Cookie Notice
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Why do we use cookies?
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to enhance your experience while you navigate through the website and also helps us to improve our website.
These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies, alternatively you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, where you opt-out of certain cookies, or where you set your browser to block all cookies (including essential cookies) this may affect your browsing experience.
ENL uses cookies for the purpose of storing and retrieving session information in respect of our online systems and for analysing traffic on our website. The types of cookies we use include necessary and functional cookies, performance and analytical cookies, and advertising cookies.
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around Emerald Nursing’s website and use its features. The type of personal data collected through these cookies includes your IP address; location data and the fact that you are logged into our website. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser and do not store your preferences or information beyond your current visit. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
2. Performance or Analytical Cookies
These cookies collect information about Emerald Nursing website usage. These cookies do not collect information that identifies an individual website user. Instead, they collect browser information and anonymised data for the reasons set out above. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall view of website use and users are never identified individually or personally. These cookies are only used to identify ways to improve the website.
Performance Cookies remain on your device for varying periods of time with some deleted when you close your browser and others remaining on your device indefinitely until deleted.
Our cookie widget is set so that performance and analytical cookies will not be placed on your device unless you opt in.
To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information about Google Analytics, and the cookies it sets please visit:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.
3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise you and remember choices you make (such as choice of language, cookie consent preferences or mobile device preferences) when you return to our website. In order to provide these features, these cookies do collect your personal information. Usually, functionality cookies expire after a maximum of 2 years and can be deleted from your browser history at any time up to the point of their expiry.
4. Advertising or Targeting Cookies
We use cookies set by third parties which are used to deliver advertisements to you, based on your preferences and interests and to measure the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns. For example, for measuring how many unique browsers have seen a particular advertisement and how many of those subsequently visit the website. Each have their own privacy policy which will tell you how they use cookies and data tags.
Our cookie widget is set so that advertising or targeting cookies will not be placed on your device unless you opt in.
You can opt out of one or all third party Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) cookies on the web browser you are currently using with an “opt-out cookie” by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/your-ad-choices.
Set out below is more information on these categories of cookies, including their purpose and whether these cookies collect personal data:
| DOMAIN | COOKIE NAME | COOKIE TYPE | PURPOSE | EXPIRES |
| emeradnursing.ie | cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Necessary Cookie | This cookie is essential for our site to enable us to:
Detect whether you have accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of our website. |
1 year |
| emeraldnursing.ie | cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Necessary Cookie | This cookie is essential for our site to enable us to: Detect whether you have accepted the statistics category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of our website |
1 year |
| emeraldnursing.ie | cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional;
and cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary |
Necessary and Functionality Cookies | This cookie is essential for our site to enable us to: Determine whether you have accepted the cookie consent box.This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of our website |
1 year each |
| emeraldnursing.ie | cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Necessary | This cookie is essential for our site to enable us to remember your cookie preferences for future use
This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of our website |
1 year |
| vimeo.com | vuid | Statistics | We may sometimes embed videos from Vimeo.com onto our website.
This cookie collects data on the user’s visit to the website, such as which pages have been read. |
2 years |
| emeraldnursing.ie | _fb_chat_plugin | Persistent
Marketing |
This cookie is used to track the user’s interaction with the website’s Facebook chat widget. | Persistent |
| emeraldnursing.ie | _fbp | Advertising | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from 3rd party advertisers | 3 months |
| facebook.com | common/cavalry_endpoint.php | Unclassified | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites to present more relevant advertisement and enables the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same ad. | After session |
| Facebook.com | messaging_plugin_http://emeraldnursing.ie/_164438310876950 | Marketing | Persistent | |
| Facebook.com | Tr | Advertising | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from 3rd party advertisers | After Session |
5. Enabling/Disabling Cookies
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies or request that you be warned when a website is trying to install a cookie. This can be done by modifying the settings in your browser. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of this website.
For more information about managing cookies and how to stop cookies being installed visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
6. Privacy FAQs
Our Privacy Policy describes, in a comprehensive manner, how ENL processes your data. For more information on our approach to privacy, please see our Full Privacy Policy
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about how we use Cookies, you can contact us by emailing gdpr@emeraldnursing.ie
