The Childhood Development Initiative Cookie Policy
This cookie policy relates to https://www.cdi.ie and any of its subdomains.
The Childhood Development Initiative is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site. You can opt out of all cookies on our website except those classed as strictly necessary.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They allow companies to customise functions of a website for users such as remembering a registered login and also to track movements within a website to see which pages are popular and allow a company to create a better website for its users.
Cookies are classified into the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Preference cookies
Preference 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.
Statistics cookies
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
THE COOKIES WE USE
This website uses cookies to personalise content, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share anonymous information with our analytics partners about how our site is used. You can change your preferences at any time, on our Cookie Policy page. Select your preference by clicking one of the buttons below.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. We need your permission for all other types of cookies.
Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
- YouTube – we have some YouTube videos embedded on the site. YouTube may set cookies to track usage or remember preferences.
- Twitter – we have some links to Twitter on the site. Twitter may set cookies if you interact with it.
- Yahoo Web Player – We use Yahoo’s Web Player to deliver some audio files on the site. The player sets cookies to enable its use.
- Google Analytics – Google Analytics helps us gather information about how people use our site. This information recorded is anonymously and includes the number of visitors to the site, where they navigated from and what pages they visited. This information enables us to improve our site.
You can find more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
We use the following cookies:
Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Persistence | Data Transfer | Category |
Style | Remembers visitor’s preferred setting | CDI | Ireland | Preference | |
SN4accb396c1e09 | Keeps track of visitor sessions | CDI | Ireland | Statistics? | |
utma | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the site, as well as the dates of the first and most recent visits | 2 years | USA | Statistics | |
utmb | Registers a timestamp of the exact time the user accessed the site. Used by Google Analytics to calculated duration of a site visit | 1 day | USA | Statistics | |
utmc | Registers a timestamp of the exact time the user leaves the site. Used by Google Analytics to calculated duration of a site visit | Session cookie | USA | Statistics | |
utmz | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used | 6 months | USA | Statistics |
HOW TO BLOCK COOKIES
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to some common browsers and instructions.
CONSENT
Your consent applies to the following domains: https://www.cdi.ie. Upon your first visit to the website, our cookies management tool will be activated. You will be asked to set your cookies preference for the website. Your selected preference will be stored for 6 months before you will be asked again to confirm your cookie preferences.
You can withdraw / change this consent at any time by clicking on the ‘Manage Cookies’ icon located on the footer of each of our website pages. You can then adjust the available sliders to left ‘Reject’ or to the right from ‘Accept’ and click ‘Confirm my Choices” to save the changes.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.