Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website can place on your computer or mobile device to store information. A cookie may store information which relates to your patterns of browsing on a website or to remember these patterns next time you visit the site. Cookies are most commonly used by websites to analyse the performance of the site and to recognise you on your return visits.
Most cookies do not store personal information from which you can be identified, unless the website requests this information and you choose to submit it.
How does AskaboutIreland.ie use cookies?
Askaboutireland.ie uses cookies to collect information about the ways in which visitors use the website. This information is used to make improvements to the overall user experience. Information collected includes the time and duration of the visit, how visitors arrive at the website, the number of pages viewed and the visitor’s general location.
Askaboutireland.ie does not attempt to personally identify visitors from the information stored in cookies. The cookies do not pose a security risk to your computer.
If cookies are disabled from a visitor’s web browser, this does not significantly impact on the functionality of the Ask about Ireland site.
What types of cookies does AskaboutIreland.ie use?
Statistics cookies
Askaboutireland.ie uses the popular Google Analytics toolkit to generate statistics about the use of the site. This information is entirely anonymous and used only to monitor the use and popularity of the various parts of the site.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies simplify the use of the user-generated content upload features, by saving user credentials. These credentials are not shared with any third party. Of course, we encourage users to use different user names and passwords for all the web services they use.
How to disable cookies and further information
More detailed information on the use of cookies and how to opt out of different types of cookies is available on www.aboutcookies.org. Information on how Google analytics uses cookies is available at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/cookie-usage
If you would like further information about the cookies’ policy on Askaboutireland.ie, please email librariesdevelopment@lgma.ie.