The Serpentia website uses technology to collect information about its use, to distinguish between users, to help us provide you with a good experience and to allow us to improve the site and the service we can offer.

This means that when you visit our website, cookies will be placed on your computer or other device.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit our website. A cookie file is stored on your device and allows us, or our third party partners to recognise you and make your visit easier and more useful to you when you revisit our website. 

How does Serpentia use cookies?

Cookies allow us to recognise users (where appropriate),and helps us improve the user experience.

Without certain types of cookies enabled, we can’t guarantee that the website and its functionality will be as we intended it to be.

We use cookies to obtain information about your visits and about the device you use to access our website.

This includes where available, your IP address and browser type and, depending on the cookie, also includes the reporting of statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.  

In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and to assist with third party applications like Facebook Pixel which we use for certain marketing activity.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better.

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, 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.

How you can control and delete cookies

However you can set up your browser to delete or refuse some or all cookies, or to notify you when you are sent a cookie and therefore choose whether or not to accept it.

Please remember, if you do delete some or all your cookies, some features on our website, such as remembering your username, may not work and your experience on our website may be affected.

If your computer is shared with others, you should either consider setting your browser to refuse cookies before accessing our website or clear cookies stored by the browser every time you close your browser to avoid your email address or other details being displayed in the log on field to a subsequent user of our website.