Cookie Policy
Last updated: May 24, 2018
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
We use 4 group of cookies: Google Analytics cookies, WooCommerce cookies, Cookie Consent cookie, and Google Maps cookies.
1. Google Analytics
The cookies used are: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Their expiration is 2 years, 30 minutes, when you close your browser and 6 months respectively.
2. WooCommerce
To keep track of cart data, WooCommerce makes use of 3 cookies: woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart, wp_woocommerce_session_. The first two cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. The final cookie contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies. They all expire when you close your browser.
3. Cookie Consent
This cookie records that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. It is used to stop the Cookie notification displaying each time a new session is opened. It expires after 1 year.
4. Google Maps
The cookies used are: nid, pref, khcookie. They allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have se when you view maps. They expire after 6 months, 2 years and when you close your browser, respectively.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.