Cookies Policy
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies. These are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. The page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We also share how to prevent these cookies from being stored. This may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality. For more general information see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookie.
How We Use Cookies
We use them for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately there is no standard options for shutting them down without completely disabling this websites functionality. If you are not sure it’s recommended, you leave all cookies on.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser “help” for how to do this). Be aware that disabling them will affect the functionality of this website. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain website functionality and features. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable any cookie.
Learn how to manage cookies on your web browser by following the browser cookie guide.
Cookies We Set
Account related cookies
If you create an account on this website, cookies are used to manage the signup process & general administration. These will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your website preferences.
Logging in
Our cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
Email newsletters
This site offers newsletter, email subscription and text & sms services that may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which are only valid to subscribed or unsubscribed users.
Website preferences
To provide you with a great experience, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when in use. In order to remember your preferences we set cookies so that this information can be called when you interact with this website.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use a cookie provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
These sites use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web. This helps us understand how you use the website and ways that we can improve your experience.
It may track; how long you spend on the website or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve this website experience for you. For more information on Google Analytics, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this website so that we can continue to provide engaging content. These may track; how long you spend on the website or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve this website experience for you.
Also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. To work the following social media sites: TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud, Google, Pinterest and YouTube, Amazon need to be on. These will set through our website which may be used to enhance your experience and profile on their site. They also contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy or cookie policies.
Twitter place cookies which allow users of this website, who have already logged into Twitter, to quickly share information via the Twitter social network without having to log into Twitter again. For more information refer to https://twitter.com/privacy
Facebook place cookies which allow users of this website, who have already logged into Facebook, to quickly share information via the Facebook social network without having to log into Facebook again.
They uses these cookies to make the site easier to use, to personalize the user experience, to improve the ads that you see and to protect you from malicious activity. For further information visit http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Disqus
Disqus place cookies which allow users of this website, who have already logged, to quickly share information via any given social network without having to login again. For more info see http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/topics/215159-terms-and-policies/articles
Share Buttons
Sometimes carry embedded “Like” and “Share” buttons to enable users of the Website to easily share articles through a number of popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
Embede Videos
And sometimes embed content from websites such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Instagram, Facebook or Tiktok. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from these websites you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
Advertisers
Third-party advertisers on the website may use cookies and other technologies in their advertisements for statistical purposes; we have no control over cookies placed on the website by third parties.
URL Shorteners
This website shortens links to online stores like the iTunes Music Store using the URL shortener services. URL shorteners provide us with anonymized, aggregated statistics relating to use of a shortened URL, for example by telling us how many times it has been clicked on. We does not have access to the IP address of your computer collected by these services when you use its service or any other identifiable information about you. Nor does this service have any access to data collected on the website.
More Information
If there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled. Most cases it does interact with one of the features on this website. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Generator of the GDPR Cookie Policy. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us by visiting this general contact page on this website.