•A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

•Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

•We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

•Cookies are either:

– Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or

– Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

•Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

– Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

– Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.

– Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.

– Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
– First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title                                                                                                         Purpose
Cookie Name

Cloudflare.com _cf_bm _et_bloom_optin_optin_1_125468822129870270_imp	This cookie is essential for our site. It is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. This cookie supports the functionality of the bloom pop-up plug-in opt-in banner.
Cookieyes Cookieyes-*	This cookie is essential for our site. CookieYes sets this cookie for consent solution management. It expires after 1yr.
WordPress _wpfuuid	This cookie is essential for out site. It is used by the WPForms WordPress plugin. The cookie is used to allows the paid version of the plugin to connect entries by the same user and is used for some additional features like the Form Abandonment addon. It expires after 1yr1month4days.
Universal Analytics (Google) _ga_* _ga	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
YouTube cookies _Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN _Secure-YND YSC VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* ytib::LAST_RESULT-ENTRY _KEY USER_PRIVACY_METADATA	_Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN cookie is set to manage feature rollout and experimentation. It helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users as part of testing and staged rollouts, ensuring consistent experience for a given user during an experiment. _Secure-YND cookie is used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie is set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. USER_PRIVACY_METADATA cookie is essential for our site. YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain.   _Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN – * Expires after 6 months _Secure-YND – * expires after 6 months YSC – * expires at the end of your session VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – *expires after 6 months ytib::LAST_RESULT-ENTRY_KEY – never expires USER_PRIVACY_METADATA – never expires
Sourcebuster sbjs_migrations sbjs_current_add sbjs_first_add sbjs_current sbjs_first sbjs_udata sbjs_session	Sourcebuster sets these cookies to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. These cookies expires at the end of your session, except for sbjs_session which expires after 1 hour.
Jetpack cookies tk_or tk_lr tk_r3d tk_ai   tk_tc	tk_or and tk_lr are referral cookies on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack. Expires after 1year1month4days and 1 yr. tk_r3d is a cookie to collect internal metrics for user activity and improve user experience. Expires after 3 days. JetPack sets tk_ai cookie to store a randomly-generated anonymous ID used only within the admin area and for general analytics tracking. Expires after 1 yr JetPack sets tk_tc cookie to record details on how users use the website. Expires at the end of your session.

 

You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by BY CLICKING ON THE COOKIE ICON AND ADJUSTING THE SLIDERS TO ‘OFF’. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.

You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after a maximum of 1 year, 1month and 4 days as specified in the table above. .

 

If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at [email protected].