What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored by your web browser as you use the web. They are designed to hold a tiny amount of data to allow websites to do things like remembering your settings, whether you have previously registered your details or not or whether you have visited the site before.

This website makes use of cookies within the following categories – Essential and Performance. 

Product Purchasing

These essential cookies are used during our purchasing process in order to remember items in a shopping cart and/or keep a user logged in. These are considered essential cookies to the functioning and experience of the website. Opting out of these cookies will not allow the site to determine whether or not you are logged in or if the purchase is genuine. To understand more about the information that is gathered and how it is processed, please read our Privacy Policy.

Product Evaluation, Product Registration and Content Downloads Forms

These cookies are essential to our downloads, product evaluation and product registration forms. They allow the site to remember that you have previously registered your details when browsing around the site, such as authentication. Opting out of these cookies will not allow the site to determine whether or not you are logged in or if the form submission is genuine. To understand more about the information that is gathered and how it is processed, please read our Privacy Policy.

LiveChat Support

These cookies are essential to every function of LiveChat Support. Users won’t see the live chat button if they don’t opt in to essential cookies as it will disable the function. LiveChat cookies collect minimal information that is necessary for the widget to work and support the user throughout the process. This includes identifying users within the chat system and preventing unauthorised access.  To understand more about the information that is gathered and how it is processed, please read our Privacy Policy.

Website Analytics

In common with most websites, we use a system to measure the amount of traffic to our site. For this we use the cookies from Google Analytics (GA). GA is a third-party web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. GA customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website and use this information to help us improve the site in a variety of ways.

GA uses first-party performance cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

Social Media Sharing

On some pages throughout the website, you will find buttons that allow you to share items of interest to different social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter/X. The cookies that are generated by sharing content to the various social media platforms are not within our control. Please refer to the respective social media platform’s privacy policies for how their cookies work.

Advertising Cookies

These third party (advertising networks) cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to target the user with advertising they believe will be relevant to them. They are used to remember the websites that your visit and the information is shared with other parties such as advertisers.

If you want to learn more about what targeting and advertising cookies are on your device (whether or not related to us) and how to disable them you can do so here.

How can I manage my cookies in my browser settings?

You have several options to allow you to block or delete cookies that are created by this and other websites. However, it is important to note that choosing to opt out of essential cookies can impact your experience across the website. All major browsers allow you to manage the cookies that they accept and store. To find out how to use these options please follow the appropriate link for you browser:

• Apple Safari
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox

Additional information about the technical aspects of cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.