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Cookies Statement

Mary Immaculate College

Introduction

This is a statement of the practices of Mary Immaculate College (the "College") in connection with the capture of personal data on this website (that is all web pages within the domain www.mic.ul.ie) and the steps taken by the College to respect your privacy. The College is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites which may be accessed through the Mary Immaculate College website. It is College policy to identify clearly links to external websites and it is your responsibility to satisfy yourself as to the adequacy of the practices of linked sites.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the webpage, or a unique identification number so that the website can 'remember' you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.

When you visit this website, you will see a message informing you about cookies and allowing you to select which categories of cookies to allow or disallow.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Preference Cookies

Preference cookies enable the website to remember information about you that changes the way the website behaves e.g. video settings on embedded videos .

Statistics Cookies

Statistic cookies help us to understand how visitors interact our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use such cookies to analyse anonymised usage patterns.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used by third party companies to track visitors across websites and build a profile of your marketing preferences. They are used to display ads relevant for the individual user and, therefore, more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. This information is collected directly by the third party, not held by MIC. It may be combined with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

In addition to selecting the cookies manually on this site, most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the 'Help' menu on your browser.

Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of this web site may not work correctly.

For information collected by third party cookies, please familiarise yourself with the relevant sections.

Collection and Use of Technical Information

Information on internet traffic is collected routinely by the College and also at other points along the route in the internet (e.g. HEAnet). This technical information is used to ensure the smooth running of the computer network in the College and for statistical or administrative purposes.

No information is collected by MIC for the purpose of identifying individual visitors to the website except in so far as this is permitted by law and may be necessary in order to prevent or detect problems or offences in relation to the operation of the website.

The technical information will be used only by Mary Immaculate College, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.

The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

  • IP address of the visitors' network
  • The top-level domain name used (for example .ie , .com , .org)
  • The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
  • Traffic of visitors around this web site (for example, pages accessed)
  • The type of web browser used by the visitor

Collection of information by Third Parties

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google'). Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to help the web team analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. The retention period for data that is associated with Google Analytics is 14 months. A link to Google analytics data privacy and security page is provided here.

This website uses Facebook Pixel. If enabled by allowing marketing cookies, the Facebook Pixel receives these types of data:

  • Http Headers: Anything present in HTTP headers. HTTP Headers are a standard web protocol sent between any browser request and any server on the internet. HTTP Headers include IP addresses, information about the web browser, page location, document, referrer and person using the website.
  • Pixel-specific Data: Includes Pixel ID and the Facebook Cookie. The Facebook Cookie policy can be accessed at the following link: www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
  • Button Click Data: Includes any buttons clicked by site visitors, the labels of those buttons and any pages visited as a result of the button clicks.
  • Optional Values: Developers and marketers can optionally choose to send additional information about the visit through conversion tracking. Example custom data events are conversion value, page type, and more.
  • Form Field Names: Includes website field names like ‘email’, ‘address’, ‘quantity’ for when you purchase a product or service. We don't capture field values unless you include them as part of Advanced Matching, conversion tracking, or user properties.

Changes to this Cookies Statement

This statement should not be construed as a contractual undertaking. The College reserves the right to review and amend this statement at any time without notice and you should therefore re-visit this webpage from time to time.

Further information on this website’s use of cookies

Related Links

  MIC's Privacy Statement.