Cookie Policy

About this Cookie Policy

In this Cookie Policy, we try to explain what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

You can at any time change or withdraw your preferences on our website, or change your preferences on your browser, as described below.

This Policy applies to the cluas.ie website.

What are cookies?

Cookies and other technologies enable communications between you and other websites. Cookies are small data files sent from a server to your web browser and are stored in your browser’s cache and allow a website or a third party to recognise your browser. Cookies can provide a means to track user browsing over an extensive period of time and over different domains.

Cookies are often broken down as follows:

  • Session cookies are specific to a particular visit and carry information as you view different pages so you don’t have to re-enter information every time you change pages or go to checkout. Session cookies delete themselves automatically when you end the session or when you close your web browser.
  • Persistent cookies remember information about your preferences on the site and enable a server to recognise you every time you return. They are stored in your browser cache until you choose to delete them, or they delete themselves at the end of the period set by the operator.
  • Third-party cookies are not placed by us but by others and may gather browsing activity across multiple websites and across multiple sessions. They are usually a type of persistent cookie and are stored until you delete them or they expire at the end of the period set by the operator. They store data about your use, but they can be helpful because they allow us to and customise your experience. You can configure your own browser’s settings to set your preferences to accept or reject cookies, including third-party cookies

In addition to cookies, there are other similar technologies which we or third parties use:

  • Web beacons: These are tiny graphics (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) with a unique identifier which are used to understand browsing activity. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are rendered invisibly on web pages when you open a page.
  • Social widgets: These are buttons or icons provided by third-party social media providers that allow you to interact with those social media services when you view a web page or a mobile app screen. These social widgets may collect browsing data, which may be received by the third party that provided the widget, and are controlled by the third parties.
  • UTM codes: These are strings that can appear in a URL (the “Uniform Resource Locator”, which is typically the http or https address entered to go to a web page) when a user moves from one web page or website to another, where the string can represent information about browsing, such as which advertisement, page, or publisher sent the user to the receiving website.
  • Local Storage Objects: Also called flash cookies, these are sets of data that can be stored on your browser by a site or app. They can be used to maintain preferences, a history of usage, or even the state or settings of a site or an app.

Further information on cookies generally can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

Purpose of Cookies

Once you agree to the use of a particular type of cookie, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to your needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

How do we use cookies?

Cluas uses both first-party (set by us) and third-party cookies (set by others) for a number of purposes. We use first-party cookies that are necessary for the website to function the right way and for functionality that is necessary for services that are explicitly requested by the user for their session in accordance with the ePrivacy Regulations (S.I. 336/2011).

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and to help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Cluas Centre Ltd uses cookies to monitor website traffic and to enhance user experience. All the information collected will be anonymous and only used to help us improve our website and fine tune our online advertising campaigns.

Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. If you click on “That’s OK”, you consent to us using all cookies as described in this Policy. You can set preferences and disable the use of some cookies via the “Let me choose” window or via your browser, but please note that if you restrict cookies our website may no longer work properly. We do not seek consent for necessary cookies.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Manage Consent” button in the footer of this page, at any time and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block or delete cookies via your help screen. To find out more on how to manage cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that if all cookies are disabled, not all features of a website may operate as intended by you, or by us!

How to delete cookies

For further information on how to delete cookies, we recommend that you read the information provided at the following link: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/clear-cookies-installed.html.

What types of cookies do we use?

We group cookies on our website as follows:

Essential, including preference cookies

Essential Cookies are necessary for this site to function properly, for site security and to provides our services to you, e.g. your privacy preferences and enabling payments. You can only disable essential cookies via browser settings. If you do this it will affect your ability to use our services. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are also set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, filling in forms and paying for services or training.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

  • klaro – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
  • PHPSESSID – Session HTTP
    Preserves user session state across page requests

Functional cookies

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

  • CONSENT – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookie choices.
  • HSID – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
  • SID – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
  • SIDCC – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic.
  • SSID – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
  • wordpress_logged_in* – Persistent HTTP, expires 15 days
    After the logging, WordPress activates this cookie whose function is to indicate when it has been connected and who it is, being used by the WordPress interface.
  • wordpress_sec* – Persistent HTTP, expires 15 days
    These cookies are used to provide protection against hackers and store account details.
  • wp-settings* – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    These cookies are used by the Content management system to customise the user interface

