As is standard practice on almost all professional websites, this website uses cookies—small files downloaded to your computer—to improve your experience. This page explains what information they collect, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also explain how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, although doing so may downgrade or ‘break’ certain website features.

We use cookies for several reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options to disable cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. We recommend that you allow all cookies if you are unsure whether you need them or not, provided they are used to deliver a service that you use.

You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser's Help for instructions on how to do this). Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally disable certain features and functionality of this website. Therefore, we recommend that you do not disable cookies.

• Account-related cookiesIf you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the registration process and general administration. These cookies will generally be deleted when you log out of the system, however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when you log out.
• Login-related cookiesWe use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this action. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are normally removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
• Email newsletter-related cookiesThis site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether certain notifications valid only for subscribed / non-subscribed users should be displayed.
• Order processing-related cookiesThis site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages, so that we can process it properly.
• Survey-related cookiesPeriodically, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, useful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after changing pages.
• Form-related cookiesWhen you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or in comment forms, cookies may be set to remember user details for future correspondence.
• Site preference cookiesTo provide a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences on how this site operates when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you may find through this website.

• This website uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widely used and trusted analytics solutions on the Web, to help us understand how you use the website and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track items such as how much time you spend on the website and the pages you visit, so that we can continue producing engaging content.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official Google Analytics page.

• Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the use of this website, so that we can continue producing engaging content. These cookies may track items such as the time you spend on the website or the pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the website for you.
• Periodically, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the website appears. While we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the website, while we understand which optimizations our users appreciate most.
• As we sell products, it is important for us to understand the statistics on how many visitors to our website actually make a purchase and, therefore, this is the type of data these cookies will track. This is important for you, as it means we can make accurate business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising costs and products to ensure the best possible price.

We hope this clarifies things and, as mentioned earlier, if there is anything you are unsure about whether you need or not, it is generally safer to leave cookies enabled, in case you interact with one of the features you use on our website.

This policy is effective from 29 October 2022 10:31