COOKIE NOTICE OF NSAI
COOKIE NOTICE OF NSAI Last Updated : 6th July 2021
We are the National Standards Authority of Ireland.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this Cookie Notice
Email : NEPADMIN@nsai.ie
Address : 1 Swift Square, Northwood, Santry, Dublin 9, Ireland D09 A0E4
Telephone: +353 1 807 3800
Our website is Https://NSAINEP.ie
This Cookie Notice explains how we use Cookies on our website, NSAINEP.ie. It is a declaration of the cookies that are active on our website, the purpose of the cookies and what they track. This Cookie Notice also provides you with information on how to opt out of the cookies being used.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser by websites that you visit. They are widely used for a variety of purposes including to make websites work or to remember you from one visit to the next.
First-party cookies are directly stored by the website (or domain) you visit. These cookies allow website owners to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and perform other functions that provide a good user experience. An example of a first party cookie is one that is stored on your browser when you visit a site and login. The next time you visit, the website will detect the cookie in your browser, and you will not need to login again.
Third-Party cookies are created by domains that are not the website (or domain) that you are visiting. These are usually used for online-advertising purposes and placed on a website through a script or tag. A third-party cookie is accessible on your browser to any website that loads the third-party server’s code.
First-party cookies are supported by all browsers and can be blocked or deleted by the user. Third-party cookies are supported by all browsers, but many modern browsers block third-party cookies by default.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE AND WHY?
We use the following categories of Cookies on this Website:
| COOKIE | PURPOSE |
| The “Cookie” Cookie | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on NSAINEP.ie. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. We treat the “cookie” cookie as a necessary cookie (see below) and it is refreshed every six months. |
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | These cookies are necessary to ensure the website functions properly. You cannot reject these cookies using our cookie management tool. You can control these cookies from your browser settings using the reject all cookies settings. Some functionalities on the website won’t work if necessary cookies are rejected. We use necessary cookies to manage your visit to the website and to implement online banking functionality associated with Secure Customer Authentication. |
| Functional Cookies | Functional cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in. |
| Performance Cookies | These are cookies which gather analytics on the usage of our website including distinguishing unique users, remembering the number and time of previous visits, remembering traffic source information and determining the start and end of a session. |
| Targeting Cookies | Targeting cookies are set by external advertisers to learn about a website visitor's overall online behaviours, such as websites they frequently visit, purchases, and interests that they have shown on various websites. It allows internet advertisers to provide targeted advertising content based on user profiles. |
You can adjust your browser settings to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer.
COOKIE DETAILS
Further information on the cookies we use on NSAINEP.ie and how to manage them is set out below.
| COOKIE | PURPOSE | RETENTION | DOMAIN NAME | ||
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | |||||
| ASP.NET | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Session duration | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| Functional Cookies | |||||
| __atuvc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. | 3 months | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __atuvc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. | 1 year | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __atuvs | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This cookie ensures the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared. | A few seconds | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __atuvs | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This cookie ensures the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared. | A few seconds | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| Performance Cookies | |||||
| __utmc | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. | Session | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __utmt | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after a few seconds. | a few seconds | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __utmz | This cookie keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keyword was used, and where they were in the world when they accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __utmb | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site. | a few seconds | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| __utma | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. | 2 years | NSAINEP.ie | ||
| _utmv | This is used on sites which make use of the user-defined report in Google Analytics, and have coded something for some custom segmentation. | 2 years | |||
| Targeting Cookies | |||||
| loc | This cookie stores the visitors’ geolocation to record location of the sharer. | 1 year | addthis.com | ||
| uvc | This cookie tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis. | 1 year | addthis.com | ||
| __atrfs | This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. | A few seconds | s7.addthis.com | ||
| xtc | This domain is owned by AddThis. AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted behavioral advertising. | 1 year | addthis.com | ||
| __atuvs | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This cookie ensures the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared. | A few seconds | s7.addthis.com | ||
| __atuvc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. | 1 year | s7.addthis.com | ||
MANAGING COOKIES
Our website has a cookie management tool that facilitates acceptance and rejection of cookies. The Cookie management tool can be accessed using the “Cookie Notice” tab in the bottom left corner of our website.
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies on all websites or not. Different browsers have different settings available to you. Below we have provided links to popular browsers on how to access these settings. Generally, your browser will offer the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“Third Party Cookies”), or those from specific websites:
- Managing cookies on MS Edge
Some third-party cookies drop information into your local storage or browser cache. While we have made efforts to limit the use of cookies that use local storage, it is a good idea to clear your browser cache(sometimes referred to as your browsing history) on a regular basis.
- How to clear the Firefox Cache
- How to clear the Safari Cache
- How to clear the Chrome Cache
- How to clear the Edge Cache
AMENDMENTS TO THIS COOKIE NOTICE
We will post any changes to our Cookie Notice on the Website and when doing so will change the effective date at the top of this Cookie Notice.