What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are small files saved on your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they store, how they 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 “undo” certain elements of the site’s functionality.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a number 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 this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Cookies we set

Cookies related to newsletters or e-mail: This site offers newsletter or e-mail subscription services and cookies may be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only to subscribed/unsubscribed users;

Survey-Related Cookies: From time to time, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, useful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after you change pages;

Forms-related cookies: When you submit data through a form such as those found on the contact page or comment forms, cookies may be set to save your user details for future correspondence;

Site preferences cookies: 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. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that has been affected by your preferences.

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 may encounter through this website:

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us understand how the site is used and ways we can improve the experience. These cookies may look for things like how much time you spend on the site and the pages you visit so that we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page;

Third-party analytics are used to research and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may look for things like the time you spend on the site or the pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the site for you;

Periodically, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site appears. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site, whilst understanding which optimisations our users appreciate most;

As we sell products, it is important that we understand statistics about how many visitors to our website actually purchase, and therefore this is the type of data these cookies will look for. This is important to you as it means we can accurately make business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

More information

Hopefully that’s clear, and as mentioned previously, if there’s something you’re not sure whether you need or not, it’s generally safer to leave cookies active in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our site.

This policy is effective from 2023.