This terms and conditions is issued on behalf of the Bodyspeak Somatics, so that when we mention Bodyspeak Somatics, “we”, “us” or “our” in this terms and conditions, we are referring to Bodyspeak Somatics, who is responsible for processing your data. Bodyspeak Somatics is the controller and responsible for this website. 

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Important Legal Information
Please read this information carefully. Access to this website is confirmation that you have understood and agreed to be bound by the following terms and conditions.

This website and the information provided on it are for the use of permanent residents of the United Kingdom only.

Copyright
All contents of this website, including but not limited to the text, graphics, links and sounds, are the copyright of Bodyspeak Somatics and may not be copied, distributed, uploaded, republished, decompiled, disassembled or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of Bodyspeak Somatics.

Jurisdiction
Bodyspeak Somatics controls and operates this website from the UK and the information delivered via the website is deemed to have been delivered in the UK. Bodyspeak Somatics makes no representation that the material contained is appropriate or available for use in other locations outside the United Kingdom.

Disclaimer
The information published on this website is provided as a convenience to visitors and should be used for information purposes only and is subject to change without notice, if you require additional information, you should contact your Bodyspeak Somatics representative.

Bodyspeak Somatics makes every effort to ensure that the information contained on its website is current and accurate at the date of publication, no warranties are made, either expressed or implied, as to reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information. Bodyspeak Somatics accepts no liability for any loss arising directly or indirectly from the use of or action taken in reliance on such information. These documents should not be copied, reproduced or redistributed, in whole or in part.

No warranty is given as to the freedom of this website from errors, defects, viruses, malicious programme or macro. Links from this website exist for information only and Bodyspeak Somatics accepts no responsibility or liability for the information contained on any such site. The existence of a link to another website does not imply or express endorsement of its provider, product or services by Bodyspeak Somatics. Links to this website are not permitted without the prior written consent of Bodyspeak Somatics.

Privacy policy

Bodyspeak Somatics respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Please use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy policy.

Purpose of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how BodySpeak Somatics collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you purchase a product or service.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager in the following ways:
– Full name of entity: Bodyspeak Somatics
– Email address: evelyn@bodyspeaksomatics.com
– Postal address: 1 Lynstone Road, Lynstone, Bude, EX23 0LW
– Telephone number: 07850 216 207

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority for data protection issues in England whose email address is https://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/privacy-and-cookies. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

Glossary

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.

Internal Third Parties
Other companies who act as joint controllers or processors with us and who are based worldwide and provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.

External Third Parties
– Service providers acting as processors based worldwide who provide (IT and system administration services).
– Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based worldwide who provide (consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services).
– Regulators, tax and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based worldwide who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

Bodyspeak Somatics Acceptable Use Policy
Please read the terms of this policy carefully before using the site.

What’s In These Terms

This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when you upload content to our site, make contact with other users on our site, link to our site, or interact with our site in any other way.

Who Can Use the Bodyspeak Somatics Website
You may use the Bodyspeak Somatics Website only if:
– You are 18 years of age; and
– Capable of forming a binding contract with BodySpeak Somatics; and
– Not barred from using the Website under any applicable law.

By downloading or otherwise using the Website you:
– Warrant that you are of 18 years of age; and
– And possess the legal authority to enter into these terms and the terms of Website Use; and
– Use the Website in accordance with these terms and the terms of Website Use.

By Using Our Site You Accept These Terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and our terms of Website Use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 25 November 2021.

Prohibited Uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes.

You may not use our site:
– In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
– In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
– For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
– To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
– To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
– To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
– To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:
– Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
– Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
– any part of our site;
– any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
– any software used in the provision of our site; or
– any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 25 November 2021. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
– Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
– Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
– Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
– Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
– Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
– Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

How is Your Personal Data Collected
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct Interactions
You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
– apply for our products or services;
– create an account on our website;
– subscribe to our service or publications;
– request marketing to be sent to you;
– enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
– give us feedback or contact us.

Automated Technologies or Interactions
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources
We will receive personal data about you from various third parties (and public sources) as set out below:

Technical Data from the following parties:
– analytics providers, such as Google;
– advertising networks (such as Facebook); and
– search information providers (such as Google).
– Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services (such as Paypal, Stripe) or other providers.
– Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators.
– Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources (e.g. Electoral Registers, etc).

