Cookie Policy
IT Sligo respects the privacy of all visitors to our websites. This document outlines our policy concerning the use of cookies on any website within the itsligo.ie domain. This policy may be updated to reflect technical or legislature changes which may affect the use of cookies.
Cookies: what are they?
Cookies are small text files sent from a website and stored in the user's web browser while the user is browsing a website. These cookies may be saved by the user's browser on their computer. Cookies may be persistent, they may expire after some predefined period of time, or they may expire at a given date in the future. When a user visits the same website again, the browser may send cookies back to that website allowing the website to recognise the user and remember things like their personalised details or preferences.
How to manage or refuse cookies?
IT Sligo takes privacy concerns seriously, so if you do not want any information collected via a site cookie you can use your in-built browser settings to deny or accept individual or all cookies. You can disable these cookies in your web browser with no loss of functionality. This can be done in your browser's Settings menu — use the help function in your browser or on your browser-maker's web site for more information. The procedure varies from browser to browser. More information about cookies and details of how to manage or disable them can be found on www.aboutcookies.org.
Collection and use of technical information
· IT Sligo uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous traffic data to the website to help us analyse how users use the site. Cookies are used to collect anonymous data on user behaviour and standard Internet activity. The information stored in the cookie is transmitted to Google and then used to evaluate visitors' use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for IT Sligo.
· IT Sligo will never (nor will we enable Third Parties to) use this analytics tool to track or collect any Personally Identifiable Data of visitors to the IT Sligo website. This data is completely anonymous.
· For further information on the privacy of Google Analytics data please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
· It is the policy of this Institute not to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from the Institutes internet service provider, which records such data on the Institutes behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regards, and Google as outlined above), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which the Institute cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute ‘personal data' for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1988 and Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.
Other third party cookies
Some cookies that have been set on our websites are not related to IT Sligo. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example Facebook, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.