This website puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer.

Cookies are used to:

• remember your preferences
• ensure that only legitimate users are able to use the contact form
• prevent fraud and the sending of spam messages

You’ll normally see a message on the site before a cookie is stored on your computer. Find out more about how to manage cookies.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

When visitors fill out contact forms on the site we collect the data shown in the contact form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The data will be processed to respond to the visitor’s enquiry.

Cookies and Local Storage

A cookie is a small file that can be stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that can be transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Local storage objects are sets of data that can be stored on your browser and/or hard drive by websites. This website uses local storage objects to recognise you when you return to our website. It enables us to remember your preferences for:

• light/dark mode.

We do not use cookies or local storage objects for any other purpose. You may erase the local storage objects by deleting your browser’s history.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

The analytics platform used on this website collects data about your use of this website. Umami Analytics is a privacy-focused solution, which does not collect any personally identifiable information. All data collected is anonymised; users cannot be identified and are never tracked across websites. Analytics data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in monitoring and improving our website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data held about you, including any data you have provided to this website. You can also request that any personal data held about you is erased. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Browsers allow you to refuse and to delete cookies, instructions for how to do this in the major browsers can be found at About Cookies.

Blocking all cookies can have a negative impact on website usability. Blocking cookies will cause some features on the website not to function.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We commit to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This policy may be changed from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.