What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or page, so the website can recognise your device the next time you visit. Cookies are essentially used for easy navigation, making your experience faster, easier, and more personalised. The term ‘cookies’ in this Policy is used to refer to all files that collect information in this way.
There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help us to remember your language preferences or login information or analyse how well the site is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
Cookies on our website
In order to make your visits to our project site as pleasant as possible, the MEMENTOES Consortium uses cookies. These cookies automatically track and collect certain technical information that your browser sends to us. This information might include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, the browser type, browser language, Internet service providers (ISP), referring/exit pages, URLs, operating systems, date/time stamps, and other similar information. However, this information doesn’t identify individual users and we use it exclusively to analyse trends, to administer the site, to track user movements around the site as a whole to improve the services provided. Where a cookie is not strictly necessary, we give you the opportunity to opt out of its usage. We do not use cookies to track your behaviour once you have left our website, and the data from cookies will not be passed on to or used by any commercial enterprise that is not operating under our instruction and only process data as laid out in this policy.
How do we use cookies?
A visit to our website may generate ‘first-party’ cookies and ‘third-party’ cookies. First-party cookies are set by us and relate to the domain of our website. A third-party cookie is a cookie that is associated with a domain name different from that of the page where the cookie is encountered. They are only generated with your agreement. We use third-party cookies to provide enhanced site functionality such as embedded video content.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are the most important cookies because they are essential for the operation of the site. You need them to move around our website and access many basic features. If you opt to disable these cookies, you will not be able to access or use MEMENTOES website at all.
- We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences and give a more personalised experience. They record information about choices you’ve made on our website, such as language etc.
- We utilise performance/analytics cookies to analyse how the website is accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the website. For example, these cookies allow us to better understand our website’s visitors so that we can improve how we present our content or collect general and not personalised information about website visitors such as what browsers or devices they are using, determine the number of first-time users etc.
Within these three categories, cookies are classified as either session or persistent cookies. ‘Session’ cookies are temporary and once you close the browser window, they are deleted from your device. ‘Persistent’ cookies remain on your device for a longer period and are used by the website to recognise your device when you return.
Retention period of the Cookies we use
The session cookies are temporary and they are not retaining after closing the browser window. The functionality cookies and the performance/analytics cookies are stored by Google to ‘remember’ the user’s interactions with the website (Google Analytics) for a period not exceeding 2 years.
How to control Cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies through the pop-up on this site. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website.
Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.
Change of this Policy
We may change this policy to reflect changes in the legal framework and our practices and services. We suggest you visit this policy from time to time for updates.
Contact us
If you have any concerns as to how your data is processed, you can contact us by e-mail or post:
[Data Protection Officer, Trilateral Research Ltd, Marine Point, 2nd Floor, Belview Port, Waterford, X91 W0XW, Ireland or at DPO [at] trilateralresearch.com] We will respond to your queries within 30 days from when we
