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COOKIES POLICY

 

We use cookies to help improve your experience of www.brendagilhooly.com
A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site.

 

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)

  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)

  • Pass data to advertising networks

  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

  • Pay sales commissions

 

This cookie policy is part of Brenda Gilhooly's privacy policy, and covers the use of cookies between your device and our site. We also provide basic information on third-party services we may use, who may also use cookies as part of their service, though they are not covered by our policy.

 

If you don’t wish to accept cookies from us, you should instruct your browser to refuse cookies from www.brendagilhooly.com with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.

 

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on your device when you visit, typically containing information about the website itself, a unique identifier that allows the site to recognise your web browser when you return, additional data that serves the purpose of the cookie, and the lifespan of the cookie itself.

 

Cookies are used to enable certain features (eg. logging in), to track site usage (eg. analytics), to store your user settings (eg. timezone, notification preferences), and to personalise your content (eg. advertising, language).

 

Cookies set by the website you are visiting are normally referred to as “first-party cookies”, and typically only track your activity on that particular site. Cookies set by other sites and companies (ie. third parties) are called “third-party cookies”, and can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

 

Types of cookies and how we use them:

 

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts and payment processing. We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.

 

Performance cookies

Performance cookies are used in the tracking of how you use a website during your visit, without collecting personal information about you. In our respect this information is anonymous and aggregated with information tracked across all site users, to help us understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors their users may encounter, and make better strategic decisions in improving their audience’s overall website experience. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services.

We use performance cookies on our site.

 

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies are used in collecting information about your device and any settings you may configure on the website you’re visiting (like language and timezone settings). With this information, websites can provide you with customised, enhanced or optimised content and services. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party service.

We use functionality cookies for selected features on our site.

 

Targeting/advertising cookies

Targeting/advertising cookies are used in determining what promotional content is more relevant and appropriate to you and your interests. Websites may use them to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. This helps companies improve the effectiveness of their campaigns and the quality of content presented to you. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. Targeting/advertising cookies set by third-parties may be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

We do not use this type of cookie on our site.

 

Third-party cookies on our site

We may employ third-party companies and individuals on our websites—for example, analytics providers and content partners. We grant these third parties access to selected information to perform specific tasks on our behalf. They may also set third-party cookies in order to deliver the services they are providing. Third-party cookies can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service. As we have no control over third-party cookies, they are not covered by Brenda Gilhooly’s cookie policy.

 

Examples of those in use are as follows:

 

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to monitor website traffic. All collected information (like IP address) is anonymous in this respect and does not allow your identification. (Anonymous IP settings ) The use of Google Analytics services involves the implementation of the tracking code provided by Google into our website’s code. This code is based on cookies but may also use other tracking technologies. Details related to the use of information collected by Google as part of our use of Google Analytics as part of our site can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

 

We use external Media players on our website

A common example is an embedded YouTube or vimeo video. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

 

We also use Social Website Cookies

So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

We use share tools at the bottom of all of our web pages.

 

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

 

Our third-party privacy promise:

We review the privacy policies of all our third-party providers before enlisting their services to ensure their practices align with ours. We will never knowingly include third-party services that compromise or violate the privacy of our users.

 

How you can control or opt out of cookies

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie.

 

If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device.

Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your experience of a website, blocking all cookies may mean you are unable to access certain features and content across the sites you visit.

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