This page explains our approach to cookies and privacy on our website and how it affects you.
Cookies are short reports that are sent and stored on the hard drive of the user's computer through your browser when it connects to a web page. Cookies can be used to collect and store user data while connected to provide you the requested services and sometimes tend not to keep.
We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.
Short version
- We collect anonymous statistics about your visit, like which of our pages you viewed.
- Some 3rd parties like Facebook and other social networks know you visited this website, if you use their services. We can’t control them but we don’t believe this knowledge poses any threat to you.
- If you sign up with us we take great care to keep your information safe and we’ll never share it with others without your express permission.
- We never share your data with 3rd parties except to help us deliver our own services.
These are just the key points. If you need detail, keep reading.
Measuring our visitors
We measure visitors to our website using Google Analytics. This records what pages you view within our site, how you arrived at our site and some basic information about your computer. All of that information is anonymous – so we don’t know who you are; just that somebody visited our site.
The information we collect from analytics helps us understand what parts of our sites are doing well, how people arrive at our site and so on. Like most websites, we use this information to make our website better.
You can learn more about Google Analytics or opt out if you wish.
Facebook and other social networks
These services provide social buttons and similar features which we use on our website – such as the “Like” button.
To do so we embed code that they provide and we do not control ourselves. To function their buttons generally know if you’re logged in; for example Facebook use this to say “x of your friends like this”. We do not have any access to that information, nor can we control how those networks use it.
Social networks therefore could know that you’re viewing this website, if you use their services (that isn’t to say they do, but their policies may change).
Advertising
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website. The DoubleClick cookie is used by Google in the ads served on our website, for displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a partner's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Updates to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time, particularly as technology changes. You can always check this page for the latest version.
Please note
You can enable or disable cookies by following the instructions of your browser.