Cookie Policy
Understanding Our Cookie Usage: Your Guide to Our Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy is for visitors to our website and sets out how we use cookies.
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
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
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
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.
These cookies are only applicable if you are a logged-in user on the website.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
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wordpress_logged_in_(random letters and numbers) | The cookie indicates when the user has logged into the website | expires when you close your browser |
wordpress_sec_(random letters and numbers) | The cookie indicates when the user has logged into the website | expires when you close your browser |
wordpress_test_cookie | Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled | expires when you close your browser |
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or Google map. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
We use:
- Google reCAPTCHA – for spam prevention
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Name | Purpose | Expires |
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_GRECAPTCHA | Google reCAPTCHA to provide spam protection. | 6 months |
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here. ) 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.
Changes
We may make changes to this policy from time to time. If we change our Cookie Policy we will post the changes on this page. Please revisit the policy when you want to confirm how we use cookies.
This policy was last revised on September 5, 2023.