WHAT ARE COOKIES?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also tell you how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may result in certain elements of the website's functionality being downgraded or "broken".

For more general information about cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP cookies...

HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies for various reasons listed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functions and features they add to this website. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

DISABLE COOKIES

You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting the settings in your browser (see your browser's Help for information on how to do this). Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will usually also result in disabling certain functions and features of this website. Therefore, it is recommended not to disable cookies.

THE COOKIES WE SET

If you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the login process and general administration. These cookies are usually deleted when you log out. However, in some cases they remain after you log out to save your website preferences.

We use cookies when you are logged in so we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new site. These cookies are typically removed or deleted when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This website offers newsletter or email subscription services. Cookies can be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications, which may only be valid for subscribed/unsubscribed users.

This website offers e-commerce or payment options. Some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

From time to time we may offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights and helpful tools or to understand our user base in more detail. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already completed a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you turn pages.

If you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this website, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this website runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called when you interact with a page affected by your preferences.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section describes which third-party cookies you may encounter through this website.

This website uses Google Analytics, one of the most widely used and trusted analytics solutions on the Internet, to understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so that we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official Google Analytics page.

Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this website so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may, for example, track how much time you spend on the website or which pages you visit. This helps us understand how we can improve the website for you.

From time to time we test new features and make minor changes to the way the website is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the website and to ensure that we understand which optimizations our users value most.

When selling products, it is important for us to understand statistics about how many visitors to our website actually make a purchase. Therefore, this data is collected by these cookies. This is important to you because it allows us to make accurate business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

The Google AdSense service, which we use to advertise, uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the Internet and to limit the number of times a particular ad is shown to you.

For more information about Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense Privacy FAQ.

We use advertisements to offset the costs of running this website and to provide funds for further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used on this website are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

In some cases, we may provide you with customized content based on your direct or indirect information about yourself by linking a social media account. These types of cookies only allow us to provide you with content that we believe will be of interest to you.

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see whether our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can give them appropriate credit and, if appropriate, provide our affiliate partners with the opportunity to receive any Provide bonus offer to you for purchasing.

MORE INFORMATION

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as previously mentioned if it interacts with one of the features you use on our website if you are not sure whether you need it or not it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled not. However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us using one of our preferred contact methods.