Minifactorum 

Cookie Policy

 

A “Cookie” is a block of text placed in a file on your hard drive placed by a website you’ve visited. Portions of the website may use cookies for security and authentication purposes.

 

We use cookies on this website for a number of reasons, including but not limited to tracking the number of people who read each article (via Google Analytics), and serving advertisements. Our use of Google Analytics includes the service’s Advertising Features in order to customise the advertising that you see on the site.

 

If you do not wish to have cookies stored in your browser, you may instruct your web browser to reject them. Instructions are available online

 

We do not share or sell information we may learn about you through our use of cookies to any third party or for any purpose.

 

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

 

If you edit or publish an article or comment, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Cookies that we Use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

1. Authentication – we use cookies  to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website   (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies:) ;
   Status – we use cookies  to help us to determine if you are logged into our website   (cookies used for this purpose are: Performance and functionality cookies) 
2. Personalisation – we use cookies  to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you   (cookies used for this purpose are: Analytics and customisation cookies:) ;
3. Security – we use cookies  as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally   (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies) ;
4. Advertising – we use cookies  to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you   (cookies used for this purpose are: Social networking cookies:);
   Analysis – we use cookies  to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services   (cookies used for this purpose are: Analytics and customisation cookies) ; and
5. Cookie consent – we use cookies  to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally   (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies).

 

You also can learn more about cookies by visiting this site: http://www.allaboutcookies.org, 

The site includes additional useful information on cookies and more complex and detailed information on how to block cookies on different types of browsers and mobile devices (or see below). 

Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used in the Services, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Services.

Type of Cookies	Description and further information
Essential Cookies	Essential cookies are cookies that enable you to navigate and use all the features in the Services and functions provided by us on our site.  For example, without these, you’d not be able to navigate between pages on the website.
Functionality Cookies	These cookies enable us (site) to remember you have used our Services before, preferences you may have indicated and information you have provided to us to give you a customised experience.  For example, this would include ensuring the continuity of your registration process.
Performance and Analytical Cookies	This information is used to make sure our Services can cope with the volume of users, to help us develop the site and system, correct errors in the Services and to measure use across our Services (site). These cookies help us understand if you have used our Services before so we can identify the number of unique users we receive. They also help us understand how long you spend using our Services and from where you have accessed the Services, so that we can improve the Services and learn about the most popular aspects of the Services.
Retargeting or Advertising Cookies	We use third parties, for example, Google Analytics, to analyse statistical information from users of the Site. We might be able to associate such information with other information which we collect from you once we receive it from a third party. These cookies collect information about the pages you visit and also other information about other websites you visit. This information is only collected by reference to the cookie identifier that you are using. For more information visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.

 

This site and sites associated with our business also collect information using web beacons. Web beacons are electronic images that can be used in our Services or emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, track the number of visits to our website, understand usage and campaign effectiveness, and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon.

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Cookies used by our service providers
Third-party cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we 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. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

The Google AdSense service we use to serve to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {Twitter, LinkedIN, Facebook, Pinterest,Blogger, Google+, Google, Tumbler, Instagram}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/)  The relevant cookies are: Analytics and customisation cookies

YouTube (https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/)

We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies.  OR We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This behaviour tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website).  You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting:

https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at:


The relevant cookies are: Advertising cookies. 

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996. 

ShareThis  (http://www.sharethis.com/privacy/) 

WooCommerce  (https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/restashop.com/en/privacy-policy). 

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.

Google Tag Manager

This cookie is associated with Google Tag Manager which we use to load scripts into our website pages.
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WordPress
This cookie is set by WordPress for performance optimization.
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Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.

 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics gathers information allowing us to understand interactions with our websites and ultimately refine that experience to better serve you.

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Functional Cookies

 

These cookies allow the provision of enhancing functionality and personalization, such as videos and live chats. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these functionalities may not function properly.

Cookies

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Wistia

These cookies support video functionality on some of our pages.

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Targeting Cookies

These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted advertising across different websites. Also see our Privacy Policy

Cookies Categories

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Instagram
These cookies are set by Instagram and are used to embed forms on our website.

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LinkedIn

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YouTube

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WooCommerce Cookies
To keep track of cart data, WooCommerce makes use of 3 cookies:
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Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(Firefox); Https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
(Opera); http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
(Internet Explorer); https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
(Safari); https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
(Edge). https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy 

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Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Our details

This website is owned and operated by the Minifactorum
We are registered in England and Wales, and our registered office is at
Minifactorum,

Our principal place of business is at  See above .
You can contact us: (a) Gary Powell

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

 

Minifactorum

Minifactorum,/Minifactorum and https://www.Minifactorum.com/ are registered Copyright and Trademarks of the Same organisation.  Minifactorum

Using our website contact form ;

by telephone, on  the contact number published on our website from time to time; or

by email, using  the email address published on our website from time to time.

 

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Data protection officer

Our data protection officer’s contact details are: Gary Powell,