Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a tiny information file that is downloaded onto your computer, tablet or smartphone when you access a website.
What are cookies for?
Most websites use cookies because they streamline and enhance the browsing experience.
Cookies can:
Speed up and simplify the interaction between users and the website
Remember user preferences during and between visits
Provide essential functionality (e.g. a shopping bag if the website is an online shop)
Give the website owner useful user statistics to help them better understand their audience
Perform numerous other functions such as enhance security
Our use of cookies on this website
By accepting the cookie alert banner or using our website you consent to the use of the following cookies:
Squarespace cookies:
This website is built using Squarespace, who may use cookies and similar tracking technologies throughout their services for stability, security, functionality and performance. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use my site. Here is a list of cookies Squarespace uses.
Google Analytics:
Google Analytics is an analytics tool that helps website owners better understand how visitors engage with their websites. We use Google Analytics to provide us with information about how our website is used, such as how visitors navigate the site, and which pages are the most popular. The data gathered is anonymous and cannot be used to identify individual users.
If you would like prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics you can use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on tool. And here is the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
Third-party functionality:
Our site, like many, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.
Our site includes the following which use cookies:
Videos powered by YouTube (read about how Google uses cookies)
Videos powered by Vimeo (read about how Vimeo uses cookies)
Social website links. When you like, share, or click through to a social media profile cookies may be set by Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 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. Here are the cookie policies for: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
What we DON'T use cookies for
We don’t use cookies to gather personal data such as names or email addresses.
Only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a website, can be stored in a cookie.
Allowing a website to create a cookie does not give it, or any other website, access to the rest of your computer.
How to control your use of cookies
Most web browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer and Firefox etc. enable you to allow, delete, block and otherwise control cookies.
The Aboutcookies.org website is a useful resource on all things cookie-related and tells you how to control and delete cookies.
Read our Privacy Policy or go back home.