A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer’s hard drive to help store your user preferences, login and session states, analyse web traffic or let you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Cookies used on this site
The following cookies may be set.
WordPress Cookies
WordPress is the content management system used by this website. WordPress uses cookies to keep track of logged in users.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics: __ga, __gat: We use Google Analytics to monitor and report on our website usage such as the number of visitors to the site, search phrases used to find us, pages visited on the site and time spent on the site. The statistics gathered are a necessary requirement in order for us to provide and improve our value added products and services and to stay competitive. The cookies do not identify users nor associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.
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. Google’s privacy policy is found here http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Advertising
We use paid for advertising services such as ‘Google AdWords’ to help us promote our products and services online.
To analyse the effectiveness of our paid for advertising we use ‘Google Adwords Conversion tracker’ which uses cookies to help us determine how many people who clicked on our Google Ads end up contacting us through the website. This tracking cookie is set on your browser only when you click on a Google Ad and these cookies help us increase the website’s effectiveness for our visitors.
These cookies expire within 30 days and do not contain information that can identify you personally. Please refer to the https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ for more information about Google Conversion Tracking and the ability to opt out.
Ecommerce
We use a third party Ecommerce solution ‘Ecwid’ that integrates into this website allowing our customers to securely purchase our products online. Ecwid doesn’t store ANY information in cookies. Instead of cookies, Ecwid uses browser`s local storage.
For unregistered customer the following information is stored:
- the number of items in cart
- the preferable category layout
– the ID of the opened Ecwid store
If customer adds any product to cart, the local storage will also contain:
- products added to cart
- the shipping address which is automatically detected by IP
If customer goes to checkout, the local storage will have:
– the billing and the shipping address entered during checkout
If customer has created an account or has logged in, it will also have:
- Ecwid session token
Embedded Content (e.g. YouTube videos)
Occasionally, the webmaster may embed content from other sites and services into web pages (for example, embedding a YouTube video into a page). When third party services are used like this, they will usually set their own cookies in addition to the cookies listed above.
Social Media Sharing
We also give users the opportunity to share our content through social media sites such as Facebook & Twitter. By using these features, you are consent to allow cookies from these providers. More information about how these providers use cookies can be found at their websites: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ & https://twitter.com/en/privacy
How to disable cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout