What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file which is stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. This can be very helpful for things like remembering your preferences, saving passwords, keeping track of your ecommerce basket, or ensuring you see only relevant adverts or messaging.

Our cookies

The cookies on https://sanitiseireland.ie/ are not harmful and are used to make your browsing experience better by providing better site functionality and customised experiences.

We do NOT store sensitive or personally identifiable information, such as name, address or credit card details, in our cookies.

The table below shows a list of all of the cookies on https://sanitiseireland.ie/ and how we use them.

This is the cookie we use to know that you are the same person each time you load a page. We use this to save your choices when browsing the site and to add products to your basket or My Favourites account. Without this cookie, none of these features would work.

These are cookies stored for Google Analytics, which allows us to know how many people have been on the site and which pages have been viewed. All data for this is stored anonymously as statistics, so you can’t be identified from a visit.

These are cookies set by Facebook.com and Twitter.com. They are necessary for the Facebook “like” and Twitter “tweet” buttons to work on the product pages. If you’d like more information about these, please visit http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#socialplugin and https://twitter.com/privacy. Facebook cookies are also used for targeting purposes to provide you with personalised ads. They store no personal information

Banner advertisements are presented to you on other chosen websites based upon your browsing history of https://sanitiseireland.ie/, and this service uses cookies.

The data contained in these advertising cookies is anonymous and does not contain personal information, nor do any of the cookies used on https://sanitiseireland.ie/.

How to control cookies

Your web browser provides tools to allow you to change your cookie settings. How you adjust your settings will depend on the browser you are using.

For example to turn off cookies in your Google Chrome Browser follow these steps:

1. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.

2. Select Settings.

3. Click Show advanced settings.

4. In the “Privacy” section, click the Content settings button.

5. In the “Cookies” section, you can change to your preferred setting.

For other browsers check the tools or preferences in the Help menu to learn how to change your cookie settings.

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