Cookies are small files of text, typically of letters and numbers, which contain information and are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They do a lot of things including helping us understand how our website is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. Cookies also help us identify other products and services which are move relevant to you and your interests.
The type of cookies used on most websites can generally be put into one of these categories: Strictly Necessary, Functionality and Targeting.
These cookies are essential and allow you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for can’t be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you that is used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
Examples of the strictly necessary cookies we use:
| Cookie Name | Description of Purpose | Cookie Duration |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | Session |
Functional cookies help preform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collected feedback and other third-party features.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source etc.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
| Cookie Name | Description of Purpose | Cookie Duration |
| Google Analytics | The _ga cookie installed by Google Analytics calculates visitor, session, and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _gid | The _gid cookie installed by Google Analytics stores information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 Day |
| Google Analytics User ID | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 Minute |
Users can set their browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. You can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise Google Display Network ads using the Ads settings (https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ ads or opt out using Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
We continually update our technology so that we can provide you with the most efficient and useful tools. These updates include how we use cookies, placement of new cookies as well as the extension to older cookies to make them more efficient so that we can provide you with a better service. This list will be updated from time to time, you should check back on a regular basis for changes.
What happens to Cookies that have been downloaded in the past? You can delete existing cookies from your browser otherwise they will remain until they expire. Once you have disabled a cookie, we will stop using it to gather information.
You may optout of receiving cookies by following the links in the table above or changing settings on your web browser. Usually, you can decide to accept or reject cookies on a case by case basis, or you can decide to block all cookies. Check your browser’s help section for specific details about how to disable cookies. Please note if you opt-out of receiving cookies some parts of our website may no longer work properly.
Good online resources for additional information about cookies and how to block them are;
www.aboutcookies.org and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/
