Cookie Policy

This page outlines this websites cookie policy as well as ways you can opt-out of different services.

As well as being able to opt in and out of the cookies used on this website this page is also to explain how and why these cookies are used in the first place.

Cookie Control Settings

[cookie-control]

Google Analytics Opt Out (You currently need to opt out of google analytics separately)

What are cookies?

Cookies a basically a small file which is stored on your computer. Some are essential for a website to work correctly, while others are not strictly necessary but are usually used to make your browsing more convenient.

As you will have seen when you first used the website there is a pop up notifying you about the cookies on this website. This also blocks unnecessary cookies until you agree. You may also see that parts of the websites do not work until you have agreed and refreshed the page. This is due to the need of cookies for this part of the website to work.

What cookies are used by this website?

Cookies used on this website:

WordPress
[table id=1 /]

If you comment on a article

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

WordPress Plugins

This website uses wordpress plugins. The uses of each plugin can vary from helping to create a page layout to security measures.

Most of these plugins do not need to collect any type of data to work.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages and articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

YouTube

Embedded YouTube videos are set with the ‘Privacy Enhancement Settings’ turned ON. According to YouTube, this means that their cookies will not be activated until you watch the video (meaning they aren’t just simply loaded when there is a page with an embedded video on it).

[table id=2 /]

Youtube is part of Google so please refer to their privacy and cookie policy for further details.

Google Analytics

This is used to understand how many people visit the site and what pages are the most useful and interesting to you. This is done by using anonymous data so the best parts of the website are highlighted. This means more of this content can be focused on as it is more useful to you and other readers.

[table id=4 /]

If you wish to opt out of google analytics then please follow this link.

What about external links from this website?

There are links to external websites from this website. These are usually in the articles and link to relevant information on another website. You will need to review their privacy and cookie policies separately to this one.

Block and control cookies for all websites from your browser

You can also block and control cookies for all websites from your browser, a good starting point to learn how to do this can be found HERE (this website has no affiliation with this website and you will need to review their privacy and cookie policy separately like all external links from this site).