How I use cookies on my website
Cookies are small text files that can be written and read by websites and stored by the browser on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
My website uses cookies which are essential to the operation of the site, and which store the basic preferences of the user (e.g. the user’s choice whether or not to accept cookies).
I may also use cookies to track the use of my websites (e.g. to identify which pages are being used). This can include the use of Google Analytics and other third party services. This helps me analyse data about webpage traffic and improve my website in order to tailor them to customer needs. I only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
I may also use third party cookies to help present visitors with more targeted information using services such as Facebook advertising.
Overall, cookies help to provide you with a better website and service by enabling me to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives me access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with me.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies using the slide-up panel at the bottom of my website. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the Cookies link in the footer which will redisplay the slide-up panel.