Cookie Usage
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
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- 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 data to advertising networks
- 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. A list of the cookies used by this site can be found at the bottom of this page.
More About Our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our Own Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering your search settings
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
- 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 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:
- YouTube
- Etsy
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 the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
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.
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:
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting 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 you 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 antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.
Cookie List
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai1ec_caledar_url | session | Session | Website: The calendar and events functionality of this website is provided by the All-In-One Event Calendar WordPress plugin from Time.ly |
| APISID | third party | 2 Years | Google: Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps |
| DSID | third party | 2 Weeks | DoubleClick via YouTube Videos: Tracking cookie used by Google to improve your online experience, including the display of more relevant ads |
| fr | third party | 3 Months | Facebook: We use the Facebook Like button to integrate our website with our page on Facebook.com - a common feature of websites these days. In doing so this causes some cookies to be created by Facebook that detect the number of "likes" and whether you are logged into Facebook or not. You should refer to Facebook's cookie policy here. |
| gglcptch_hide_banner_on_plugin_page | persistent | 1 Month | Website: Internal operation of framework |
| HSID | third party | 2 Years | Google: Various unique identifiers, as well as login information that may relate to a Google account. |
| IDE | third party | 1 Year | DoubleClick via YouTube Videos: Tracking cookie used by Google to improve your online experience, including the display of more relevant ads |
| LOGIN_INFO | third party | 2 Years | YouTube Videos: This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. |
| nextId | third party | Session | YouTube Videos: This cookie stores information about the video to be shown after current video |
| NID | third party | 6 Months | Google: unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language |
| PHPSESSID | session | Session | Website: To identify your unique session on the website |
| PREF | third party | 8 Months | YouTube Videos: This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. |
| requests | third party | Session | YouTube Videos: Pending |
| SAPISID | third party | 2 Years | Google: information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users. |
| SESS | session | Session | Website: To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. |
| SID | third party | 2 Years | Google: Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps |
| SIDCC | third party | 3 Months | Google: information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users. |
| SSID | third party | 2 Years | Google: Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps |
| testpopup | persistent | 6 Days | Website: Used by this website for displaying lightbox images |
| viewed_cookie_policy | persistent | 1 Year | Website: This cookie is used by our cookie notification. If you have accepted our cookie information the site will store this cookied on your computer so you don’t keep seeing the message. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | third party | 6 Months | YouTube Videos: A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[UID] | session | Session | Website: Essential WordPress session management cookies for logged in users. |
| wordpress_sec_[UID] | session | Session | Website: Essential WordPress session management cookies for logged in users. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | session | Session | Website: This cookie is used by WordPress to test that cookies are enabled on your browser |
| wp-settings-1 | persistent | 1 Year | Website: Wordpress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
| wp-settings-time-1 | persistent | 1 Year | Website: Wordpress sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
| YSC | third party | Session | YouTube Videos: This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video |