Cookie Policy

Effective July 25, 2024

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

3. Cookies used on our website

  • Account-Related Cookies: If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however, in some cases, they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences when logged out.
  • Login-Related Cookies: We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. 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 restricted features and areas when logged in.
  • Orders Processing Related Cookies: 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 properly.
  • Forms-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 Preferences Cookies: In order 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 whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

4. Third-Party Cookies

We use cookies from select third parties who are essential to the functionality of our services

  • CloudFlare: CloudFlare provides content delivery network services, internet security, and distributed domain name server services. CloudFlare cookies are used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This helps ensure the safety and swift loading of our site (privacy policy).
  • Stripe: Stripe offers payment processing services for online businesses. Stripe uses cookies to remember your payment information and process payments securely as you interact with our checkout or payment pages (privacy policy).
  • hCaptcha: hCaptcha is used to prevent fraud and abuse on our website by distinguishing between humans and automated agents. hCaptcha cookies are essential for maintaining the integrity of our services and ensuring that interactions are secure and authentic (privacy policy).
These are the only third-party cookies used on our website, and they are deployed selectively on pages that require their specific functionalities. This targeted approach enhances site security and functionality without compromising your overall privacy.

5. No Tracking Technologies or Targeted Advertising

Our website does not use any other tracking technologies such as web beacons, Flash cookies, or local shared objects. Additionally, we do not engage in targeted advertising nor do we employ third-party analytics. Briefly:

  • Web Beacons: Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as pixel tags, 1x1 GIFs, or clear GIFs) are not used on our site.
  • Flash Cookies: We do not use Local Shared Objects such as Flash cookies and Silverlight to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our site to personalize your visit.
  • Targeted Advertising: We do not allow advertisers or other third parties to collect information about your activities on our website, nor do we share information with them.

6. Controlling cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your browser preferences. Essential cookies should not be rejected/removed as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

7. More information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies please contact us