Performance/Analytics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

These cookies provide information about how our sites are being used so we can improve your experience. Cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

  • _ga – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
  • _ga_* – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
  • _gat – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 day
    Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
  • _gcl_au – Persistent HTTP, expires 3 months
    This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website.
  • __gid – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 day
    This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
  • _utma – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
  • _utmb – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 day
    Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
  • _utmc – Session HTTP
    Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
  • _utmt – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 day
    Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.
  • _utmz – Persistent HTTP, expires 6 months
    Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.
  • __utm.gif – Session pixel
    Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer. Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
  • DV – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 hour
    This cookie is used by Google to collect information about how visitors use our site.

Advertising/Marketing/Targeting

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and
engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

These cookies may be set via our sites by third-party online service providers. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They collect information about your browsing habits on our and other websites, to make advertising relevant to you and your interests, to control how often those ads are shown to you and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Data relating to your use of our Website and other websites may be analysed to create profiles relating to you and for you (i.e. “profiling”). This means that certain assumptions may be made about what you may be interested in and this information may be used to display advertising to you and other Internet users with similar browsing patterns to you. You have certain rights in relation to this type of processing. If you object to this type of processing, you can manage and delete cookies.

They generally do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will still experience advertising but it will be less targeted advertising.

  • AEC – Persistent HTTP, expires 6 months
    This cookie is used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites.
  • APISID – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.
  • DSID – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 weeks
    This cookie is used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites so that the user’s ads personalization setting is respected accordingly.
  • IDE – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is used to show Google ads on non-Google sites.
  • NID – Persistent HTTP, expires 6 months
    This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users.
  • OTZ – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 month
    This cookie is used by Google Analytics to provide an analysis of website visitors in aggregate.
  • SAPISID – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.
  • SEARCH_SAMESITE – Persistent HTTP, expires 6 months
    Used for the correct transmission of data to Google.
  • UULE – Persistent HTTP, expires 6 hours
    This cookie sends precise location information from your browser to Google’s servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. The use of this cookie depends on your browser settings and whether you have chosen to have location turned on for your browser.
  • __Secure-1PAPISID – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
  • __Secure-1PSID – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
  • __Secure-1PSIDCC – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
  • __Secure-1PSIDTS – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    Google’s __Secure-1PSIDTS cookie collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It contains a unique identifier.
  • __Secure-3PAPISID – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
  • __Secure-3PSID – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
  • __Secure-3PSIDCC – Persistent HTTP, expires 1 year
    This cookie is used by Google to build a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting.
  • __Secure-3PSIDTS – Persistent HTTP, expires 2 years
    This cookie collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It is used to measure advertising effectiveness and deliver personalised content based on your interests. The cookie contains a unique identifier.
  • ar_debug – Session HTTP
    A Google cookie that checks whether a technical debugger-cookie is present.

Other third-party sites

Please note that some third party sites may place other cookies (over which we have no control) and you may wish to adjust your browser settings accordingly. For example if you are logged into a third party account when you visit this site you may see there are a number of other cookies (all with third party domains) set on this site.

Further Information

For information about Google Analytics please see “Safeguarding your data“.

Opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all sites
You can opt-out of making your site activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (gtag.js, ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) that is running on websites from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity.

For more information about Facebook
Please see How do social plugins work?

Cookies used for YouTube videos
If you would like further information about the cookies used in relation to YouTube videos, the YouTube privacy notice, including details about YouTube related cookies, is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB&gl=ie.

Targeted advertisements

For more information regarding targeted advertisements please see:

If you would like to find out more about advertising networks and affiliate programmes and how cookies are used for these purposes, please visit www.youronlinechoices.com. This is an information portal which is run by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for digital advertising, and will provide you with information about online behavioural advertising and the choices available to you.

Changes to the Cookie Policy

We may change our Cookie Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to the Cookie Policy, we will let you know by posting the changes to the Cookies Policy on the website. It is important that you review the changed Cookie Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changes Cookie Policy your only option will be to stop accessing the website.

If you have any queries or concerns about our cookie please contact us first at Cluas Centre Ltd, 32 Greenmount Office Park, Off Parnell Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6W, Ireland.