COOKIE POLICY Jan 2023
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to "remember" you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a "session cookie") or for multiple repeat visits (using a "persistent cookie"). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as "first party cookies"), or by other websites who serve up content on that site ("third party cookies").
How do We Use Cookies?
The cookies set by this website fall into the following categories.
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential to ensure that you can navigate and use all features of the site. This includes browsing pages, remembering your preferences, saving favourite images, secure registration, placing orders, and other essential features. These cookies don't gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the Internet.
Performance
These cookies allow the website to deliver a better browsing experience. They collect information about your website usage, such as the pages you visit, or if you experience any errors. These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you - all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how the website works.
Functionality
Functionality cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit. We use them for remembering settings you've applied, showing you when you're logged in to the website, saving your favourite images, and so on.
Targeting
Targeting cookies are linked to services provided by third parties. These include 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons used by services like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and others. The third-party provides these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.
Additionally, the website may use Google Analytics or StatCounter services to analyse the use of this website. These services generate statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. You can view privacy policies for Google Analytics or StatCounter on their respective websites.
Third Party/Embedded Content
This website may make use of different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), or embedded content from YouTube and Vimeo, or tracking services such as Google Analytics. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.
Controlling cookies
Visitors may wish to restrict the use of cookies, or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control cookie behaviour such as the length of time they are stored - either through built-in functionality or by utilizing third party plugins.
To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org. For more details on advertising cookies, and how to manage them, visit youronlinechoices.eu (EU based) or aboutads.info (US based).
It's important to note that restricting or disabling the use of cookies can limit the functionality of sites, or prevent them from working correctly at all.
Web beacons and other tracking technologies
Both websites and HTML e-mails may also contain other tracking technologies such as "web beacons". These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, the web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.