Cookie Policy

Cookie Notice for privacyengine.io and blog.privacyengine.io

PrivacyEngine Cookie Notice: Last Review Date: Cookie declaration last updated on 10/2/22

This notice explains to you the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies on privacyengine.io & blog.privacyengine.io

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. Cookies have varying functionality and are typically used to ensure that a website functions properly as you might expect it to. However, cookies also allow websites to ‘remember’ your browsing habits or preferences over a period of time.

Cookies may be set by PrivacyEngine as the website operator directly (“first-party cookies”) or in some cases, by another third-party service provider (“third-party cookies”). In the latter scenario, cookies are deployed for social media, marketing or analytics purposes. PrivacyEngine will only be able to directly recognise and read the information contained on first-party cookies.

Other Tracking Technologies:

There are other technologies that we deploy which track behaviour on our website. ‘Tracker Pixels’ are a means of allowing us to check whether you have viewed our content. These “pixels” are essentially tiny, invisible images on our web pages that, once loaded, will communicate your interaction with our content. This allows PrivacyEngine and our partners to gauge the validity of material being presented to you.

Third Parties:

We avail of third-party technologies across our site. These technologies help us to understand how you use the site and the ways in which we can improve your user experience. These technologies may track certain information such as the pages you visit across our site as well as how long your visit lasts. This allows us to continue providing engaging content. We also use social media plugins on this site that allow you to view videos and otherwise interact with certain content. In order for these technologies to work, trusted third parties will set cookies and tracker pixels throughout our site. Once enabled, these technologies may be used to enhance your profile or to contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. For any third-party technology used on our site, we will provide a link to that third-party’s respective cookie/privacy statement for your information. We strongly encourage our visitors to review these policies in advance of granting consent to deployment.

What Information Do We Obtain from You?

For each visitor to our site, we automatically gather certain potentially identifying information and store it. This information includes your masked Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, your operating system, date/time stamp, processor or device serial number, unique device identifier, and clickstream data. We collect this information on an individual basis and in aggregate, or combined form.

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies:

We use cookies to provide you with the best user experience on our website, this includes:

• Optimising network resource usage
• Remembering you when you wish to log in to your account
• Remembering you as you interact with our forms
• Providing support for social media features
• Analysing visitor traffic across our site
• Providing you with support via our chat bot
• Providing you with more relevant advertising content

Categories of Tracking Technologies That We Set:

We avail of both first and third-party technologies across our site. PrivacyEngine takes our visitors’ right to privacy seriously in keeping with our respective obligations under EU data protection/privacy law. Should you consent to the deployment of any category of optional technology, we will record your consent for a period of no longer than 6 months subject to interaction; at which point these technologies will be disabled. You will then be prompted to refresh you consent. You may change your settings at any time by clicking the black and white cookie icon in the bottom left-hand corner of our site.

Please state your consent ID and date when you contact us regarding your consent.

Your consent applies to the following domains: blog.privacyengine.io, privacyengine.io

Your consent ID: +cMN+g9IWG3zONTR9aBtPXzjWwkSpSsc51PklKAA9L6Is6K6gSyIAg==Consent date: Friday, August 5, 2022 at 11:58:40 AM GMT+1

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Cookie declaration last updated on 10/2/22 by Cookiebot:

Strictly Necessary (15)

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off by our systems. They are set in response to actions made by you which amount to a service request such as recording how you interact with our cookie banner, logging in to our platform or as you fill out forms on our site. While we cannot disable these cookies, you have the option to do so via your browser settings. Should you do so, certain aspects of our site will no longer function.

Preferences (2)

These cookies enable our website to provide additional functionality and personalisation. The primary purpose behind our use of such cookies is to enable the PrivacyEngine Chat Bot in order to help guide you through our service offerings. If you disable this category of cookies our site will still work, however our chat bot function may become unavailable to you.

Analytics (13)

These cookies allow use to determine the number of visits to our site as well as where that traffic originates. This helps us understand which pages are the most popular as well as how it is that you come to view them. All information collected by this category of cookies is held in aggregate form and is therefore anonymous. While this information will not be combined by PrivacyEngine for profiling purposes, it may be combined by certain Third Parties such as Google to build a profile of your interactions across the web, this in turn may result in highly targeted advertising on other sites. If you disable this category of cookie our site will still work, though its improvement over time will be hampered.

Targeting/Marketing (18)

These cookies and other tracking technologies may be set through our site by either PrivacyEngine or our advertising and social media partners. Should you enable them, they will be used both by PrivacyEngine and our partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. These technologies also allow you to view and interact with our social media content across the site such as viewing our YouTube videos. These technologies operate by uniquely identifying your browser and internet device such as your phone or desktop and monitor specific activity across multiple sites.

Further Information:

We regularly scan our website using a third-party tool to maintain a record of the tracking technologies we deploy.  This record will be kept as accurate as possible.  This policy will also be reviewed to ensure we meet our transparency obligations under relevant data protection and privacy laws.  PrivacyEngine will only processes your information in accordance with this notice as well as our Privacy Notice.

While we hope that this has clarified the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies across our site, should you require additional information then you can contact our Data Protection Team at the following email address: dataprotection@privacyengine.io

You may also contact us by post by writing in to:

Data Protection,

PrivacyEngine,

77 Sir John Rogerson's Quay,

Dublin 2,

Ireland

D02 F540

Should you wish to make a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data or are unsatisfied with how we have handled your information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Supervisory Authority. You may lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission via their online form.