Our use of cookies
We place cookies on your device when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files (pieces of software) that, when placed on your device, help to make our website work properly. They can also be used to provide information to us and third parties about what you browse on our site and to help us to improve user experience on the site.
This Cookie Notice explains in more detail what specific cookies we use, what information is collected by them and for what purposes, and how long they last on your device.
Note that certain cookies we place on your device are what are called Strictly Necessary Cookies – they are essential to make our website work properly. Our legal basis for placement of these cookies is our legitimate interests in ensuring that our website works properly.
Note that other cookies we use (what are called non-essential cookies) are only placed on your device if you specifically consent to this. This means that these non-essential cookies are defaulted to the “off” position in our Manage Cookies tool and you have to scroll them to the “on” position or click “Accept All Cookies” in order for them to be placed on your device.
More details about the cookies we use
The table below provides more information about all of the cookies that we use and why.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting. Cookies are used to monitor website traffic and enhance your experience of our website. Users can set their browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. Visitors can use most of our website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use or access certain of our online services. We use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around websites and use the websites’ features, such as accessing secure websites or secure areas of websites.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
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transdevireland.ie | eupubconsent, evo1ashudb, OptanonAlertBoxClosed, OptanonConsent | First Party | 365 Days, Session, 90 Days, 90 Days |
cookielaw.org | __cfduid | Third Party | 30 Days |
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow website to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. Other examples include cookies that keep track of your progress when filling an online form.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
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vimeo.com | vuid | Third Party | 3 Months |
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use Google Analytics cookies for this purpose. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
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transdevireland.ie | _ga, _gid | First Party | 3 Months, 1 Day |
transdevireland.ie | _gat | Third Party | A few seconds |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. You can also find more information about how to opt-out of other targeting cookies by visiting: www.youronlinechoices.com.
youtube.com | CONSENT, GPS, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC | Third Party | 6108 Days, A few seconds, 3 Months, Session |
doubleclick.net | test_cookie | Third Party | A few seconds |
Third party cookies
You will see in the above table that we use certain third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by someone else for their own purposes, e.g. for collecting information about your use of their service or for directing personalised advertising to you when you browse the internet. When you use our website, you may encounter linked content (e.g. a link to a third-party website) or embedded content (e.g. a YouTube video embedded on our website). These third-party websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites, even if they are linked from our website and you should review the cookies notices of these websites for more information.
How to manage and delete cookies
You can use our Manage Cookies tool to manage the placement of non-essential cookies on your device. This tool will record your consents. It will ask you for consent again quarterly, to ensure that you are up to date on any changes to our Cookie Notice and/or Privacy Notice. Essential cookies cannot be disabled using the tool, nor can the tool be used to block cookies placed from any third-party websites that are linked from our site.
Manage Cookies
You can also manage cookies from your device’s browser settings. To do this, you will need to follow the instructions in the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” menus of your device’s browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete any cookies already placed on your device unless you make these deletions manually using your browser function.
More information
For more information, please contact our person responsible for data protection, at dataprotection@transdev.ie.