Cookie and Consent Policy
Our partners�use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.
How to change your mind about consent?
To change your consent please click here:
This will re-open the cookie consent dialog where you can choose whether to allow or decline cookies.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a tiny file that is downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience and to help websites to work. As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies. 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 sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see Cookies explained.
Third Party Services We Use
We use services provided by a number of trusted third parties, for advertising, analytics and other services. These trusted third parties may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping 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 Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.
Google Adsense
This site uses Google AdSense to provide relevant advertising on pages and this funds the website.
For more information on Google AdSense cookies see the Types of Cookies and Other Technolgies used by google.
For information on how Google uses information from sits or apps that use their services see: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Other Services
This section will be updated should any other services be engaged.
Why do we have a cookie policy?
The European Parliament brought in a law, commonly known as the EU Cookie Law or EU E-Privacy directive (and later the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)), that perhaps had the well intentioned aim of helping consumers make informed choices about what cookies they accept on their computer. What the law has accomplished is a lot of work for webmasters and a detrimental online experience - unless of course you happen to like sites giving you notifications about cookies and offers to read a plethora of cookie policies like this one.
If you would like to know more about the EU cookie law then we recommend that you read the article "Why the cookie law is total clownshoes".
Were it it not for the EU Cookie Law we would not set any cookies (beyond the third party cookies already mentioned). The EU Cookie Law indirectly requires us to - as there is no other practical mechanism to record that you have viewed the cookie consent prompt. (Once you have viewed and dismissed the cookie consent a cookie is used to record that you have done so, that way we can avoid showing you that annoying message the next time you open a page.) It is a legal obligation of all websites within the EU to ask for consent or to make you aware that they use cookies.
This policy was last updated March 2023, and is subject to occasionally reviewed and clarification.