TheIrishInsider’s Cookie Policy

Understanding Cookies

Cookies are small, typically encoded text files that assist your browser in navigating through a website. Generated by the site you’re browsing, these files are accepted and processed by your computer’s browser software and stored on your computer’s hard drive or browser. Cookies contain information transferred to your computer’s hard drive, aiding in providing a seamless browsing experience and enabling us to enhance our site.

Our Use of Cookies

Our websites utilize cookies to differentiate you from other users, ensuring a pleasant browsing experience and aiding our efforts to enhance our site. By continuing to explore the site, you consent to our use of cookies.

Types of Cookies and Their Usage

  • Strictly Necessary/Essential Cookies: Vital for website operation, enabling features like secure login, shopping cart usage, and e-billing services.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: Help us recognize and count visitor numbers and observe their navigation through our website, enhancing user experience.
  • Functionality Cookies: Recognize you upon return to our website, enabling personalized content and remembering your preferences.
  • Targeting Cookies: Record your website visit, pages viewed, and links followed to make our website and advertising more relevant to your interests.

Specific Cookies Employed

  • Google Analytics: Utilized for understanding how you engage with our site, tracking aspects like session duration and pages visited for more information visit Google Analytics page.
  • Google AdSense/DFP: Uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve relevant ads and limit ad repetition for more information visit Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
  • CraftCMS (Pixel & Tonic, Inc): Primarily used for security authentication and performance. For more information visit CraftCMS (Pixel & Tonic, Inc)
  • Chartbeat2: Used for real-time analytics, distinguishing between new and returning visitors. For more information visit Chartbeat2

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Third-Party Cookies

Third-party analytics are utilized to track and measure site usage, aiding us in creating engaging content. These cookies may track aspects like session duration and pages visited, which assist us in understanding how we can improve the site for you. Note that third parties (including advertising networks and external service providers like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We may use the following cookies, internal and third party.

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Email Newsletters, Surveys, Forms, and Site Preference Cookies

Cookies may be used in association with email newsletters, surveys, forms, and site preferences to remember if you are registered and to show relevant notifications and results.

Site preference cookies.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Social Media

Social media buttons and/or plugins on our site allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. Social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to their data.

Disabling Cookies

If you wish to disable cookies, you need to alter your website browser settings to reject them. How this is done will depend on your browser. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit.

Limit tracking in mobile apps.

To opt out of targeted ads on your mobile device

Android Google Settings will depend on your mobile device: Settings > Google in the Accounts section > Ads in the Privacy section > Select “Opt out of interest based ads”More info available on Google Support Page

What Happens if Cookies Are Disabled?

Depending on which cookies are disabled, the website may not operate properly. If all cookies are disabled, you will be unable to complete a purchase on our sites.

Your Data and Storage

The Irish Insider website stores email addresses if the contact form is used, stored in a database on the used server. The Irish Insider app user’s Gmail or Facebook ID for login purposes on the Server. You can request your data to be removed at any time by emailing [email protected] The Irish Insider do not currently store any other data.

Your Consent

By continuing to navigate our site, it is assumed that you consent to our cookie usage. If there’s something you’re unsure about, it’s generally safer to leave cookies enabled to ensure it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

For further clarity or inquiries, feel free to get in touch with us.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need more information.