What are cookies
Cookies are created when your browser loads this website (the “Service”). The Service sends information which is saved in a small text file (known as a cookie). Cookies are stored in your web browser for various periods of time, this time can range from the duration of your browsing session (session cookie) to several months (persistent cookie) and allows the us or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful to you. Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
How we use cookies
When you use and access this Service, we may place a number of cookies in your web browser, we may use cookies for the following purposes:
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested only for this Service.
- recording how many people (anonymous) in general are using the Service, this always us to ensure there is enough capacity and the Service runs fast enough to give the user a smooth experience.
- analysing anonymous data to give us a better understanding of how people use and interact with the Service so that we can constantly strive to improve it.
How to manage cookies
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the “Help” pages of your web browser, however if you delete or refuse to accept cookies then you might not be able to use all the features provided on the service. To learn more about cookies you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ which has a comprehensive guide on them and on how to restrict / delete them for most common browsers.
What cookies do we use?
We use our own cookie to make the help make the Service run better, details of this is listed below
CookieName: ASP.NET_SessionId
Reason: Enables the server to recognise the user in their current browser session,
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
CookieName: _acceptCookie18
Reason: Records that the user has accepted the cookie policy so it is not shown again
Expires: 1 year
If we show a twitter feed on our Service then Twitter will use their own cookie for remembering the user’s language
CookieName: lang
Reason: Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
If we use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use the Service then the following will cookies will be created
CookieName: _ga
Reason: records statistical data on how you use the Service
Expires: 2 years
CookieName: _gat, _gid
Reason: records statistical data on how you use the Service
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
We use a Third party control to enable users to share articles with their friends
CookieName: _stid
Reason: records user browser for return visits
Expires: 1 year
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
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Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
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Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
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Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
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Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
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This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: bridgetowncollege@wwetb.ie