Cookie Policy

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INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies. Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Analytical/performance cookies. 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.

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

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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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

 

Cookie Name Purpose More information
Necessary TS# Not known. Data sent to Ireland.
Targeting (Marketing) GPS Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. Data sent to the United States
Targeting (Marketing) IDE Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the web site user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. Data sent to the United States
Targeting (Marketing) PREF Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different web sites. Data sent to the United States
Analytical _ga Used by Google Analytics 4 to distinguish users to provide statistics on site usage. Data sent to the United States
Analytical _ga_<ID> Used by Google Analytics 4 to store and continue the current session state Data sent to the United States
Functionality test_cookie Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. Data sent to the United States
Functionality (Marketing) VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Tries to estimate the users’ band width on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Data sent to the United States
Targeting (Marketing) YSC Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Data sent to the United States
Unclassified beatSessionId Not known. Data sent to the United States
Unclassified beatSessionTs Not known
Unclassified bt Not known
Unclassified fed Not known
Unclassified fedops.logger.sessionId Not known
Unclassified hs Not known Data sent to Ireland.
Unclassified svSession Not known Data sent to Ireland.
Unclassified XSRF-TOKEN Not known Data sent to Ireland.

 

 

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.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after [INSERT EXPIRY PERIOD].