a pop-up window at the bottom of the page when you first visit; this informs you that cookies are in use. You can either "agree" or click on "learn more", which brings you to this page and may well be how you arrived here. If you ignore the pop-up window it will eventually go away. Again, we take your continued use of this site to indicate you agreement to our use of cookies.

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 use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Making our shopping basket and checkout work
  • Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you subscribed to our Newsletter)
  • 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: 2Checkout.com, PayPal.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.


Site Improvement Cookies

We may test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.

We use 1shoppingcart for this.


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 how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to focus our resources more effectively in developing our website and products for you.

We use Google Analytics and Site Build It.


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 website, and a large proportion of the world's websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

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.


Acknowledgement

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, Scotland. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.