Cookie Policy



This Cookie Policy sets forth our policy with respect to information that is collected from users of and/or visitors (“you” or “your”) to our websites, applications or other services on which this Cookie Policy is posted (each such website, individually and collectively, the “Website”) through cookies, local shared objects and other mechanisms.

CONSENT:

THIS SITE USES ITS OWN AND THIRD PARTY COOKIES TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE SITE AND TO DISPLAY MORE PERSONALIZED AND RELEVANT ADVERTISING TO YOU BY ANALYSING YOUR BROWSING HABITS. BY CLICKING THROUGH THE COOKIE BANNER THAT APPEARED WHEN YOU FIRST VISITED OUR SITE YOU AGREE TO THE USE OF COOKIES AND TECHNOLOGIES, IN LINE WITH YOUR CURRENT COOKIE SETTINGS AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND THIS COOKIE POLICY.


What are Cookies?

A cookie is a simple small file is sent by accessing pages of this website [and / or Flash applications] and stored by your browser on your hard drive from your computer. The information stored therein can be returned to our servers at a subsequent visit.

Anonymous tracking software

We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google. This service gathers anonymous data regarding how people use our site and then provide us with visitor statistics, details of page views, etc. We use this data to help optimise our site for those of you that use it. If this makes you feel uncomfortable, you can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics here.

Website widgets

To deliver a content-rich site, and one that incorporates social functionality, we have several widgets that operate on the site – this can be anything from Twitter buttons to the software that powers blog comments. Collectively they make our website more interesting, but most of them use cookies as part of their operation. Here is a list of the third-parties tracking data on our site via cookies:

  • YouTube
  • Vimeo
  • GooglePlus
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

What do we use these technologies for?

We use these technologies for the following reasons:

  • 1. Essential (strictly necessary)
    We use these technologies in a way that is essential for us to provide to you a service or feature that you have requested. For example, we may use cookies to remember you when you return to the Website, and determine where to route your Web site traffic to effectively distribute the workload across numerous computers. We may also use them to remember the contents of your shopping cart.
  • 2. Performance/Analytics
    We use these technologies to monitor and analyze how you use our Website and emails. For example, we may place cookies that allow us (i) to measure the time of your requests to our servers and our responses, (ii) to test new features, (iii) to record statistics about site usage, (iv) to track your activities on our Website and emails, and (v) to track the places from which you come to our Website.
  • 3. Social Media
    Our Website contains integrations with social media platforms (including, for example, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest), which enable those platforms to place cookies, tags and local shared objects on your browser, computer or device. You may be able to adjust the settings in your accounts on third-party social media platforms to control some of the targeted content you may see on those sites.
  • 4. Tracking Lead Conversions
    We use these technologies to track when you have made a purchase after following a link to our Website from another online location, so that we can compensate the other party for sending us your business.
  • 5. Advertising
    We use these technologies for us and other companies to deliver advertisements to you both on our Website and elsewhere online. By using these technologies we hope to better tailor these advertisements to your interests based on your online activities. Sometimes this is called online behavioral or interest-based advertising. As of the date hereof, we (or our service providers) use technologies from Sociomantic, and Google for such purposes.

What if you don’t want any cookies?

We don’t offer a cookie-free version of our site. You can, of course, set your browser to not accept cookies, but this will hinder core functionality of our site and many others. You can remove any cookies we have already put on your machine within your browser settings, or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Delete, in many cases.

If you have any views on the cookies we are using, please contact us