Some essential features of our website won’t work without cookies, but below you can turn on and off third party cookies for enhanced content, social media websites and analytics. The Cookie Policy below tells you more about these types of 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
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the products we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but information that we and third parties store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. See how we manage your privacy and personal data via our privacy policy
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
Our site requires certain cookies to make it function correctly. We have outlined the ways in which cookies are used to allow you to make an informed decision about their use.
Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so may mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
What cookies do we use?
Strictly necessary cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Allowing users to log in
- Allowing transactions to take place
- Remembering a user’s cookie preferences
There is no way to prevent these necessary cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party cookies for enhanced content
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- YouTube (Privacy Policy) allows us to embed videos on our site
- Vimeo (Privacy Policy) allows us to embed videos on our site
- Issuu (Privacy Policy) allows users to view additional content stored externally from our website
- Google Books (Privacy Policy) allows us to include book previews on product pages
- Google Fonts (Privacy Policy) allows us to use Google’s open source fonts on our site
- Google Maps (Privacy Policy) allows us to embed maps on our site
- Google reCAPTCHA (Privacy Policy) allows us to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on our website
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Third party cookies for social media websites
So you can easily “Like” or “Share” our content on social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
- AddThis (Privacy Policy) provide us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Third party cookies for analytics
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page(s) they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you.
We use:
- Google Analytics (Privacy Policy) enables us to compile visitor statistics and detect and repair problems with our website
- Google Ads (Privacy Policy) enables us to track when someone who’s clicked one of our ads comes to our website
Turning cookies off
You can change your cookie preferences by selecting the individual cookie section under Cookie Settings at the top of this page.
Please note: A user turning off cookies who has previously allowed them will need to clear/delete said cookies from their device manually via their browser settings if they wish for them to be removed. We are unable to remove these cookies, and by changing your options we can only disable the services that use them, rendering them inactive and also preventing further cookies being added to your device, we cannot remove those already there.