Cookies and how they Benefit You

Carole Simmons operates the http://www.carolesimmons.com website (the “Service”).

The website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

The cookies help:

• Make the website work as you would expect

• Improve the speed/security of the site

• Continuously improve the website for you

• Make the marketing more efficient (ultimately helping offer the services at the prices I do)

The cookies are not used to:

• Pass data to advertising networks

• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

• Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies used below

Granting me permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies I take this, and your continued use of my website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from this site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that this site will not work as you would expect.

More about Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

Cookies are used to make the website work including:

• Allowing you to add comments to the site

• Remembering that you have accepted the notification that this website uses cookies

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use the site.

Third party functions

This site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or a Facebook ‘Like’, some of which you will find on this site.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

Cookies are used to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited the website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when the site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps me to continuously improve the website. These so called “Analytics” programs also tell me if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping me to put more money into developing services for you instead of marketing spend.

This website uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to this website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how to switch off cookies here).

Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours, and a large proportion of the world’s, websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software here.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.