Our Policies
Cookie Policy
Overview
Ornua Co-operative Limited and its subsidiaries (“Ornua”, “us” and “we”) respect your right to privacy in relation to your use of our websites, official social media pages controlled by us and any other form of electronic communication which we use to communicate with you (each a “Site”, together the “Sites”). To make the Sites work properly and for other purposes explained below, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. This notice describes what cookies are used on our Sites, what information cookies on our Sites gather, how we use information gathered by cookies and why we sometimes need to store cookies. We will also explain how you can prevent certain cookies from being stored on your device.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your device such as desktop, mobile or tablet when you visit the website. We may use cookies to store preferences; record session information; develop information about Site visitors’ preferences and interests; record past activity at a website in order to provide better service when you return to our Site; or customize web page content based on information you voluntarily provide. When you accept cookies using the cookie consent tool on the Sites, pieces of code will be stored on your device(s).
The collection of cookies allows us to better understand your interaction with our Sites and can also aid in better user experience. By enabling a website to remember a visitors actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) for a period of time, this can reduce the information that needs to be re-entering when visitors return to the website or browse from one page to another.
Cookies can constitute or contain “personal data” as defined under EU and UK data protection law. For information about our compliance with data protection law please refer to our Privacy Policy https://www.kerrygoldusa.com/privacy-policy/.
Types Of Cookies
There are a number of different categories of cookies:
Necessary Cookies: these cookies websites usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. A website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preference Cookies: these cookies enable websites to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks based on previous user interactions, like the region that the user is in.
Statistical Cookies: these cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. For example, visitors’ IP addresses are collected by Google Analytics who then provide general statistical reporting to the website owner, to allows better understanding of the geographical breakdown of visitors to the website and how those visitors have interacted with the website.
Marketing Cookies: these cookies are used to track visitors across websites for the purpose of displaying ads that are targeted at the individual user based on his or her browsing history.
The Cookies We Set
A full list of cookies and the purpose for which they are used is provided in Ornua’s “Cookie Declaration” – the Cookie Declaration can be accessed in Ornua’s “Cookie Centre” which you can find as a link on the landing page of each of the Sites.
Necessary Cookies are set by default and cannot be deactivated as without them our website cannot function. Enabling preference, statistical or marketing cookies is your choice – you can delete or block these cookies, but if you do, please note that some features of the Site may not work as intended.
You can disable cookies using your Internet browser settings or by refusing consent to cookies using our cookie management tool in our Cookie Centre. “Strictly necessary” cookies do not require user consent – you can see what cookies are “strictly necessary” in the list of cookies in our Cookie Declaration. If you consent to our use of other cookies but subsequently change your mind, that is fine – you can deselect the consent which you previously provided using our cookies management tool in our Cookie Centre.
In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties, who place cookies on your device when you visit our Site. For example, we use Google Analytics, which is one of the most common and trusted analytics solutions on the internet for helping us to understand how you use our website and ways that we can improve your experience.
How To Control Cookies
You can manage cookies as you wish – please follow the link to Ornua’s Cookie Centre on the homepage of the Site and then click “Manage Cookie Preferences”. However, as noted above, disabling some cookies may result in disabling certain functionality and features of the Site.
You may also manage cookies on your specific browser, we suggest you visit some or all of the following websites to find out how to do this:
More Information
If you require more information about how we use cookies, please feel free to contact us at Ornua Co-operative Limited, Grattan House, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, Ireland or by phone on 00 353 1 661 9599 or e-mail dataprotection@ornua.com.
This notice was most recently updated: 15 December 2022
