Our website, www.taylorandcolledge.ie, is operated by Dr. Oetker Ireland Limited (company number ).
Where we use “we“, “our” or “us” in this notice, we mean Dr. Oetker Ireland Limited unless we say otherwise.
Where we use “our site” in this notice, we mean www.taylorandcolledge.ie.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognises those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling the site to recognise you. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies (we explain how you can do this later on in this Notice), our site will set cookies as soon as you visit it.
2. How and why we use cookies
We use cookies on our site to:
- recognise you whenever you visit our site
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
- allow you to navigate between pages efficiently
- measure how you use our site so that we can update and improve it to give you the best possible experience.
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain information from which you can easily be identified, such as your name. However, we do collect some personal data relating to your computer or other electronic device, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information.
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on our site. The exception to this is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested.
When you open our site in your browser a cookie pop up message will be displayed and this will ask you for your consent for non-essential cookies to be placed on your device. If you do not click to accept cookies but you continue to use our site without disabling cookies, we will consider this to mean that you accept our use of these non-essential cookies. A record of your acceptance will be stored in a functional cookie for 30 days, after which the cookie will expire and the cookie pop up message will be displayed again.
You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this Cookie Notice.
3. Essential cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
4. Essential third party cookies
Third parties cookies are used to provide important functionality to our site, as well as collecting anonymous user data for analysis.
5. Functional cookies
These non-essential cookies allow our site to remember choices you make. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.
6. Third party performance cookies
These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our site.
We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages they visited.
We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- The pages you visit on our site
- The actions you perform on our site
- How long you spend on each page
- How you reached our site
- What you click on while you’re visiting our site
- Information about the browser and device you use to navigate our site, (including an anonymised IP address).
- We don’t collect or store any personal information (for example your name or address) that can be used to identify who you are.
Google analytics cookies:
- _ga: is used to distinguish users and expires in 2 years.
- _gid: is used to distinguish users and expires in 24 hours.
- _gat: is used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. this cookie expires in 1 minute.
- AMP_TOKEN: Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a client ID from AMP Client ID Service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a client ID from AMP client ID service. This cookie lasts for between 30 seconds to 1 year.
- _gac_<property-id>: Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. This cookie lasts for 90 days.
More details about how Google Analytics collects and processes data are available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
7. Third-party marketing cookies and social advertising
Dr. Oetker Ireland Ltd. has relationships with online advertisers and social media networks (our marketing partners). These partners use cookies and similar technologies for marketing purposes and may serve you with targeted advertising about Dr. Oetker Ireland Ltd. while you are on a third-party website, at our request and only with your consent.
You can choose to ‘decline’ the third-party cookies that enable this type of marketing at any time. We encourage you to learn more about how companies use advertising on social media and how to adjust your marketing preferences by checking their privacy statement and opt out options.
8. Where to find more information
You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether sites can set cookies on your computer. More information about cookies and how to manage them, specific to your browser, can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies notice or how we use cookies on our site, please contact us at service@oetker.ie.