Cookie Policy 

This website may gather information about your general internet use by using cookies in order to help you personalise your online experience. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Essential cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access my website or take certain actions on my website. Non-essential cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to me doing so. You consent to me placing non-essential cookies on your computer or device by continuing to use my website with your browser settings set to accept cookies.

Cookies may be either persistent cookies or session cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that I store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies can be used for the following purposes:
(a) authentication – to identify you when you visit a website and as you navigate a website;

(b) status – to help determine if you are logged into a website;

(c) personalisation- to store information about your preferences and to personalise a website for you;

(d) security – as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect websites and services generally;

(e) analysis – to analyse the use and performance of a website and services; and

(f) cookie consent- to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally. Some service providers also use cookies, and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit my website.  These are the third-party service providers that store cookies when you visit our website:

(a) I use Google Analytics to analyse the use of my website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies.  The information gathered relating to my website is used to create reports about the use of the website.

Google’s Privacy Policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer.

If you do not know how to do this, the links below contain information about how to change your browser settings in some of the most commonly used web browsers:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Apple Safari

For further information on how I handle personal information please refer to my Privacy Policy