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Cookie Policy

What are Cookies? 
Manage your cookie preferences

Cookies are tiny text files of letters and numbers, that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and help us provide you with the best experience we can. They are used by most websites to help personalise your web experience. Some features will not function if you do not allow cookies.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. A “persistent” cookie will remain for a period of time set for that cookie. A “session” cookie is allocated only for the duration of your visit to our website and automatically expires when you close down your browser.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you

 

Which cookies do we use and why? 

1. Strictly necessary

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of our website, andhelping you to move around our website and use the features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and subscribing to our services. These cookies don't gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.

We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:

  • Remember information such as the details you've entered on order forms when you navigate to different pages in a single web browser session 

2. Functional

These cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for selling advertising or remembering where you've been on the internet.

We use functional cookies to:

  • Remember your preferences and settings
  • Support social media components, such as Facebook (for example, where a website uses a plugin from these third party platforms)
  • Remember if you've been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you 

3. Performance (analytical)

We use performance cookies to:

  • Provide statistics on how our website is used
  • See how effective our adverts are (we don't use this information to target adverts to you when you visit other websites)
  • Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur 

4. Third party

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various 'targeting' cookies which are linked to services provided by third parties, such as 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons. Third parties will use this information to make theirwebsites, and the advertising displayed on them, more relevant to your interests. The third party provides these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.

How you can control cookies

  1. Cookie banner 

You can click the "Cookie Settings feature in the cookie banner, which pops up when you first access our website, and modify your cookie preferences.

2. Browser controls 

Most modern browsers offer you ways to control or block cookies. These browser controls will usually be found in the "options' or "preferences" menu. For more help, you may take a look at the "Help" settings or review this website for more details aboutcookies.org.

You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, however if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our websites will perform for you.

3. Ad cookies and targeting 

You can find more information or turn off targeting by member companies at YourOnlineChoices UK youronlinechoices.com/uk.

How long we keep your information collected by cookies

Except for ‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies, persistent cookies on our website will expire up to 2 years after you last accessed our website.

About this policy

If our use of cookies changes, we will post the changes to this policy. Please check frequently as online data collection practices and our use of them continue to evolve. To contact us about this policy, you may email shinds@ttgmedia.com

This version of the policy was last updated 8 August 2025