Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they Benefit You

If you do not agree with our policy below, you must not use this site and remove our cookie from your web browser.
See the bottom of this page for useful links on how to delete cookies and change you preferences in your browser.

Our website uses cookies; as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like LinkedIn
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies 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 we use below

Granting us 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 we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Remembering your search settings

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

By entering data into our enquiry form, you are agreeing to let us use this information. Mostly for replying to your enquiry, but we may keep it on record so that if you get back to us at a later date, we have a record of you. Your browser may remember data you have input into our enquiry form and automatically enter it. Unless you ‘submit’ this information to us, we have no access to it. You are able to change these settings within your browser to prevent it from remembering form data.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily Like or share our content on the likes of Google+ and LinkedIN, we have included sharing buttons on our site.

You will most likely be asked to sign into the social network when you click on a button on our website. This will take you to an external page, we have no access to personal details and settings on these sites.

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

We have recently updated our website to a different host and have changed its design. We use Google Analytics to see what sort of traffic comes through our website and it helps us to understand how we could improve our site.

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our 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 us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing.

We use: Google Analytics.

The sort of information collected by Google Analytics and how we use this information is as follows:

• Language
• Country & City – this is identifiable by the first few digits in your IP address, much like the country code and area code present in landline telephone numbers. Location information is not available for us to trace beyond ‘city’ (but we wouldn’t need or use that information, anyway).
• Browser and version – Some websites look better in different web browsers (e.g. IE, Chrome, Firefox etc), we can use this information to improve how our website looks in different browsers, focusing on those with the highest use.
• Screen Resolution – this helps us to design our website so that it looks best for most users.
• Computer operating system and ISP – Google Analytics collects this information by default, but we do not use it and have no need for it.
• Returning or new visitor – This helps us see whether people frequent our site, or if it’s all new traffic. If you clear your cookie data and revisit a website, that website will assume you’re a new visitor.
• Device – If you are accessing from a mobile device, Google Analytics will list what you are viewing from. As with browsers, some sites could look better on different devices. This snippet of information lets us best decide how to design a mobile version of the website in the future.

If you wish to take a closer look at what Google Analytics does, you could try this page: Cookies and Google Analytics

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 ours 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 so called “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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