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 the Cork Convention Bureau’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 and providing access to features such as your profile and purchases, member-only resources, and other secure areas of the 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

Source

Expiry

Purpose

privacy_statement

Cork Convention Bureau

365 days

This cookie controls our banners related to privacy updates.

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Cork Convention Bureau

365 days

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 table has more information about these cookies.

Cookie Name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

How to Block

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Google Analytics

365 Days

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use https://www.corkconventionbureau.com. 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).

Open the Cookie Consent Tool to set your preferences or delete these cookies through your browser settings.

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Google Analytics

365 Days

To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

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 for such activities such as surveys, to make payment in currency other than Euros or for job applications. 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

  1. Consent Tool
    The Cork Convention Bureau
    Cookie Consent Tool can be utilised to customise your cookie preferences. The tool will record when you have consented to our cookie policy and will ask for consent again every 90 days to ensure users stay up-to-date with changes to our cookie and privacy policies. The consent tool specifically controls the marketing cookies and analytical cookies set by using our primary public website https://www.corkconventionbureau.com. Essential cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked from our website.
  2. Using Your Browser
    Many of the cookies used on our website and through emails can be enabled or disabled through our consent tool or by disabling the cookies through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser unless manually completed through your browser function.

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?

For more information, feel free to contact Cork Convention Bureau’s Compliance officer at anne.cahill@corkconventionureau.com

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