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
- 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 website more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
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 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.
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
Cookie Type | Cookie Name(s) | Purpose | More information |
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Session Cookie | – | Session Cookie – to enable website to function.This cookie is deleted when a user closes their browser. | Learn more about session cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. |
1st Party | wpfilebase | 1st Party Cookie – WP Filebase – This cookie is produced by the File Downloads Plugin that enables the ‘Downloads area’ of the website to function including the downloads search facility. This cookie is a ‘persistent cookie’ that can be deleted via your browser’s privacy / security settings. | Learn more about persistent cookies at . |
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
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:
Cookie Type | Cookie Name(s) | Purpose | More information |
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external_referer _twitter_sess guest_id |
These cookies are used to allow Twitter to be integrated with the website. | Learn more about Twitter cookies here – . |
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
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, how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
Cookie Type | Cookie Name(s) | Purpose | More information |
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Google Analytics | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Learn more about Google Analytics cookies at . |
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here at All About Cookies). 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