Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse the internet. My website uses cookies (as almost all modern websites do), to help provide you with the best possible experience.
Cookies Help Me:
- Make my 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
- Continuously improve my website for you
- Make my marketing more efficient
I 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 Me Permission To Use Cookies
By adjusting your web browser (the software that you are using to view this website) to accept cookies, I take this (along with your continued use of my website) as confirmation that you are happy for me to use cookies in the way that I do. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from my site, you can learn how to do this below. In doing so however, it is likely that my website will not work as you would expect.
More About The Cookies I Use
My Own Cookies
I use cookies to make my website work including:
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to my site
- Remembering if I have already asked you certain questions
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set, other than to not use my website.
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily like or share my content with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, I have included sharing buttons on my site.
Cookies are set by:
- SoundCloud
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.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
I use cookies to compile visitor statistics, such as how many people have visited my website, what type of technology they are using, how long they spend on the site, and what pages they look at etc. This helps me to continuously improve my website. These so called ‘analytics programs’ also tell me how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine), and whether they have been here before, helping me to put more money into developing my services for you, instead of marketing spend.
I use:
- Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser’s settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of my website (along with a large proportion of the rest of the internet), as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your 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.