Cookies are used only for social sharing and anonymous stats (web counter).
You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings.
This website uses cookies to "enhance your user experience". What this actually means is that information (one or more cookies) is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to this website and which sections of the you find most interesting (that's the "statcounter" bit, see below) – so I can see which pages are most visited, and which are not. The other feature that uses cookies is the social share buttons (facebook, twitter, etc.) – see below for more information about them too.
General
This website also saves the cookie heateorSsBrowserMsg in your browser to track which visitors have seen the popup cookie-notification and which haven’t. This cookie isn’t related to your personal data or your IP address.
STATCOUNTER
Statcounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.
Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called is_unique) may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.
You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse same here:
http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/
For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy the:
https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy
SOCIAL-SHARE BUTTONS
Facebook
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Twitter
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy:
https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
Linkedin
We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Pinterest
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Strictly Necessary Cookies can be enabled to save your preferences for cookie settings.
Leaving this cookie disabled means the cookie pop-up will appear each time you visit this website.
This website uses Statcounter to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.
Keeping this cookie enabled helps me to keep track of which pages people are finding most interesting.
Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!
