Cookies in use on this website
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 phone when you browse websites.
We use them to:
- make our website work as you would expect
- remember your settings during and between visits
- improve the speed/security of the site
- continuously improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
- collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission, in fact the only personal info we get from you is through our contact&submission forms and the guestbook (for which you need to agree with our terms&condition policy)
- collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- pass data to advertising networks
- pass personally identifiable data to third parties (the third part cookies in use on this website collect anonymous info)
Granting us permission to use cookies
If your browser is adjusted to accept cookies we take your use of our website to mean that you are fine with our cookie policy. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so might mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of text that websites send to the browser and is stored on the user’s terminal, which may be a personal computer, a mobile phone, a tablet, etc. These files allow the website to remember information about your visit, such as language and preferred options, which can make your next visit easier and make the site more useful for you.
Types of cookies used
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site includes the following services which use cookies:
- Google – Privacy Policy
- Statcounter – Privacy Policy
- Zeemaps – Privacy Policy
- Wordfence – WordPress plugin
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
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 if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine).
- Statcounter – Privacy Policy
- Wordfence – WordPress Plugin
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 our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.