How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
– Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
– Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
– Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

See the Glossary and Legal Terms to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes For Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity – To register you as a new customer
Type of data – (a) Identity; (b) Contact
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest – Performance of a contract with you

Purpose/Activity – To process and deliver your order including – (a) Manage payments, fees and charges; (b) Collect and recover money owed to us
Type of data – (a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Financial; (d) Transaction; (e) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest – (a) Performance of a contract with you; (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)

Purpose/Activity – To manage our relationship with you which will include – (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy; (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
Type of data – (a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Profile; (d) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest – (a) Performance of a contract with you; (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation; (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

Purpose/Activity – To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
Type of data – (a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Profile; (d) Usage; (e) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest – (a) Performance of a contract with you; (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

Purpose/Activity – To administer and prPurpose/Activity – To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
Type of data – (a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Technical
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest – (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise); (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

Purpose/Activity – To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
Type of data – (a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Technical; (d) Usage; (e) Profile; (f) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest – Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

Opting Out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time (by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences OR by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by contacting us at any time).

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product and/or service purchase.

Change of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data above:
– Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
– External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
– Specific third parties listed (Purposes for which we will use your personal data) above.
– Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Transfers
We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data. These rules are called “binding corporate rules”.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented.
– We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
– Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
– Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention
How Long Will You Use My Personal Data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your legal rights below for further information.
In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

No Fee Usually Required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What We May Need From You
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time Limit To Respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
– If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy
– Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
– Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
– You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time here we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Interactive Services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:
– Chat rooms
– Bulletin boards

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Content Standards
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contribution), and to any interactive services associated with it.
The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

BodySpeak Somatic will determine, in its discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.

A Contribution must:
– Be accurate (where it states facts).
– Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
– Comply with the law in any country from which it is posted.

A Contribution must not:
– Be defamatory of any person.
– Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
– Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
– Promote sexually explicit material.
– Include child sexual abuse material.
– Promote violence.
– Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
– Infringe any copyright, database right or trademark of any other person.
– Be likely to deceive any person.
– Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
– Promote any illegal activity.
– Be in contempt of court.
– Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
– Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
– Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
– Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from BodySpeak Somatics, if this is not the case.
– Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
– Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
– Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.

Breach of This Policy
When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
– Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
– Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any contribution uploaded by you to our site.
– Issue of a warning to you.
– Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
– Further legal action against you.
– Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Which Country’s Laws Apply to Any Disputes?
Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by the laws of England and Wales and you and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.

Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Below explains the cookies we use and why.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.

Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:
– Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.- Analytical or performance cookies.
– Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
– Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
– Tracking cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.

We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Cookie title – http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Abbreviation – _utma. _utmb. _utmc. _utmz.
Purpose – These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile usage reports and to help us to improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Cookie title – Cookie Dismissed
Abbreviation – cookie_widget_dismissed
Purpose – This cookie resets the cookie acceptance panel after seven days. This is due to any changes in our privacy policy and/or legal and/or terms of conditions. This is a bespoke cookie. The only data we recognise is your last visit date and time.

Cookie title – WordPress Cookies
Abbreviation – wp-settings-{time}-[UID], wordpress_test_cookie, wordpress_logged_in_[hash], wordpress_[hash]
Purpose – These are the cookies that activate in the WordPress admin area of the website. They do not affect a viewers visit to the website and are purely for adaption to a users preference of how WordPress works.

WordPress uses the cookie wordpress_[hash] to store the authentication details on login. The authentication details include the username and double hashed copy of the password. However, this usage of the cookie is limited to the admin console area, the backend dashboard of the website.

The cookie wordpress_logged_in_[hash] is used to indicate when you are logged in, and who you are. This cookie is maintained on the front-end of the website as well when logged in.

Here [hash] represents the value that is obtained by applying a specific mathematical formula applied to the username and password. It is to ensure that the input values are safe, and no one can access these data using the cookies as it is difficult to ‘unhash’ the hashed data.

The cookie wp-settings-{time}-[UID] is used to customise the view of your admin interface and the front-end of the website. The value represented by [UID] is the individual user ID of the user as given to them in the users’ database table.

WordPress also sets a cookie named wordpress_test_cookie to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. This cookie is used on the front-end, even if you are not logged in.

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after a reasonable period.