Cookies in use on this site and how they benefit you

This website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
These cookies help:
  • Make this website work as you would expect
  • Improve the speed and security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve this website for you and make marketing more efficient
Cookies are not used to:
  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies used below.

Granting permission to use cookies

​If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, this and your continued use of this website, is taken to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from this site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that this site will not work as you would expect.
Website Function CookiesCookies are used to make this website work including:
  • Allowing you to add comments to the blog
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use this site.
Third party functionsThis site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. This site includes the following which use cookies: ​Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily "Like" or "Share" content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, sharing buttons have been included on this site.
Cookies are set by: 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.

Visitor Statistics Cookies

Cookies are used to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited this website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when this site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps to continuously improve this website. These "analytics" programs also tell how people have reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping to develop this site for you. ​Analytics Cookies used: Statcounter and Google Analytics.
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Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of this and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.
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