Cookie Usage

Cookie Name

Domain Name

Purpose of cookie

1P_JAR

google.com

Google. Com & Google.ie - they are used to show personalised advertisements (ads) based on previous visits to website.

APISID

google.com

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. Its main purpose is targeting/ advertising.

CONSENT  

google.com

Google. Com & Google.ie – Cookie Law requires users’ informed consent before storing cookies on user’s device and or tracking them. This cookie is used to save the user's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. Lifespan: 20 years

HSID

google.com

Google. Com & Google.ie - this is used to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. Security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorised parties, SID cookie contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account IF and most recent sign-in-time. This combination of cookies allows Google to block many types of attack such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.

NID

google.com

Google. Com & Google.ie - this contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s Safe Search filter turned on.

SAPISID

google.com

Google. Com & Google.ie - this is used to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

SID

google.com

Security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorised parties, SID cookie contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account IF and most recent sign-in-time. This combination of cookies allows Google to block many types of attack such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.

SIDCC

google.com

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

SSID  

google.com

Google. Com & Google.ie – this cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

DV

google.com

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

ARRAffinity

www.smincw.ie

This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.

__cfduid

Embedly.com

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic, this is a infrastructure-related necessary cookie.

em_cdn_uid

cdn.embedly.com

Embedly is used to embed rich content into our web site. This cookie measures the number of times an embedded element from a third party service has been used. More info: http://embed.ly /legal/privacy.

lang

cdn.syndication .twimg.com

Session-based cookie used for Sign-in

GPS
PREF
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
YSC
remote_sid

.youtube.com

YouTube uses cookies to help with the user experience when going from our website to YouTube

https://platform .twitter.com

platform.twitter .com

local storage

https://youtube .com

youtube.com

local storage

-ga

twitter.com

Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users and to generate statistical data.

eu_cn
external_referer
guest-id  

twitter.com

These cookies are set by Twitter for various reasons such as to monitor referral links and login status, to identify you to Twitter if you do not have a Twitter account, to save a unique anonymous id for each website visitor, to collect data and to use aggregated button usage.

personalization_id

twitter.com

This is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.

rweb_optin

twitter.com

This browse and configures new interface of twitter with your device

tfw_exp

twitter.com

Used by Twitter to provide embedded content that is displayed in the site.