NIBRT Cookie Policy
Your current consent applies to the following domains: nibrt.ie
This website (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by NIBRT (hereinafter “us” or “we”).
What is a website ‘Cookie’?
Cookies are small pieces of data that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. We use them for the following reasons:
- Remember information about you, so you don’t have to give it to us again.
- Help us understand how people are using our website, so we can make it better.
- To use third party tools and software such as Google Analytics
If you use the social media buttons on our website and allow cookies from the companies that own these platforms, they will collect information about you. Social media buttons could be a link to a Youtube video, LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter) or other social media channels.
What type of Cookies do we use and why?
It is worth noting that when you first visit this website, you will see a message informing you that our website uses cookies and how to manage your preferences which when completed sets a cookie recording your preferences.
- Session Cookies: (also called transient cookies) are erased when you close your web browser. Session cookies are stored in temporary memory and are not retained after the browser is closed.
- Stored Cookies: (also called persistent or permanent cookies) are longer-term cookies. These cookies are stored by the browser within a file on the user's device even after the browser is closed.
- Necessary Cookies: (which can be either session or stored cookies) help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- First Party Cookies: these can be necessary/unnecessary and either session or stored cookies. These cookies are issued by NIBRT. We use these cookies for the following reasons:
- User authentication, to determine if you are logged into our website Content Management System (CMS).
- Cookie preference.
- For online payments via Stripe.
- Third Party Cookies: these can be either session or stored cookies. Firstly, it is important to note that a third-party cookie originates from a different domain. We use these cookies for the following reasons:
- Google Analytics also called ‘Performance’ and/or ‘Statistical’ and they recognise you on subsequent visits. We use cookies to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to our website. We will not attempt to personally identify visitors from their IP addresses. Users may opt-out of Google Universal Analytics use of cookies by visiting the Google Universal Analytics opt-out page.
- Social networks such as Facebook, X, YouTube.
- We may occasionally run ad-campaigns via Google Ads.
- By default we discourage the use of Third Party ‘Marketing Cookies’ to the very best of our ability.
Consent and cookies
We automatically set cookies that are strictly necessary. We do not need your consent to use them. You cannot change these or opt-out because these are needed for the website to work properly.
For all other cookies, we need your consent. We use cookies to save your cookie preferences. You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the Manage Consent box.
Cookie usage is governed by the ePrivacy Directive (Cookie law) and GDPR you can find out more here.
What are the exact cookies do we use?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies make our website work and keep it secure. They make sure that only humans complete forms, not bots. These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features. For example, session management, making secure payments and complying with data protection and electronic privacy legislation. We can set these cookies without needing your consent as they are essential.
|
Purpose |
Cookies |
Provider |
Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Store cookie settings |
viewed_cookie_policy, cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary, cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics, cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional, cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement, cookielawinfo-checkbox-others, cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance, |
NIBRT, first party |
11 months 11 months
11 months
11 months
1 year
11 months
11 months |
|
Prevent bots |
_GRECAPTCHA |
|
5 months 27 days |
|
Session management |
__hssrc |
Hubspot |
Session |
|
Process credit card payments |
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid |
Stripe |
1 year 30 minutes |
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies collect information about your use of our website. For example which pages you visit. They are essential in measuring what the most frequently visited pages are and making sure that the website works as it should. The data collected by the cookies is all pseudonymised. This means this information cannot be used to identify you. We do not capture information like IP addresses, demographics or your interests. We will get information about what county your device is in, what type of device you are using, how long you stay on website pages and how many website pages you visit.
|
Purpose |
Cookies |
Provider |
Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Analytics |
_ga, _gid, _gat_gtag_UA_xxxxxxxxx_x, __gads |
NIBRT, first party |
2 years 1 day 1 minute 1 year 24 days |
|
View videos |
vuid |
Vimeo |
2 years |
|
View videos |
CONSENT |
YouTube |
2 years |
|
Analytics |
__hstc Hubspotutk |
Hubspot |
5 months 27 days 5 months 27 days |
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember the choices you've made and provide enhanced, more personal features.
|
Purpose |
Cookies |
Provider |
Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
UserMatchHistory, Lang, Bcookie, Bscookie, Lidc, li_gc, AnalyticsSyncHistory |
|
30 days Session 2 years 2 years 1 day 2 years 1 month |
|
Audio player |
sc_anonymous_id |
Soundcloud |
never |
|
Bot management |
__cf_bm |
NIBRT (Cloudflare) |
30 mins |
|
Analytics |
__hssc |
Hubspot |
30 mins |
YouTube Cookies
These cookies are used to allow embedded YouTube video to be played on our website. They can also collect anonymous data about your web browser to display targeted advertising to you across the web.
|
Cookie Group |
Cookies |
Provider |
Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Playing of videos on YouTube |
YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, yt-remote-device-id, yt-remote-connected-devices, yt.innertube::requests, yt.innertube::nextId |
|
Session, 180 days Never Never
Never Never |
Tracking Cookies
Tracking cookies remember the choices you've made and provide enhanced, more personal features.
|
Cookie Group |
Cookies |
Provider |
Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Tracking |
test_cookie GoogleAdServingTest |
Doubleclick (Google) |
15 minutes Session |
|
No description available |
m |
Not available |
2 years |
What do I need to know about Security and Cookies?
- The Cookies we place on your device do not collect personal data. They are used for performance, interaction and statistical purposes.
- Cookies do not compromise the security of your computer.
- While we try to limit our use of third party cookies - they are in some cases necessary to our offering. It is important to note that a third-party cookie originates from a different domain (i.e. the service being used for example YouTube or Vimeo and we would always advise you make yourself familiar with their cookie policies and practices.
- Cookie usage is governed by the ePrivacy Directive (Cookie law) and GDPR you can find out more here.
Data transfer outside the European Economic Area (EEA)
On our Website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
Google will analyse your use of our Website on our behalf. To this purpose we use, among others, the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Google in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. the referring URL, our webpages visited by you, your browser type, your language settings, your operating system, your screen resolution) will be transmitted to a server of Google in the US, where it will be stored and analysed. The respective results will then be made available to us in anonymized form. Your usage data will not be connected to your full IP address during this process. We have activated on our Website the IP anonymizing function offered by Google, which will delete the last 8 digits (type IPv4) or the last 80 bits (type IPv6) of your IP address. Moreover, Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures that an adequate level of data protection is maintained with respect to the processing of data by Google in the US.
You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Plugin or by administrating your consents in the above table, in which case an opt-out cookie will be placed. Both options will prevent the application of web analysis only as long as you use the browser on which you installed the plugin and do not delete the opt-out cookie.
Further information on Google Analytics is available in the Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Privacy and Data Protection Guidelines of Google Analytics and in the Google Privacy Policy.
How can I control the cookie preferences?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the "Settings" button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the "Manage Consent" tab on your screen or via this Cookie Policy. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
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/delete the cookies.
To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Social Media Channels
If you are logged into your social media account when you access our websites, then the social media account provider may be able to associate your account with the pages on our websites that you visit. They do this for their own purposes, not for us.
You should make yourself aware of the privacy policies of the social media providers that are present on our website.
Find out more about the policies of these social media channels below.
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Channel |
Privacy |
Cookies |
GDPR |
Opt-out options |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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X |
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Youtube |
Your rights
This Cookie Policy forms part of our overall Privacy Policy. You can find out about your data protection rights and how to contact us to submit a rights request. We will process your request and if you are not satisfied you have a right to complain to the Data Protection Commission.
Last updated October 2023
