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Like nearly every site on the internet, this site uses cookies to operate. A cookie is a small file that can help sites store information about you to help as you use the internet. They’re not code so can’t infect your computer or read anything off your computer.

Some cookies are needed to operate a site, such as when you add something to a shopping cart online or choose dark mode settings for social media sites. Cookies however are used by internet advertising companies to tailor adverts to the user based on what they are likely to be interested in.

This site uses the first type of cookies to run. Because we want to keep this simple, we don’t use any other tracking cookies and we don’t see information on who our users are.

Some elements of our site may however include third party cookies, such as cookies set by Google when you watch a YouTube video embedded onto the site or a Google Map for example. As these are useful to our site, we don’t want to remove these but we encourage you to be aware of this.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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