Cookie Policy

Last updated: 23 January 2019


By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites to improve your experience. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well. For more information on cookies, please visit this article.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

The cookies on our website are used for various reasons that may include:  

  • Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited

  • Personalising content that you see on our website

  • Our website analytics (see below)

  • Re-marketing our services to you

  • Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests

  • Allowing you to share content with social network


WHAT COOKIES WE USE


We use the following type of cookies on our website:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functionality. 

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements. 

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to remember a user’s choices, such as their language and other personal choices while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.

Media Cookies

These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our organisation.

Session Cookies

These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. Session cookies expire after a browser session and are not stored long term. 

Persistent Cookies

These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website.

DISABLING COOKIES


Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies - see your browsers settings or help pages for more info. However, it is important to note that disabling cookies is extremely like to result in many features and functionality of this site. It is generally recommended that cookies are not disabled.

If you do decide to disable cookies, please refer to the following pages for common broswers:

THIRD PARTY COOKIES


In some instances we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties - these are detailed below:

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website in order to help us understand how you use our site and ways that we can improve your experience. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often people visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyse traffic, re-market our products and services to users, improve our marketing/advertising, and to improve our website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website.


For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit the Google Analytics Privacy Page.

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out on this page.

Squarespace

This website is built and hosted on the Squarespace platform. Squarespace may use cookies which are necessary for the proper operation of their system (e.g. attributing comments on a blog post, or putting a product into your shopping cart), and to track the usage of this website in order to help us understand how the site is being used – and ultimately provide an improved user experience. For more information please refer to Squarespace's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 

Facebook "Visitor Action Pixels"

We use the “visitor action pixels” from Facebook Inc (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are based in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”)) on our website.


This allows user behaviour to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, which is why we are informing you, based on our knowledge of the situation. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes. You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by contacting the following address: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.


Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation.

CONTACT US


For more information about our Cookie Policy and Privacy Notice please contact us by email at FurtherEd@marinocollege.ie.