Cookies
My site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of my site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that I store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. I use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of my site.
- Analytical/performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around my site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way my site works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to my site. This enables us to personalise my content for you and remember your preferences.
Advertising cookies
I work with third-parties such as Google, Bing, Pinterest and Facebook (and Facebook owned channels like Instagram, Messenger and Audience Network) to provide targeted adverts. With Facebook and Pinterest, I use a Pixel to collect anonymous information about what adverts you have clicked on. The use of these tools can tell me when and how you came to visit my website, the pages that you visited and forms you completed or products you went on to buy. This information will be used to make advertising more relevant to your interests and keep you up to date with news of products and services, including shop events, offers and promotions.
Google Analytics Cookies
I use a programme called Google Analytics, which in turn uses cookies to help us find out how many people visit my site, which pages and parts are most popular, how long people spend in each area and what information people are searching for. All this insight helps me to understand how I can improve my site.
You can find out more about Google Analytics here https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
If you don’t want me to use cookies in your web browser, you can remove them from your computer or change your browser settings so that it either blocks cookies altogether or asks you if you’d like to accept them from some websites. Some of my cookies are essential for my site to work properly.
The internet industry body, the Internet Advertising Bureau, has set up a website to provide information and advice on cookies: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/. Another source which gives information about how to delete and control cookies is http://www.aboutcookies.org/.
August 2021