Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

1. Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.
   
   Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).
   
   A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

2. Cookies on this website
   We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.
   We may send to you the following cookies:

   1. Google Analytics:
      Google Analytics operates: Google Analytics, Google Website Optimizer
      
      Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about visitors to a Web site for marketers. Google Analytics makes it possible to track users across search engines, email campaigns and display advertising giving advertisers the opportunity to optimize campaigns on multiple platforms.
      
      Website:
      http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/index.html 
   2. Google:
      Google operates: FeedBurner, Google +1, Google AJAX Search API, Google Custom Search Engine, Google FriendConnect, Google Widgets
      
      Google operates an Internet search engine, offering targeted search results from billions of web pages. Results are based on a proprietary algorithm called PageRank, and advertisers deliver relevant ads targeted to search queries or Web content. The Google Network is a network of third-party customers that use Google's ad programs to deliver relevant ads to their own sites. Google subsidiaries include YouTube and DoubleClick.
      
      Website:
      http://www.google.com
   3. DoubleClick:
      
      DoubleClick operates: DoubleClick, DoubleClick DART, DoubleClick Floodlight, DoubleClick Spotlight
      
      DoubleClick offers technology products and services sold primarily to advertising agencies and media companies. Clients can traffic, target, deliver, and report on interactive advertising campaigns through its main product line DART and across Google's content network.
      
      Website:
      http://www.doubleclick.com
   4. Facebook:
      Facebook operates: Facebook Beacon, Facebook Connect, Facebook Conversion Tracking, Facebook Social Graph, Facebook Social Plugins
      
      Facebook is an online social network accessible to anyone with an active email address. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
      
      Website:
      http://www.facebook.com/
   5. Google Display Network:
      
      Google Display Network operates: GDN Notice
      
      Many websites, such as news sites and blogs, join the Google Display Network, which enables Google to show ads on their sites. Based on your visits to these websites, Google uses an advertising cookie (from DoubleClick) to associate your browser with interest and demographic categories. Google then uses these categories to show interest-based ads on these websites. Google's Ads Preferences Manager lets you edit these categories associated with your browser. Using the Ads Preferences Manager, you can edit the list of inferred interest and demographic categories that Google has associated with your cookie or opt-out of the cookie entirely. All information Google gathers is used in accordance with Google's privacy policy and helps Google improve your online experience. It is not used to identify you personally and Google will not show interest-based ads based on personal information without your permission. We also will not show interest-based ads based on sensitive information or interest categories, such as those based on, race, religion, sexual orientation, health, or sensitive financial categories, without your opt-in consent.
      
      Website:
      http://www.google.com/ads/displaynetwork/
   6. Google AdSense:
      Google AdSense operates: Google Adsense, Google Affiliate Network
      
      Google AdSense is an ad serving application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Primary products include AdSense for content (text or display) and AdSense for search.
      
      Website:
      http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads
   7. LinkedIn:
      LinkedIn operates: LinkedIn Widgets
      
      LinkedIn is a social networking site. It provides tools to create and maintain professional connections, recommend job opportunities, and connect with industry experts and businesses. Their services are available through website, mobile applications, and developer platforms.
      
      Website:
      http://www.linkedin.com/
   8. Twitter:
      Twitter operates: Twitter Badge, Twitter Button
      
      Twitter is a service used to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent online and mobile messages. People write short updates, often called "Tweets" of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are dynamically posted to a Twitter profile or a blog and sent to your followers
      
      Website:
      http://twitter.com/widgets
   9. Pinterest:
      
      "Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes."
      
      Website:
      http://pinterest.com/
3. How we use cookies
   Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
   
   We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:
   1. to recognise your computer when you visit our website;
   2. to track you as you navigate our website, and to enable the use of any specify feature, on our website;
   3. to improve the website's usability;
   4. to analyse the use of our website;
   5. in the administration of this website;
   6. to personalise our website for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.
4. Third party cookies
   When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies. This applies should you make a comment on our blog using Discuss for example.
   
   Our advertisers and service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:
   1. to track your browser across multiple websites;
   2. to build a profile of your web surfing;
   3. to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.
5. Blocking cookies
   Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
   1. in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector
   2. in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and un-checking "Accept cookies from sites" in the "Privacy" box.
6. About cookies
   Cookies are files, which often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

   Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use the client area on this website

7. Deleting cookies
   You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:

   1. in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files;

   2. in Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you "clear private data" (this setting can be changed by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Settings" in the "Private Data" box) and then clicking "Clear private data" in the "Tools" menu.
      
      Obviously, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

8. Contact us
   
   This website is owned and operated by Gecko Social Ltd.
   
   If you have any questions about our cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us by email to hello@gecko-social.co.uk, by telephone to 0845 862 6661