EU Cookie Law

Our sites and Cookies - You are in control!

On 26th May 2012, new laws came into force in the EU that affects most web sites. If Cookies are used in a site, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (UK Regulations) asks that the website user must give consent to the use and placing of Cookies. To consent please click I Agree Now,

Firstly: If you do not want us (and all other sites) to place cookies on your system you can simply switch cookies off in your browser. See the article below on: How to enable and disable cookies using your browser
Note: If you do disable our cookies you may find that certain sections of our website do not work. For example, you may have difficulties logging in or viewing articles or products.

What is a Cookie?:

Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term "cookies" in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

Certain cookies contain personal information, for example, if you click to "remember me" when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won't collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user's general location.

For More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

What Cookies are we using?

• We use Smarter Tools Analytics Software - Smarter Track to collect general data about customer use. We do not associate or attach captured data to your personal data.

We use this to collect web stats, so that we may improve the website for users

• We use Piwik Analytics to collect general data about customer use. We do not associate or attach this to your personal data

We use this to collect web stats, so that we may improve the website for users

• We use the Add This Component so that you can use Social Networking Links

This is a list of AddThis cookies and what they do:

loc - This is our geolocation cookie, so our publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located
Coyote-2-a0f0083 - This is our load balancer cookie
bt - A behaviour targeting cookie
ana_svc - a real-time service cookie
phpbb3_* and style_cookie - These are set by our support forum software
__utm* - Google analytics tracking
uid/uit - User id and login time tracking
psc - View counter cookie
di/dt - Date tracking cookies for determining expiration of other cookies
ssh/sshs - Service share history, used for configuring our preferred services.
We may also use this to collect web stats, so that we may improve the website for users and to allow users to link to their favourite social network. We do not associate or attach this to your personal data

How to disable behaviorally targeted advertising cookies
If you are concerned about behaviorally targeted advertising cookies (that serve you advertisements based on your use our site and other websites), users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of these third party cookies.
The above websites are not our sites and we are not responsible for their content.

How to enable/disable cookies using your browser

Google Chrome

• Click on the "wrench" icon on the browser (usually found top-right corner) to open the tools menu
• From the tools menu select Options"
• Click the "Under the Hood" tab from the menu on the left.
• In the "Privacy" section, select the Content "settings" button
• To enable cookies: select Allow local data to be "set" option
• To disable cookies: select "Block all cookies" option
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0. 9.0

• Click on "Tools" at the top of your browser window and select "Internet Options"
• In the options window navigate to the "Privacy" tab
• To enable cookies: Set the slider to "Medium" or below
• To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page from Microsoft: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Mozilla Firefox

• Click on "Tools" at the browser menu and select "Options"
• Select the Privacy panel
• To enable cookies: Check "Accept cookies for sites"
• To disable cookies: Uncheck at "Accept cookies for sites"
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies

Opera

• Click on "Setting" at the browser menu and select "Settings"
• Select "Quick Preferences"
• To enable cookies: check "Enable Cookies"
• To disable cookies: uncheck "Enable Cookies"
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Opera, refer to the following page from Opera Software: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari on OSX

• Click on "Safari" at the menu bar and select the "Preferences" option
• Click on "Security"
• To enable cookies: In the "Accept cookies" section select "Only from site you navigate to"
• To disable cookies: In the "Accept cookies" section select "Never"
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html

All other browsers
Please look for a "help" function in the browser or contact the browser provider.