Cookie Policy
What is a cookie
A cookie is a small file stored on your computer or mobile device. Websites use cookies to store and retrieve information about users, which enables features that need to to “remember” and track users. For example, cookies allow websites to remember what items are in your shopping cart, or whether you are logged in or logged out. There are two types of cookie: session and persistent. A session cookie is deleted from your device when you leave the website. A persistent cookie has an expiry time, which can range from hours to years. A persistent cookie will remain on your computer until it is manually deleted or it expires. Cookies can come from two sources: first-party or third-party. A first-party cookie is a cookie set by the website you are visiting. A third-party cookie is included on the website you are visiting, but comes from another domain.
How are cookies used on this website
This website uses both session and persistent cookies, and both first-party and third-party cookies. The purposes of cookies used on this website include:
- Security
- Social media sharing
- Analytics
- Advertising
What cookies are used on this website
| Domain | Name | Expires | Information |
| .addthis.com | loc | 13 months | Geolocation, used to help publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located. |
| .addthis.com | mus | 1 year and 25 days | Unclassified |
| .addthis.com | uid | 1 year and 25 days | Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. |
| .addthis.com | uvc | 13 months | Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. |
| .bluekai.com | bkdc | 5 months and 27 days | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
| .bluekai.com | bku | 5 months and 27 days | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
| .facebook.com | fr | 1 month | Encrypted Facebook ID and Browser ID |
| .mathtag.com | uuid | 13 months | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads. |
| .mathtag.com | uuidc | 13 months | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads. |
| .quayside.ie | __utma | 2 years | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics |
| .quayside.ie | __utmb | 30 minutes | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| .quayside.ie | __utmc | Session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
| .quayside.ie | __utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| .quayside.ie | __utmz | 6 months | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| .semasio.net | SEUNCY | 6 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device for return visits. |
| .tapad.com | TapAd_DID | 2 months | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. |
| .tapad.com | TapAd_TS | 2 months | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. |
| .quayside.ie | __atuvc | 1 month | The __atuvc cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users. |
| .quayside.ie | __atuvs | 1 month | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. |
| .quayside.ie | wfvt_1514961907 | 30 minutes | Cookies starting with ‘wfvt’ contain information about your general geographic location (used to remember your time zone, for example). |
| .quayside.ie | wordfence_verifiedHuman | 1 day | Cookie set by the Wordfence Security WordPress plugin to protect the site against malicious attacks. |
| www.quayside.ie | qsc-popup-viewed | Session | Remembers if the visitor has already seen the pop-up |
Managing cookies
Your browser has tools to help you manage which cookies you accept or not. For example, you can choose not to accept any third-party cookies, or to filter cookies from specific domains. You can read more about managing cookies in specific browsers here: