Cookie policy

1. Cookies are necessary and enhance your browsing experience. Without cookies, you would have to re-enter all of your information every time you revisited our site. A cookie will simply remember your information on the website to save you time.
2. Cookies are simple text files. They are needed to help navigate automatic logins, password authentication, shopping cart functions, personal preference settings and a variety of other functions. Cookies make these functions smooth and hassle-free to the user.
3. Cookies are not the same thing as Spyware. A cookie stores your website surfing information; Spyware stores your Internet surfing information (every site you visit).
4. Cookies are harmless. They cannot introduce viruses on your computer.
5. Macroom Opticians 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 our 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.]
6. Refusing cookies
   Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.
   In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.
   In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.
   Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.