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Privacy Policy

The privacy policies explains in detail what information our site collects, and for what reason it is collected.

Your Information

Essentially personal information means information or data, which identifies you or is a combination of several pieces of information which couldn’t identify you on their own, but which could become identifiable to you when combined. Any information that falls outside of this is non-personal information.

Let's walk this one through:

Non-personal information:

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how visitor use this site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.

The project compiles aggregate statistics about the number of visitors this site receives and browsers being used. No personally identifying data is included in this type of reporting. The anonymous information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then processed to compile statistical reports on website activity for this site only. We use these reports to evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that we can optimise the content to better meet your needs.

We will not link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. In fact, we will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifiable information from any source. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For further information about how Google Analytics uses cookies and IP address data, see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Cloudeflare, a Delaware corporation, is a similar third party vendor we use to collect anonymous data for statistically purposes. For further information on Cloudeflares terms, see: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms

The cookies (and similar technologies) required to toogle the site is classified as:

  • Non-Essential but harmless - not essential to core functionality but doesn’t get used for tracking a user
  • Fairly Intrusive - Used to track people but do not provide personally identifiable information

Third party applications that we use such as Google Analytics do use cookies on our site to help analyse the web traffic based on your preferences, your visit on our sites and other sites on the internet. To opt out of Google’s use of cookies, please visit the Google content network privacy policy.

If you prefer not to use cookies at all, we recommend adjusting your browser settings accordingly. If you are unsure how to do that, use your favorite search engine to find out everything about it.

Third party Add-ons used at this website:

  • Cloudeflare
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Fonts
  • Typekit

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time. If changes occur, we will clearly indicate such alterations at this page. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use any of our services and let us know about your concerns.