Cookie Policy  

 

What Are Cookies 

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your browsing experience. This page describes what information we gather, 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 our website’s functionality. 

 

How We Use Cookies 

We use cookies for a variety 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 on 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. 

 

Disabling Cookies 

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this or use the selections on our cookie bar at the bottom of the page). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.  

 

The Cookies We Set 

‘My Account’ related cookies 

  • If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup 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 logged out. 

Login related cookies 

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

Email newsletters related cookies 

  • Our website offers newsletter or email signups and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid 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. 

Forms related cookies 

  • When you submit data to 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 preferences cookies 

  • In order 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. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page 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 might encounter through this site. 

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the market for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. 
  • For more information on 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 such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you. 
  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users might appreciate the most. 
  • As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price. 
  • Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase. 
  • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites; Facebook and Twitter, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
     

A list of all the cookies we use are below:

Our cookie bar consent: CookieLawInfoConsent
Website cookies: PHPSESSID
Live chat: TawkConnectionTime
Live chat: tk_ai
Secure payments: __stripe_mid
Our cookie bar consent: cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
Our cookie bar consent: viewed_cookie_policy
Our cookie bar consent: cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary
Email newsletter subscribes: mailchimp.cart.current_email
Email newsletter subscribes: mailchimp_landing_site
Email newsletter subscribes: mailchimp_user_email
Our shopping cart: woocommerce_cart_hash
Our shopping cart: woocommerce_items_in_cart
Our website: wordpress_logged_in_7f03cf14231893a1521200dfa52eddc3
Our website: wordpress_sec_7f03cf14231893a1521200dfa52eddc3
Our website: wordpress_sec_7f03cf14231893a1521200dfa52eddc3
Our website: wordpress_test_cookie
Our website: wp-settings-3
Our website: wp-settings-time-3
Our website: wp_woocommerce_session_7f03cf14231893a1521200dfa52eddc3

 

Hopefully, this has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. If you still require more information you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods: