Diabetes Ireland Cookie policy
Our website, like most websites, uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, including using the online shop and donation services and also allows us to improve our site.
By using cookies, the website is essentially able to ‘remember’ you during a single visit to the site (known as a session cookie) or for repeat visits (known as persistent cookies).
By continuing to browse the site, we will assume that you agree to our use of cookies as set out below.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser, the hard drive of your computer or your mobile device. Each cookie is unique to your web browser.
We use the following cookies on our site:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use the shopping cart function in our online store.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. This information is anonymous – we do not collect anything that would identify a user. We combine individual user data with the rest of the visitor data and examine it as a whole to build up a picture of how the site is performing.
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Examples of the types of cookies we use on our site include Google Analytics cookies such as:
Targeting Cookies
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| __utma | Is a Google Analytics cookie used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | |
| 2 years from set/update | ||
| __utmb | Is a Google Analytical cookie used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | |
| 30 mins from set/update | ||
| __utmc | Is a Google Analytical cookie used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | |
| End of browser session | ||
| __utmz | Is a Google Analytical cookie used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | |
| 6 months from set/update |
www.diabetes.ie
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| These cookies are 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. | ||
| _atuvs | ||
| 30 Mins | ||
| _atuvc | ||
| These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. | ||
| _atrfs | ||
| 2 Years |
Third Party Cookies
Addthis.com
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| bt2 | These Addthis.com third party cookies are used to access functions like print, email, Facebook, Twitter and others. | |
| di2 | ||
| loc | 8 Months | |
| Mus | ||
| na_id | These Addthis.com third party cookies used to access functions like print, email, Facebook, Twitter and others | |
| na_tc | ||
| Uid | 2 Years | |
| Um | ||
| Uvc | These Addthis.com third party cookies are used to access functions like print, email, Facebook, Twitter and others | |
| Vc | ||
| Xtc | 2 Years |
Doubleclick.net
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| DSID | These DoubleClick third party cookies are used to improve advertising. | |
| IDE | 12 Days | |
| Id | These DoubleClick third party cookies is used to improve advertising. | |
| 2 Years |
Google.ie
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| AID | ||
| APISID | ||
| HSID | ||
| NID | These are Google cookies typically written to the browser when accessing Google services | 2 Years |
| SAPISID | ||
| SID | ||
| SIDCC | ||
| SSID | These are Google cookies typically written to the browser when accessing Google services | |
| 2 Months | ||
| UULE | ||
| This cookie is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | ||
| _ga | ||
| 2 Years |
Vimeo.com
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| These cookies are usually associated with Quantcast, a digital advertising company. They provide website rankings, and the data they collect is also used for audience segmentation and targeted advertising | ||
| _qca | ||
| 1 Year | ||
| continuous_play_v3 | ||
| player | These Vimeo third party cookies are used to improve usability of vimeo services | |
| 2 Years | ||
| vuid | ||
| This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics. It is a variation of the __utmt cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | ||
| __utmt_player | ||
| 10 Minutes |
Youtube.com
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| APISID | ||
| HSID | ||
| LOGIN_ | Youtube third party cookies used to improve user experience | |
| INFO | 2 Years | |
| PREF | ||
| SAPISID | ||
| SID | Youtube third party cookies used to improve user experience | |
| SSID | ||
| 1 Year | ||
| Remote | ||
| _sid | ||
| SID | ||
| Youtube third party cookie used to improve user experience | End of | |
| VISITOR_ | Browser | |
| INFO1_LIVE | Session | |
| YSC wide |
Third Party Cookies
| Third party | Policy location |
|---|---|
| YouTube | https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ |
| https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ | |
| Google Analytics | https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ |
| https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ | |
| https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514 | |
| https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511 | |
| DoubleClick | https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2839090?hl=en-GB |
| AddThis | http://www.addthis.com/privacy |
| Vimeo | https://vimeo.com/privacy |
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Diabetes Ireland does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these cookies. Relevant third parties are linked below.
What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set
If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, www.aboutcookies.org contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
- To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
- For more information on how to control cookies, please refer to: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html
- For more information on how to delete cookies, please refer to: http://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/