What Are Cookies
As is standard practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, 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 site's functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies...
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the site. We recommend that you leave cookies enabled.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent websites from using cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for instructions on how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
If you create an account, we will use cookies to manage the signup and login processes as well as general administration. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access account information while logged in.
This site offers e-commerce payments. Some cookies are essential to ensure that your order processes correctly.
Third Party Cookies
In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web. This helps 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.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features cookies may be used to ensure you receive a consistent user experience and that we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
Because we sell products through our web store, it is important for us to understand a few things. E.g. how many of our visitors actually make a purchase. This is the kind of data these cookies will track. Collecting this type of information is important to you as well since it means that we can accurately make business decisions related to product costs. With this data we can ensure our product is competitively priced.
The Google AdSense service we use to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is displayed in your browser.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
In some cases, we may provide you with custom content based off the information you have provided us about yourself, either directly or indirectly. These types of cookies allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.
Several partners advertise on our behalf. Affiliate tracking cookies allow us to see if our customers have come to our site from one of our partner sites. This gives us the ability to credit them appropriately, and where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonuses that they may offer you for making a purchase.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this website. These features allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites including Facebook and Twitter will set cookies through our website which may be used to enhance your profile (on their site) or contribute to the data they collect.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned if you aren't sure if you need cookies or not, it's usually safer to leave them enabled. However, if you're still looking for more information, feel free to contact us.