What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

 

Cookies cannot harm your computer. They play an important role in helping us understand how to improve the website to suit your needs. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.

We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience and show more relevant content and advertising.

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies make  the website work and deliver services that you’d expect, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

 

On some of our websites, we use cookies to enable users on our site to browse and purchase titles. These help perform essential functionality such as remembering what items you have added to your shopping cart, keeping you logged in to your shopping account or remembering your order number.

 

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

 

You may disable these by changing your browser settings (see here for how to manage cookies), but this may affect how the website functions.

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How to manage cookies

If you want to restrict, block or disable cookies, you can do via the side panel. To open the cookie panel, just click on the cookie settings tab at the bottom right of your screen.

 

If you wish to restrict, block or disable any Necessary cookies, you can do so by changing your browser settings. If you would like more specific information about how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which has detailed information for each browser as well as more information about cookies in general.

 

Please be aware that if cookies are disabled certain features of the site will not function as intended and this may affect your user experience.