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.
- Save you having to login every time you visit the website.
- Remember your settings during and between visits.
- Improve the speed/security of the website.
- Personalise our website to you to help you get what you need faster.
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Twitter
- Continuously improve our website for you.
We do not use cookies to:
- Pass data to advertising networks.
- 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 website you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our website will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- 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 website.
Third party functions
Our website, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our website includes the following which may use cookies:
- Twitter widgets
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 website isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the website, 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 website (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to improve the website.
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 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 website 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 .