What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for various 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 website. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disable cookies:

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser’s Help for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in the deactivation of certain functionalities and features of this website. We therefore recommend that you do not deactivate cookies.

Cookies used by the e-commerce platform:

– Account-related cookies:

If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for the management of the registration process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, but in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your website preferences when you leave.

– Login-related cookies:

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember that action. This saves you having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are normally removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when you log in.

– Cookies related to e-mail newsletters:

This site offers newsletter or e-mail subscription services and cookies may be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only for registered / unsubscribed users.

– Requests processing related cookies:

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

– Cookies related to searches:

We periodically offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, useful tools or to understand our user base more precisely. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide accurate results after changing pages.

– Form-related cookies:

When you submit data via a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies can be set to remember the user’s details for future correspondence.

– Website preference cookies:

To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called up whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.

– 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 may encounter through this website.

This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and reliable analysis solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track items such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit, so that we can continue to produce attractive content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

We periodically test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site looks. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site, while we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.

As we sell products, it is important for us to understand the statistics on how many visitors to our site actually buy, and so this is the type of data that these cookies will track. This is important for you, because it means we can make accurate business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising costs and products to guarantee the best possible price.