How This Site Uses Cookies
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our web site uses cookies, as almost all web sites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse web sites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our web site work as you'd expect
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our web site 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
- Collect any sensitive information
- 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 web site (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our web site, 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
- Web site Function Cookies - Our own cookies We use cookies to make our web site work including:
- Remembering you have logged into our web subsyetms (blog, eLearning, online shop). There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
- Social Web site Cookies - So you can easily Like or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. Cookies are set by:
- Social networking 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.
- Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies - We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our web site, 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 web site These so called "analytics" programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, 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 spend. We use:
- Google Analytics to record summary statistics. Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on thsi site
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We do not collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
- Google Analytics to record summary statistics. Google Analytics stores information about:
- Advertising Cookies - Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards.
You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer. We use:- Google Adsense
Turning Cookies Off You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's web sites as cookies are a standard part of most modern web sites.
It may be that you 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.
