Privacy & Cookies policy

Privacy statement

We record visits to this website and log the following information for statistical purposes: the user's server or proxy address, the date/time/length of the visit, and the files requested. The information is used to analyze our server traffic. No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except where authorized by law. For example in the event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency may exercise its legal authority to inspect the internet service provider's logs. If you send us an email message or contact us via the contact form, we will record your contact details. This information will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it. We will not use your email for any other purpose and will not disclose it without your consent except where such use or disclosure is permitted under an exception provided in the Privacy Act. When users choose to join a mailing list their details are added to that specific mailing list and used for the stated purpose of that list only.

Personal information collection

We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. We use this information to provide the support that you have requested. Personal information collected on this Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized. We may use your personal information to provide you with important information about the product or service that you are using, including updates and notifications. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about new products and services. Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of our organization without your permission. We are committed to protecting and securing your personal information. We also welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement. All comments can be sent via the contact us form.

Use of cookies

Cookies and how they benefit You

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
- Save you having to log in every time you visit the site
- 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 like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
- 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 cookies from being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

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:
- Google - Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

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 they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called "analytics" programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, 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 instead of marketing spend.
We use:
- Google Analytics - Privacy Policy

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither we, advertisers nor our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accept privacy standards such as https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/iab-good-practice-principles
You can learn more about online advertising at https://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.
We use:
- DoubleClick - Privacy Policy owned by Google
- Setupad cookies - Privacy Policy owned by Setupad and its advertising partners

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies.
Learn how here:
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Google Chrome for Android
- Explorer
- Safari
- Opera
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.