Cookies Policy

This cookies policy (the "policy") was last updated on 11/11/2020 and refers to this website (www.smurfitteamcoaches.ie) operated by Smurfit Team Coaches of Smurfit Team Coaches, The Ironworks, Ashford, Co. Wicklow, A67X225.

Our site uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure that we give our visitors the best possible experience by providing you personalised information, remembering your marketing and product preferences, and helping you obtain the right information. You can find out more about cookies and similar technologies, how we use them, and how to control them below.

Use of cookies and similar technologies

This notice describes how Smurfit Team Coaches, our partners, and any third parties use cookies and similar technologies (such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, JavaScript, and local storage). We will refer to these cookies and similar technologies simply as “cookies” for the rest of notice. We will also describe what options you may have regarding those cookies.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect information that is personally identifiable, or that can become personally identifiable if we combine it with other information. In such cases, our Privacy Policy will apply in addition to this notice.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files—usually consisting of letters and numbers—placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device, when you use that device to visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites operate, work more efficiently, and provide analytic information.

These are the different types of cookies we and our service providers may use on our sites:

  • Essential cookies. These cookies are required for the operation of our sites and enable you to move around the sites and use their features. Disabling these cookies will encumber the sites’ performance and may make the features and service unavailable.

  • Analytics and customization cookies. These cookies allow us to analyse activities on our sites and on other sites where we post content in order to improve and optimize the way our sites work. For example, we may use these types of cookies to ensure that visitors can easily find the information they are looking for on our websites. One way we do this is to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how they move around our website when they are using it. Analytics cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our advertising campaigns and to optimize our sites’ content for those who engage with our advertising.

  • Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our sites. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences.

  • Advertising cookies. These cookies record your online activities, including your visits to our sites, the pages you have visited, and the links and advertisements you have clicked. One purpose of this is to help make the content displayed on our sites more relevant to you. Another purpose is to allow us and our service providers to deliver advertisements or other communications to you that are designed to be more relevant to your apparent interests. When we and our service providers do so, this also involves partners such as publishers, data management platforms, and demand side platforms that help to manage the data. For example, if you look at one page on one of our sites, we may cause an advertisement to be delivered to you, on our sites or on other sites, for products referenced on that page or for similar products and services. We and our service providers and partners may also append other data to information collected by these cookies, including information obtained from third parties, and share this information with third parties for the purpose of delivering ads to you.

How does Smurfit Team Coaches collect and use other information?

We and our service providers may use cookies for a variety of purposes, including to:

  • Help us and relevant third parties obtain information about your visits to the sites;

  • Analyse your visiting patterns to improve our sites;

  • Deliver, communications, and content from us and third parties, on our sites and those of third parties, specific to your interests;

  • Help you obtain information you are looking for;

  • Measure how many people use our sites, and how they use them, to keep our sites running efficiently and to better understand our sites’ audiences.

  • If you register on one of our sites, or otherwise provide us with your personal information, we may associate that information with other information we collect from or about you or that you provide, information regarding your use of our sites, or information we receive from or about you from third parties. We will use this combined data for marketing and analytics purposes.

Third party cookies

You should also be aware that there are cookies which are found in other companies' internet tools which we are using to enhance the website. You will see ‘social buttons’ on our Website, which enable you to share or bookmark the web pages.

How long do cookies stay on my device?

Some cookies operate from the time you visit our site to the end of that particular web browsing session. These cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your Internet browser. These cookies are called “session” cookies.

Some cookies will stay on your device between browsing sessions—they do not expire when you close your browser. These cookies are called “persistent” cookies. The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device varies from cookie to cookie. We and others use persistent cookies for a variety of purposes, such as to store your preferences so that they are available for the next visit, and to keep a more accurate account of how often you visit our sites, how often you return, how your use of the sites may vary over time, and the effectiveness of advertising efforts.

Who puts the cookies on my device?

Cookies may be placed on your device by Smurfit Team Coaches as the site operator. These cookies are called “first party” cookies. Some cookies may be placed on your device by a party other than Smurfit Team Coaches. These cookies are called “third party” cookies.

Third Party cookies may be used to allow us and third parties to know when you visit our sites, and to understand how you interact with e-mails, advertisements, or other content. Through cookies, aggregate and other information not identifying individual users (such as your operating system, browser version, and the URL you came from, including from e-mails and advertisements) may be obtained and used to enhance your experience and understand traffic patterns. This technology counts the number of users who visit a particular page from specific online ads outside the Smurfit Team Coaches. It is also used as a tool to compile aggregated statistics about how InsideOut.ie is used, to perform analytics and help us to optimize our sites, and to help serve you advertising based on your interests, as described in further detail below.

How does Smurfit Team Coaches use online and mobile advertising?

We and third parties, including technology partners, and service providers may engage in interest-based advertising to deliver advertisements and personalized content that we and other advertisers believe will be of interest to you. To the extent third party vendors are using cookies to perform these services for Smurfit Team Coaches or others, Smurfit Team Coaches does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

Ads may be delivered to you based on your online or mobile behaviour, your search activity, your responses to one of our advertisements or e-mails, the pages you visit, your general geographic location, or other information. These ads may appear on our sites or on third party web sites.

How do I manage cookies?

You can decide whether or not to accept cookies. One way you can do this is through your internet browser’s settings. Most internet browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings (please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access parts of our web site).

What about other tracking technologies?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. Smurfit Team Coaches use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our web sites or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Privacy

Smurfit Team Coaches is committed to privacy. For more information about our approach to privacy see our Privacy Policy.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about how Smurfit Team Coaches uses cookies, you can contact us

This notice updates and supersedes previous versions. We may change this notice at any time. The “LAST UPDATED” section at the top of this page lists when this notice was last revised. Any changes to this notice will become effective when we make the revised notice available on or through the sites.