Cookie Policy

Information about Our Use of Cookies

Like many websites, www.roundtable.ie (the “Roundtable Website”) uses “cookies” to personalize your visits to the Roundtable Website, enhance the experience of visitors, keep track of your preferences, and track the usage of the Roundtable Website.

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What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small data text files that, if your web browser permits, can be stored on your computer’s hard drive. The browser will store this file, and each time the browser requests a page from the server (i.e., you click on a page on the Roundtable Website), the identifier is then sent back to the server. The help portion of the toolbar on most web browsers will tell you how to prevent your web browser from accepting new cookies, have the web browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or disable most cookies. You may still use this site even if you reject the cookies. However, you may not be able to access some tools and features offered on the Roundtable Website if you refuse to accept cookies.

There are two main categories of cookies - ‘persistent’ cookies and ‘session’ cookies. A session cookie will only last as long as the user session lasts, so it will be deleted once the web browser is closed. A persistent cookie, however, will continue to be stored by the browser even after the user session ends. Generally, it will be stored until it reaches its set expiry date or unless deleted by the user before that date.

Cookies do not always contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. When cookies can identify an individual via their device, it is considered personal data.

As well as being ‘persistent’ or ‘session,’ different types of cookies can be used for different purposes. Different types of cookies include:

• Essential cookies: These are required for the operation of a website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of a website (such as when a visitor subscribes to Roundtable updates).

• Analytical/performance cookies: These allow the website to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the website when using it. This helps improve the way websites work, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find what they are looking for.

• Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to a website. This enables the personalization of content for you, greeting you by name, and remembering your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to a website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. This information is used to make websites and the advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests. The operator of the website may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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The Types of Cookies We Use

The Roundtable Website uses both persistent and session-type cookies for functional, analytical, and statistical purposes. We may use cookies on the Roundtable Website to provide better navigation for you, as well as:

• To allow you to subscribe for updates from the Roundtable Website

• To help us recognize your web browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences set while your web browser visited the Roundtable Website

• To help us customize the content provided to you on the Roundtable Website (for example, when you access a web page, a cookie automatically recognizes your web browser as you navigate the internet and presents you with information based on your apparent interests)

• To help measure and research the effectiveness of the features, offerings, and email communications (by determining which emails you open and act upon) of the Roundtable Website

In addition, we may use your internet protocol (IP) address to analyse trends, administer the Roundtable Website, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use to improve the Roundtable Website.

The table at the end of this Cookies Policy sets out each of these cookies and provides details on their type, when they will expire, and the purpose of the cookie.

Some cookies may be capable of collecting ‘personal data’ (within the meaning of the GDPR). For more information on how Roundtable processes your personal data, see our Privacy Statement linked below.

 

Third Party Cookies

Cookies on a website do not always originate from the website owner/operator. Third parties, such as advertisers or online service providers, may also use cookies to collect certain information on website users, often for purposes such as data analytics (statistics on website use, for example), to support the website, or targeted advertising. Providers of third-party cookies will have their own privacy notice and cookie policy, which will tell you how and why they use cookies.

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Your Choices

On your first visit to the Roundtable Website, we notified you of the use of cookies. You indicated your preferences as to the use of cookies by selecting/ticking the appropriate boxes. You may decide, at any time, to withdraw or refuse permission for the use of one or more of the cookies by clicking Reject All.

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Manage Choices

However, if you withdraw/refuse permission for the use of certain cookies, or set your browser to block all cookies (including ‘necessary’ cookies), then the Roundtable Website’s functionality may be reduced, and you may not be able to access some or all of the Roundtable Website.

Within your browser settings, you can also choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the retention period specified in the table above.

 

Privacy Statement

You can find more information on Roundtable’s obligations to you, as a user of the Roundtable Website, in our Privacy Statement, available here: www.roundtable.ie/privacy-policy. 

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Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.