THIS POLICY WAS UPDATED ON 14 September 2017.

Introduction

This website makes use of cookies. These are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: All about Cookies and Your Online Choices.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. A list of the cookies used on this website is set out below.

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By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. If, however, you would rather not, please visit the About Cookies website to find out how to change your browser settings in order to prevent cookies being placed on your device.

Cookies for improving service by measuring traffic

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, in order to find out how visitors interact with our website so we can improve it. Information is collected anonymously and website trends are reported without identifying individual visitors.

Cookie nameand Purpose

__utma

Keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. It expires after two years.

__utmb and __utmc

The B and C cookies work together to calculate how long a visit takes.

__utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site.

__utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes, and then it expires.

__utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn't, it expires.

__utmz keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keyword was used, and where they were in the world when the website was accessed. It expires after six months.

Squarespace

Squarespace has some information on its cookies here: http://www.squarespace.com/privacy/ and here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205814168

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Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these
cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Note that Squarespace says:

Squarespace may make use of cookies which are strictly necessary for the proper operation of our system.

Advertising cookies

This website includes some advertising, eg from Google Ads and other companies. Advertising cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

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Third party cookies

We use a number of third-party add-ins for various reasons, such as making the site more user-friendly or to provide additional statistical information (these change from time to time or from website to website). As we have no control over the privacy policies set by these third parties we have listed them below along with links to their privacy and/or cookies policies.

Addthis – makes it easy for visitors to share content in various social networks.

Shareaholic – makes it easy for visitors to share content in various social networks.

CGIScript.netproducts – we use some of the products of CGIScript.net, to improve the functionality of our website. These include csIndex, csPoller and csFormBuilder. In answer to our query about cookies, we were told:

All the public parts of the scripts have minimal session cookies.. mainly just to control the functionality. They don't contain any real useful info.

Clustrmap – indicates where visitors are coming from, and gives an idea of how many come from different parts of the world

Daily Motion – a video-sharing site

e-Junkie – a shopping cart service we use to sell some of our products.

Flickr

– a photo- and video-sharing site

Lulu – a print-on-demand website which also makes e-book versions available.

Outbrain -- makes recpommendations of further reading based on the article you are reading.

TrueTube – a video-sharing site

Youtube – a video-sharing site

Zemanta – makes recommended reading based on the content of the article. There is no privacy information on their website. However, in an email response to our query about this issue, they wrote:

Zemanta is the plug-in that is active only when you edit your posts. Zemanta does not set cookies to visitors of your site.
There is a small branded image at the bottom that allows us to count impressions of posts (which you are free to delete if you want, it's a promotion for us).

Please note that other third party services may be used from time to time as well.

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Further information

Please note that Squarespace automatically records visitors’ IP addresses, largely as a spam-detection measure. We do not try to use this information to find out visitors’ personal details. We take your privacy seriously. We are registered under the UK’s Data Protection Act, and you can view our full Privacy policy online.