Privacy Statement and Privacy Policy
This website values its users and aims to be transparent with its use of information. Your privacy and trust are important. We are aware that you may want to know about data collection and the type of information which is visible whilst you use our website, along with how we collect such information and what happens after we collect it, as well as any third party usage.
By using our website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy document. Any information that may be collected from you whilst on this website will only be used lawfully and in accordance with the 1998 DPA, and other relevant legislation).
A - What Are The Types of Information That We May Typically Collect On This Site?
Personal Information:
We do not collect personal information nor do we collect financial information on this website.
Non-Personal Information:
Like most standard web site servers, we may automatically collect non-personal information from you, which is recognised automatically by our webserver IP logs and log files. This information may consist of generic non personal information such as your browser type, the website URL which you visited us from or where you linked to use from (e.g. Google.com), Country, Visit TimeFrame Duration, File type viewed on our site (html etc), URL(s) visited on this site, Operating system (Windows, Macintosh, Java etc), Browser (e.g. MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, Iphone PDA etc), Site connected from (e.g. Google search, Facebook, bookmark etc), your ISP, your operating system, and your Internet protocol (IP) Address. This non-personal information cannot be used to easily identify you and simply provides quantitive demographic overviews (e.g. of the most popular browser used on the site and a statistical percentage of usage). We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.
B - When would you disclose my information to third parties?
Our website is an information and commercial website, and as such we have advertisements running throughout the site. These third party companies are generally linked to through these banner ads and/or text links. The owners or operators will be able to access similar information to the non personal information that we list above, and may leave a cookie of their own, for example username@hostname. An example of this may be example the cookie name admin@altavistais showing that this cookie came from www.altavista.com and the current computer user was admin. More information on third parties can be found below in the F - Affiliates and Cookies Section.
This information, however, is not linked to any personally identifiable information. You can refuse to accept these cookies, simply by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
By choosing to do this, you may find that you are unable to access certain parts of their site. Unless you adjust your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you access our website.
C - Does your privacy policy apply when I access third party websites?
This Privacy Policy does not apply when you access third party websites. Our site contains links and ads to and from the websites affiliate partners and guest writers. If you choose to follow one of these links or link through one of these ads to any of their websites, the website you then arrive at will have their own privacy policies and as such we do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy policies which they may have. We have no control over how 3rdparties may use Personal Information that you may disclose. Therefore it is your responsibility to check and read these policies before you submit any personal data to these external third party websites.
D - What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files (gif or text etc) which are placed upon the hard drive of your computer, generally within the Temporary Internet Files Folder. Most sites now use cookies. This site may use these cookies to track your use of our site, by seeing which pages are visited and for how long etc in order to try and provide you with a more personalised user experience. More information on cookies can be found at - http://www.allaboutcookies.org/and www.aboutcookies.org.
E - What Cookies Do You Use And What Are The Cookie Names
The following cookies may typically be found when accessing our website:
Cookie Name | Cookie Description | More Information |
W3tc_referrer | WordPress W3 Total cache plugin, ensures speedier webpage loading. Cookie valid for a single session. | http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ |
__utma __utmb __utmc __utmz | Google provide us with visitor statistics. Google Analytics is used prodominantly for monitoring search queries, traffic levels, and referrer visits to this website, the pages viewed and if you are a return visitor. It can store IP address anonymously upon the Google servers in the USA. These cookies are set only when the user has given consent to the website for us to use cookies. | http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
UIDR UID __uset __stid | Social media cookies, also part of ComScore, tracking audience size. Cookie length 2 years. Cookie expires approx 4 hours. Cookie expires 1 year. | http://scorecardresearch.com/about.aspx |
Id _drt_ | Advertising cookies placed by Doubleclick/Google. More information can be found in their URLs --> | http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ |
X-LI-IDC | Social Media Cookie. Expires at the end of the session. | |
su_bc | Social media cookie which expires same day. | Http://www.badge.stumbleupon.com |
k | Twitter "tweet" button. Cookie expires after 7 days. | .r.twimg.com |
F- Affiliates and Cookies
If you visit one of our affiliate advertisers from our website and buy items, we may receive a small commission payment for doing so. The way this operates is that we place a small file, typically text or gif, which has our identifying details within it, so that the affiliate vender knows who referred you and who to reward with the payment. Affiliate companies which may run ads from time to time across our site include:
http://www.clickbank.com/customer_privacy.html
http://www.tradedoubler.com/uk-en/legal/privacy.html
http://www.clixgalore.com/privacy.asp
G - Don't Want Cookies or Web Beacons?
If you do not want cookies, and want to delete or to block our cookies, then you can do this by disabling cookies permanently in your browser. By doing this you may find that some websites do not work properly. You can find out more more information at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/and www.AboutCookies.organdhttp://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_other/how-to-view-browsed-cookies-in-ie6-ie7-ie8-ie9/c50bf1fc-9f45-4277-90d1-acbb152a5e49
Users may opt out of the use of the Google Dart cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.