UpDate Digital – Cookie Notice
Introduction
To make this website work properly, and to provide the most relevant products and services to our site visitors and clients, we place small data files called cookies on your device. This policy provides you with information about cookies and how to control them for this website.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party (set by UpDate Digital’s website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.
Cookies help us improve your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can improve how we serve our website users and clients.
Cookies Used on This Site
Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our website. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled. The table below provides more information about these cookies.
Cookie Name: privacy_statement
Source: UpDate Digital
Expiry: 365 days
Purpose: This cookie controls our banners related to privacy updates.
Cookie Name: privacy_statement_count
Source: UpDate Digital
Expiry: 365 days
Purpose: This cookie allows us to hide the privacy notice banner once you have had an opportunity to view it at least three times.
Google Tag Manager is a script (tool) that facilitates the installation of non-essential Google Analytics Cookies (see below) and marketing cookies. It is not a cookie, it is essential to the proper functioning our site, and it does not have an expiration date.
Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymise IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymised data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. The following has more information about these cookies.
Cookie Name: _ga
Source: Google Analytics
Expiry: 365 Days
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use https://www.updatedigital.ie. We use the information to help us improve our site through the collection of anonymized information (e.g. number of visitors to website and where visitors have come to the site from).
How to Block: Open the Cookie Consent Tool to set your preferences or delete these cookies through your browser settings.
Cookie Name: _gid
Source: Google Analytics
Expiry: 365 Days
Purpose: To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
How to Block: You may install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by going here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Third Party Websites’ Cookies
When using our website, you may be directed to other websites such as ones belonging to clients of ours, both past and present. These websites may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from our website.
How to Control and Delete Cookies
Cookies that Have Been Set in the Past
Collection of your data from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked.
Questions?
Feel free to contact us at privacy@updatedigital.ie.