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What are cookies?

To make this website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons in order to enable basic functionality around our website; some enable a personalized experience for visitors; while some are from selected third party services. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “share” or “comment” button on a post, for example).

What cookies do we use?

CookieTypeDurationDescription
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Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track our websites performance. Google Analytics uses Cookies to analyse user activity in order to improve the Website. For example, using Cookies we can look at aggregate patterns like product searches or store services that users perform. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and experience of the website.

Users who do not wish to share their data with Google Analytics have the option to opt out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics Javascript running on websites to prohibit sending information to Google Analytics.

To opt-out of Analytics – please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Page and install the add-on. You can find out more about the add-ons privacy policy and google analytics on the page.

Third Party

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos from youtube, images hosted on other websites, articles from other blogs, social media posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

Embedded content from other websites may use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content. Their own website privacy & cookie policies will apply in relation to your personal information, which may be different to our policies. You should always check the privacy & cookie policy of third party websites and App’s before using them.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and some functionalities may not work.