Cookie Policy
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.
Our cookies help us:
Make our website work as you’d expect
Remember your settings during and between visits
Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
Improve the speed/security of the site
Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook
Continuously improve our website for you
Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the products we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but information that we and 3rd parties store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. See how we manage your privacy and personal data via our privacy policy
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
Our site requires certain cookies to make it function correctly. We have outlined the ways in which cookies are used to allow you to make an informed decision about their use.
Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so may mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
What cookies do we use?
Strictly necessary cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Remembering your search settings
Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey)
There is no way to prevent these necessary cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party cookies for enhanced content
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
YouTube (Privacy Policy) allows us to embed videos on our site.
Issu (Privacy Policy) allows users to view additional content stored externally from our website.
URL FOR PRIVCY POLICY:https://issuu.com/legal/privacy
CloudIQ allows us to send you reminders about items you have left in your shopping cart, and offer special discounts not offered freely on our website.
URL FOR PRIVACY POLICY:https://www.cloudiq.com/privacy-policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Social website cookies
So you can easily “Like” or “Share” our content on social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
AddThis (Privacy Policy) provide us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package
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.
Third party cookies for analytics
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(s) they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us 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.
We use:
Google Analytics (Privacy Policy) enables us to compile visitor statistics and detect and repair problems with our website.
Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our websites and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. We undertake this activity on the basis of your consent, which we request on their behalf through the Consent Management Platform (“CMP”) pop-up which is displayed when you first visit our sites.The CMP contains a list of our third party partners.
Turning cookies off
You can change your cookie preferences by clicking on the individual cookie section and clicking ‘Turned off’ or ‘turned off’.
To control cookies within your browser you can adjust 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.
It may be that your 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. Learn more about managing cookies with anti-spyware software.
