Cookie policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title
Cookie Name

Purpose 

More information

-Google Analytics
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This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. (expires in 24 hours)

https://policies.google.com/privacy

-cookieconsent_status

This serves the purpose of confirming whether people have opted in or out of cookies on the site.

https://cookiedatabase.org/legal/privacy-statement-uk/

wordpress_test_cookie

Tests that the browser accepts cookies. (expires when the browser is closed or cookies are cleared).

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

Disqus (Big Heads Labs Inc.)

Disqus is a content commenting service provided by Big Heads Labs Inc.

Personal Data collected: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

Analytics

The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.

WordPress.com Stats (Automattic Inc.)

WordPress.com Stats is an analytics service provided by Automattic Inc.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

IP address data is anonymous by removing the last octet – click here for more information.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Mailing List or Newsletter

This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.

By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this website. Your email address may also be added to this list as a result of signing up to this website or after making a purchase. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via a link within the email.

Rafflecopter

Some events and competitions held on this website are created using Rafflecopter. When you enter a competition using the Rafflecopter widget, your data is processed in accordance with their privacy policy and terms.

Personal Data collected: Name and email address.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy

Affiliate Links

This Website uses affiliate links which link to external websites and applications. As such, this Website contains links to other websites, primarily utilising affiliate links, and therefore trackable cookies. This site and its owner are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Please refer to those sites’ privacy policies for their information.

rewardStyle (rewardStyle, Inc.)

rewardStyle provides sales and marketing services, operates online websites at https://www.rewardStyle.com and http://liketoknow.it. This Website uses affiliate links generated by rewardStyle to create curated, monetized content by the author.

Personal Data collected: Cookies.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Skimlinks (Skimbit Ltd.)

Skimlinks is a content-to-commerce platform, helping publishers monetize their editorial content. Skimlinks will convert some of the links from this Website into affiliate links which creates a tracking cookie.

Personal Data collected: Cookies.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Monday Ltd

Monday is a Work Operating System (Work OS) that powers teams to run projects and workflows with confidence. 

Business Data collected. 

Privacy Policy 

Clearpay Ltd

Clearpay is a service that allows us to offer our customers the ability to make purchases now and pay for them in four payments made every 2 weeks without any interest.

Privacy Policy

Pixel Your Site

Facebook Pixel plugin.

Privacy Policy

Apple Pay (Apple Inc.)

Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple Inc. that allows users to make payments in person, in iOS apps, and on the web using Safari. It is supported on the iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac

Privacy Policy

Shopify (Shopify Inc.)

Shopify is an e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems.

Privacy Policy

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.  https://cookiedatabase.org

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.