What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites our site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, 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, although this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. In most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this, and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionalities and features of this site. It is therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact or comment pages, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we make it possible for you 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 upon whenever you interact with a page which is affected by them.

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 - one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web - to help us understand how you use the site and ways in which 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).
We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work , social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn will set cookies through our site. These 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.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if you’re unsure of whether you need cookies or not, it’s usually safer to leave them enabled in case they interact with one of the features of our site which you find useful. If you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods. Email: contact@waat.eu

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.