Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to help improve your experience when using our website.

This page explains what information cookies gather, how we use them, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We also explain how you can prevent cookies from being stored, although this may downgrade or break certain elements of the site’s functionality.

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

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, as 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 cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them, as they may be used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting the settings in your browser. Please see your browser’s help section for instructions on how to do this.

Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this website and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually also disable certain features and functionality of this site.

For this reason, we recommend that you do not disable cookies unless you are sure you do not need them.

The cookies we set

If you create an account with us, we may use cookies to manage the sign-up process and general account administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, although in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

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

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

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

When you submit information through a form, such as a contact form or comment form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third-party cookies

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

This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widely used and trusted analytics services on the web. Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use the site and how we can improve their experience.

These cookies may track information such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit, so that we can continue to produce useful and engaging content.

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

As we sell products and memberships, it is important for us to understand statistics about how many visitors to our site make a purchase. These cookies help us monitor the effectiveness of our website, advertising and product costs.

For full details of other third-party cookies that may be set as a result of using our website, please review our Privacy Policy.

More information

Hopefully this has clarified how and why we use cookies. As mentioned above, if you are not sure whether you need cookies enabled, it is usually safer to leave them enabled in case they are needed for features you use on our site.

If you are still looking for more information, please contact us through our contact page.