Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are small 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 share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

How do we use cookies?

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

Disable cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser Help for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in disabling certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Types of cookies

Account-related cookies

If you create an account, the cookies will be used to manage the registration process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when you log out.

These cookies are used when you are logged in so that this action is remembered. This saves you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are normally removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

Cookies related to email newsletters

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Orders processing related cookies

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

Search-related cookies

Periodically, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, useful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after you change pages.

Forms-related cookies

When 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.

Site preference cookies

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

Third Party Cookies

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

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us understand how you use the site and ways we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things like how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

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

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

Periodically, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site appears. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site in order for us to understand which optimisations our users appreciate most.

As we sell products it is important that we understand statistics about how many visitors to our website actually purchase and so this is the type of data these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means we can accurately make business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

More information

Hopefully that's clear, and as mentioned previously, if there's something you're not sure whether you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our site.

This policy is effective from October/2021.