What are cookies?

 

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files that are downloaded to your computer, to enhance your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however this may downgrade or "break" certain elements of the functionality of the sites.

 

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP cookies .

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How We Use Cookies

 

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options to disable cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether or not you need them in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

 

Cookies deactivation

 

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser's Help for how to do this). Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in the deactivation of certain functions and features of this site as well. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

 

The cookies we set

 

• Account-related cookies: If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for the management of the registration process and general administration. These cookies will generally be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may linger afterward to remember your site preferences when you log out.

• Login Related Cookies: We use cookies when you log in so that we can remember this fact. This saves you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted areas and features when you log in.

• Cookies related to email newsletters: This site offers subscription services to newsletters or email, and cookies can be used to remember if you are already registered and if you want to show certain notifications that can only be valid for subscribed / unsubscribed users .

• Cookies related to order processing: This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it correctly.

• Survey-Related Cookies: From time to time we offer surveys and questionnaires to users to provide them with interesting information, useful tools, or to understand our user base more precisely. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change the page.

• Form Related Cookies: When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

• Site Preference Cookies: To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called every time you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

 

Third party cookies

 

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you can find through this site.

 

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web to help us understand how you use the site and the ways we can improve your experience. These cookies can track things like how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so that we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• Third party analytics are used to track and measure the use of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies can track things like how much time you spend on the site or the pages you visit, helping us understand how we can improve the site for you.

• From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies can be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site, while ensuring that we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.

• As we sell products, it is important for us to understand statistics on how many of our site visitors actually make a purchase and as such this is the type of data these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can make accurate business predictions that allow us to control our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

• The Google AdSense service that we use to serve ads uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads on the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown. For more information on Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

• We use advertisements to offset the costs of running this site and to provide funds for further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we serve you the most relevant advertisements whenever possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest to you.

• Various partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have visited the site through one of our partner sites so that we can properly credit them and, where appropriate, allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus they can. provide you to make a purchase.

• We also use social media buttons and / or plugins on this site that allow you to connect to your social network in various ways.

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More information

Hopefully that has cleared things up for you, and as mentioned above, if there's something you're not sure whether or not you need, it's generally safer to leave cookies enabled in case you interact with one of the features you use in our site.