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Privacy Policy

If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Privacy Policy govern our relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, you are not permitted to use our website.

These Terms of Use are effective from 17th May 2022.

Our Details

The term ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to our company who is the owner of the website. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.
You can find out contact details and our address on the website’s contact page

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

Changes to website

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
Other documents pertaining to the use of this website are located in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.

You have a responsibility to ensure that any persons who access our website on your computer/ device are permitted to do so.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

We do not guarantee that our website does not contain viruses or other malicious software. Nor do are we responsible if malware was transferred to your computer / device.

Accuracy

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

External Links

From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

Inbound Links

You may link to our website in an appropriate manner as long as it does not misrepresent or harm our business . We may withdraw permission to link to our website at any time.

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England and Wales.

Prohibited use

Prohibited use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence. Including fraudulent purposes and purposely upload malware.

Please do not submit any information about a person if they are under 18 years old. Or submit any sensitive personal information. Please see our privacy policy for further details.

Permitted use

The content on our website is provided for your personal, private and non-commercial use only. Acknowledge us as the authors if you share our content.

Copyrights/Trademarks

This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

All trademarks reproduced in this website which are not the property of, or licensed to, the operator are the property of their respective trade mark owners.

Copyright notice

These Terms and Conditions adheres to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/769) (“GDPR”)

GDPR Compliance statement

Our company respects and complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Some of the key ways we comply with these regulations are:

Consent

We explain what you’re consenting to clearly and without ‘legalese’, and ask that you explicitly consent to contact from us.

Breach Notification

In the event of a breach we will notify affected users within 72 hours of first having become aware of the breach.

Right to Access

Users can request confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning them is being processed, where and for what purpose. Further, we shall provide a copy of the personal data, free of charge, in an electronic format.

Right to be Forgotten

Once we have compared your (the subjects’) rights to “the public interest in the availability of the data”, we may delete your personal data where you have requested this.

Data Portability

We allow you to receive the personal data concerning you, which we will provide in a ‘commonly used and machine readable format’ and you have the right to transmit that data to another ‘controller’.

Privacy by Design

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures, in an effective way, in order to meet the requirements of this Regulation and protect the rights of data subjects’. We hold and process only the data absolutely necessary for the completion of our duties (data minimisation), as well as limiting the access to personal data to those needing to act out the processing.

Cookies Policy

This policy sets out the basis on which our company uses cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website. This Cookies Policy is effective from 17th May 2022.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.

About Cookies

What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and Non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘Non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and Persistent Cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser:

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First & Third Party Cookies
Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’:

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

First-Party Cookies

The following cookies are set directly by the website:

Cookie Set By: Google Analytics
Name: _gacvbcb
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Expires: 2 Years
Data sent to: Ireland
Categories: Non- Essential, Statistics

Cookie Set By: Google Analytics
Name: _gid _gat
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website._gat is used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
Expires: Session
Data sent to: Ireland
Categories: Non-essential, Statistics

Cookie Set By: Google Analytics
Name: collect
Purpose: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
Expires: Session
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google
Name: NID
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device and remembers user preferences. The ID is used for targeted ads.
Expires: Session 6 Months
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Third-Party Cookies

The following cookies are placed on your device by third party website domains.

Cookie Set By: Google Analytics
Name: _gac, _utma, __utmb, __utmc, _utmv, _utmz,
Purpose: These are common performance cookies that many websites use. It allows us to collect anonymous information about how you and others use our website and helps us to improve the website.
For more details please read Google’s Analytics overview.
You can always opt-out of Google Analytics cookies by Google’s opt-out tool.
More privacy information: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Expires: Session – 2 years
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential

Google Analytics cookies

Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

How to opt in or out from analytical cookies:

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and web beacons.
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies via adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below explain how to change your browser settings for the most commonly used web browsers:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US
Opera: https://www.opera.com/help

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine.

Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

Contact

Please use the contact details on our contacts page.

This document was last updated 17th May 2022