What Are Cookies

This site uses cookies, which are tiny, harmless files downloaded to your computer to improve your user experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of this site’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to a site. It is recommended that you leave all the cookies on if you are unsure whether you need them or not. This is particularly important if the cookies are used to provide a service you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can disable cookies from your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out. However, in some cases, they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember it, and you don’t have to log in every single time you visit a new page on our website. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities, and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. We set cookies to remember your preferences and use them to fine-tune your experience whenever you interact with a page on our website.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit to continue producing engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the site is delivered. While testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the site and help us understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.

As we sell products, it’s important for us to understand how many of our site visitors actually make a purchase, and as such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important as it helps us make accurate business predictions to monitor our advertising and product costs and ensure the best possible price.

The Google AdSense service we use to serve ads uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

We use ads to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that only the most relevant ads are served to you by anonymously tracking your interests.

In some cases, we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies help us provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.

Several partners advertise on our behalf, and affiliate tracking cookies let us see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites. This way, we can credit them appropriately and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus to you for making a purchase.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that let you connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, etc., set cookies through our site. These cookies may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.