Cookie Policy for Lapapo Special Needs

This is the Cookie Policy for Lapapo Special Needs, accessible from lapapo.co.uk. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files of letters and numbers stored on your browser or downloaded to your computer, if you agree.  The aim is to improve your experience. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

This page describes what information the cookies gather, how we use them 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.

For more general information on cookies and how to manage them, visit aboutcookies.org.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of 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 site. It is recommended that you leave on 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.

Disabling Cookies

You can block cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your particular browser’s Help page for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality and features of this website and many other websites that you visit. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire as set out in the ‘Individual Cookies We Set’ section below or, at the latest, after ten years

The Types of Cookies We Set

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies.

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use a shopping cart.

• Analytical or performance cookies.

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

• Functionality cookies.

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you.

• Targeting cookies.

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

The Individual Cookies We Set

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, the purposes for which we use them, and how long they are retained by your browser and hard-drive below:

• Account related cookies.

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.

• Login related cookies.

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

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 set up several cookies to save your 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. You can remove the login cookie by logging out of your account.

• Comment related cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These cookies will last for one year. We may also save your billing and shipping address information to make transactions smoother for you.

• Email newsletters related cookies.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

• Orders 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.

• Forms and comments related cookies.

When you submit data to 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. 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. We may also save your billing and shipping address information to make transactions smoother for you.

• Site preferences cookies.

In order 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. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

• Article related cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, 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. The cookie will last one day.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. Any such third-party cookie usage is governed by the policy of the third party placing the cookie, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics, which is an analytics solution 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.

• Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
• 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 while using the site, whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
• As we sell products, it is 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 advertising 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: Facebook and Youtube 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.

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit https://lapapo.co.uk/cookie-consent-edit  ] to manage the use of these types of cookies.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: info@lapapo.co.uk