Information We Gather from Users
As with most other web sites, we automatically collect data about your visit in log files. The data gathered may include things such as your: IP address, browser type, internet service provider name, platform type, time stamp, links you click, etc. This data is used to analyze site issues, trends, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. None of the data gathered enables us to personally identify you. We do not sell this information to third parties and use it for in-house optimization.
We also use third party services that may collect data automatically in the background.
As is common practice with many websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
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The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
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We also use social media buttons on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook (Policy Here), will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their cookie policies.