Cookies Policy

This page was last updated on 26 November 2021. 

Background

Cookie legislation was introduced in the revision of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, 2003, updated 2011. 

Why do we use cookies?

Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and to improve the efficiency of our website. We use certain cookies to remember you when you visit the website, to keep track of browsing patterns and to understand how visitors use the website site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. There are different types of cookies: some are essential for the site to operate properly, whereas others are aimed at enhancing and personalising your user experience. Cookies can help us to understand how consumers are interacting with our website, which helps us to improve our site and deliver a better service to you.

What cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that distinguish you from other users.

Analytical/performance cookies

In some special cases we also use analytical and performance cookies provided by trusted third parties. They 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. Our website from time to time uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

What duration are cookies used for? 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Essential Cookies

These cookies will be automatically deployed onto your computer when you use the Website.

Third-party 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. We also use social media buttons and/or plugins from time to time on our website that allow you to connect with our social network in various ways. For these to work the relevant social media sites including but not limited to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn 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.

How to turn off cookies

You can turn off cookies at any time, by going into your browser settings, however this may have a detrimental effect on your user experience. If you are happy to continue letting us use cookies in the ways set out in this policy, to help us guide our work, then you need not do anything.

For more information go to www.allaboutcookies.org