Cookies Policy

THIS NOTICE EXPLAINS TO YOU THE USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES ON YOUTH.IE

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 a number of uses. They are used to ensure that a website functions properly as you might expect it to. Cookies also allow websites to ‘remember’ your browsing habits or preferences over a period of time. Cookies may be set by National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) 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, advertising or analytics purposes National Youth Council of Ireland will only be able to directly recognise and read the information contained on first-party cookies.

OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

There are other technologies which 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 Youth.ie 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 policy for your information. We 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 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:

• Network Optimisation.
• Remembering you when you wish to log in to your account.
• Providing support for social media features.
• Allowing you to view embedded content.
• Analysing visitor traffic across our site.
• Providing you with more relevant advertising content.
• Remembering your cookie consent status.

CATEGORIES OF TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE SET

We avail of both first and third-party technologies across our site. NYCI takes our visitors’ right to privacy seriously in keeping with our obligations. 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 your consent.

NECESSARY COOKIES

These cookies are necessary for the website to function. They are set for security purposes and in response to actions made by you which amount to a service request such as logging in to our platform or filling out forms on our site. You have the option to disable these cookies via your browser settings, but should you do so, certain aspects of our site will no longer function. For more information about the specific technologies we use for this purpose, please see below.

Host	Provider	Name	Description	Duration
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie Is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”.	11 months
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie Is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”.	11 months
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie Is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”.	11 months
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie Is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”.	11 months
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie Is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Advertisement”.	11 months
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	cookielawinfo-checkbox-others	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie Is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other”.	11 months
Youth.ie	Cookie Law	viewed_cookie_policy	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of the cookies. It does not store any personal data.	11 months
Youth.ie	PHP	PHPSESSID	The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialized state data. On the Action website, it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie.	Session
Youth.ie	Cloudflare	__cf_bm	This cookie is set by Cloudflare and is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management.	1 hour
Youth.ie	WordPress	wpEmojiSettingsSupports	WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly.	Session
Youth.ie	Google	rc::a	This cookie is set by google to read and filter requests from bots	6 months

Should you wish to disable these cookies via your browser settings, please see the following links relating to your particular browser.

• Google Chrome Browser
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser
• Mozilla Firefox Browser
• Apple Safari Browser
• Opera Web Browser

FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

Functional cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

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. For example, when enabled, we use Google Analytics for aggregated, anonymized website traffic analysis. In order to track your session usage, Google drops a cookie (_ga) with a randomly-generated ClientID in your browser. This ID is anonymized and contains no identifiable information like email, phone number, name, etc. We also send Google your masked IP Address. We use GA to track aggregated website behaviour, such as what pages you looked at, for how long, etc. This information is important to us for improving the user experience and determining site effectiveness.
This information will not be combined by youth.ie for profiling purposes, however, certain third parties such as Google may use this information in aggregate form for the purposes outlined in their respective privacy notices. If you disable this category of cookie our site will still work, though its improvement over time will be hampered.

For more information on Google Analytics as well as how you may opt-out of being tracked on this and other sites, please see the following links:

• Information for visitors of sites and apps using Google Analytics
• Google Analytics Opt-Out

For more information on the specific technologies we and our partners use for this purpose, please see below.

Host	Provider	Name	Description	Duration
Youth.ie	Google	_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors	1 year one month and 4 days
Youth.ie	Google	_ga_*	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.	1 year one month and 4 days
Youth.ie	Google	_gid	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source and the pages they visit anonymously.	1 day
Youth.ie	Google	_dc_gtm_*	Google Analytics sets this cookie to load the Google Analytics script tag and store information on how the visitor uses a website.	1 minute
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_migrations	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_current_add	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_first_add	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_current	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_first	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_udata	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_session	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	1 hour
Youth.ie	Sourcebuster JS	sbjs_current	Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	Meta	_fbp	Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website.	3 months
Youth.ie	Hotjar	_hjSession_*	Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site.	1 hour
Youth.ie	Hotjar	hjActiveViewportIds	Hotjar sets this cookie to contain an ID string in a current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters. This information is used to optimise the visitors experience.	Session
Youth.ie	Hotjar	_hjTLDTest	Hotjar sets this cookie to determine the most common cookie path to use instead of the site’s hostname. This is done so it can be shared across subdomains.	Session

ADVERTISEMENT/MARKETING TECHNOLOGIES

These cookies and other tracking technologies may be set through our site by either NYCI or our advertising and social media partners. They may be used 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 Vimeo and 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. In the majority of cases, you have the ability to opt-out of third-party cross-site tracking via the links provided.

For more information on the specific technologies, we and our partners use for this purpose, including how your information may be further processed, please see below.

Host	Provider	Name	Description	Duration
Youth.ie	YouTube	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie provides ad delivery, or retargeting, store and track a visitor’s identity and interaction.	6 months
Youth.ie	Meta	VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	This cookie is used by Meta to record visits to websites, pages and links followed.	180 days
Youth.ie	YouTube	YSC	This cookie is used by YouTube to remember user input and associate a user’s actions on the website.	Session
Youth.ie	YouTube	remote_sid	This cookie provides a unique identifier to track YouTube video views.	Session
Youth.ie	Meta	lastExternalRef¬errerTime	This cookie detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL address	Persistent
Youth.ie	Meta	lastExternalRef¬errer	This cookie detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL address	Persistent
Youth.ie	YouTube	LAST_RESULT_ENT¬RY_KEY	This cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using an embedded YouTube video.	Persistent
Youth.ie	YouTube	TESTCOOKIESENABLED	This cookie is set by YouTube to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	1 minute

FURTHER INFORMATION

We regularly scan our website using a third-party tool to maintain a record of the tracking technologies we deploy. Youth.ie only processes your personal information in accordance with this notice as well as our Privacy Notice.

Should you require additional information then you can contact our Data Protection Officer at the following email address: info@nyci.ie

You may also contact our Data Protection Officer by writing in to:

3 Montague Street,
Dublin 2,
D02 V327

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 Office of the Data Protection Commissioner via their online form.

A FULL, DETAILED DOCUMENT CONTAINING ALL OF THE ABOVE

Following guidance provided by the WP29, a full PDF. Format document should be made available for individuals to download. This will facilitate visitors having the ability to print-off all relevant information at their discretion.