Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the relevant Data Protection Acts).
We may collect information about you for 2 reasons: firstly, to process payments if this is an option available online, and second, to provide you with the best possible service.
We will not e-mail you in the future unless you have given us your consent, either explicitly, or by opting in to an email list. We will give you the chance to refuse (or unsubscribe from) any marketing email from us in the future.
The type of information we may collect about you may include:
- your name
- address
- phone number
- email address
We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.
The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.
The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.
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 LinkedIn and Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
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
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.
More about our Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering if you have accepted our cookie policy
- Allowing you to add comments to our site if applicable
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. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
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:
- Facebook – Privacy Policy
- Twitter – Privacy Policy
- LinkedIn – Privacy Policy
- Google+ – Privacy Policy
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.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. The WordPress cookie plugin used on our site uses a cookie to remember whether you have accepted our cookies.
We use Google Analytics 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 is not 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. Google Analytics also tells us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (you can find out how to do that by searching on Google). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our 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.
You can read the full Cookie Policy here.
If you have any questions/comments about privacy, please contact us.