What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience and improve the design and readability of this website. This page describes what information these cookies gather, how I use it and why one sometimes needs to store these cookies. I explain below how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How I Use Cookies on this Website
I 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 applied 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 some of the functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies Used on this Website
Subscription related cookies
This site offers blog subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed / unsubscribed users.
Forms related cookies
When you submit data through a form such as the Contact form, or comments on a blog article, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping website owners understand how you use their site and how they 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. But that data is anonymous and will only indicate when you browsed the website, the geographical area from which you accessed the website, the type of browser you use (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox etc...).
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that I can continue to produce relevant content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit, which helps me to understand how I can improve the site.
More Information
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