Cookie Notice
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your computer or device if you agree, which contain information related to a website you visit. Once you agree to allow Cookies from www.giraffe.ie , the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.
Information about our use of cookies
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your computer or device if you agree, which contain information related to a website you visit. Cookies may allow a website to “remember” your actions or preferences over a period of time, or they may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site.
Cookies can be set by the owner of a website or in some cases by third party services the website owner allows to present other information, run content or provide other functionality such as analytics.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
Types of cookies used on our website
We use Google Analytics cookies, which allow us to measure and learn in aggregate how our website is being used, and to see, for example, which are the most popular pages. This will help us ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. See Google Analytics (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage) for more information.
Cookies are generally divided into session cookies and persistent cookies.
- Session cookies. These are temporary cookies that are not persistently stored on your computer or device. They are used to deliver basic functions of a website while you are actively using it. Session cookies are generally erased when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies. These are cookies placed on your computer or device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site. This allows the site to deliver functions between browser sessions and subsequent visits. This site only places cookies that are specific to this site.
We use cookies for a number of reasons.
- Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
We use third parties such as Google for advertising and ad targeting, see more here – http://advertisingconsent.eu
We use a geo-location tool on our website to improve your experience. No sensitive data will be tracked or recorded during this process. You can allow the website to access geo-location via your browser.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
Google Analytics and Google Adwords cookies used on this site
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANONCHK | 10 minutes | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user's session ID and also verify the clicks from ads on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. | |
| CLID | 1 year | No description | |
| CONSENT | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | 6 months | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category . | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 6 months | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Analytics" category . | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 6 months | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category "Performance". | |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | 6 months | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | |
| csbwfs_show_hide_status | 1 day | No description available. | |
| fr | 1 | 2 months | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| GPS | 0 | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location |
| IDE | 1 | 2 years | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
| laravel_session | 1 | 2 hours | laravel uses laravel_session to identify a session instance for a user, this can be changed |
| mexinsurancedb | 0 | 50 years ago | |
| MR | 0 | 1 week | This cookie is used to measure the use of the website for analytics purposes. |
| muc_ads | 2 years | No description | |
| MUID | 0 | 1 year | Used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronize the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking. |
| NID | 1 | 6 months | This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users. |
| personalization_id | 2 years | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. | |
| SM | session | No description available. | |
| SRM_B | 1 year 24 days | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. | |
| test_cookie | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 1 | 5 months | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. |
| YSC | 1 | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | |
| yt.innertube::nextId | never | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | |
| yt.innertube::requests | never | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | |
| _clck | 1 year | No description | |
| _clsk | 1 day | No description | |
| _fbp | 0 | 2 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
| _ga | 0 | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gat | 0 | 1 minute | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gat_UA-7865012-1 | 0 | 1 minute | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| _gcl_au | 0 | 2 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| _gid | 0 | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | |
| _hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. | |
| _hjSessionUser_1075060 | 1 year | No description | |
| _hjSession_1075060 | 30 minutes | No description | |
| _hjTLDTest | session | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. | |
| _uetsid | 0 | 1 day | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
| _uetvid | 0 | 2 weeks | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Changes to this Cookies Policy
Giraffe Childcare reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the privacy policy, you should not access or use the site.
