Subject to your consent when required by applicable law, our website uses cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”).
This Cookies Policy (the “Policy”) describes how Irish Distillers, a corporation duly organised under the laws of Ireland, with registered address at Simmonscourt House, Simmonscourt Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Irish Distillers” or “we”), is committed to respecting your privacy regarding its use of cookies on its websites, applications, pages on social media, etc. (the “Digital Media”).
Before using our Digital Media, please carefully read this Cookie Policy (including the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy). If you do not agree to this Cookies Policy or the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy, do not use our Digital Media.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookies Policy or the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy at any time. Such change should occur in the near future to take into account the e-Privacy Regulation provisions which is currently debated at the EU Parliament level and the recommendations of the data protection authorities.
We will notify you, by appropriate means, of any material / substantive change in this Cookies Policy or in the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy. You are also invited to regularly read this Cookies Policy or the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy to make sure you are aware of any change and how your Personal Data may be used.
1.What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files or pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit our Digital Media. A cookie will usually contain the name of the website/application from which the cookie has come from, the duration of the cookie (i.e., how long the cookie will remain on your device), and a value, which is usually a randomly generated unique number.
We use cookies to make our Digital Media easier to use and to better tailor our Digital Media, our communications and our products to your interests and needs.
Cookies can do this because our Digital Media can read and write these files, enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of our Digital Media more convenient (for example by remembering preference settings).
Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities and experience on our Digital Media. We also use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Digital Media and to help us improve the structure and content of our Digital Media.
The types of cookies that we may use can be either session or persistent, or first party or third-party cookies.
You will find below a list of the different types of cookies we use on our Digital Media. To the extent information collected through cookies constitutes Personal Data, the provisions in the Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy apply in addition to this Cookie Policy.
We also use technical cookies which allow our Digital Media to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) for customisation and personalisation purposes. These cookies do not gather any information about you that will be used for advertising purposes or to remember your browsing history on the internet.
| Who is placing the cookie? | Type | Description/purpose |
| Irish Distillers | Persistent cookie | Visibility Cookies: Irish Distillers installs a cookie on your computer which indicates whether or not you have been informed of the use of cookies through a banner notice being displayed and then whether you have indicated your consent to the use of cookies that are not strictly necessary for the provision of the service. |
| Irish Distillers | Persistent cookie | Device Identifier Cookie: Irish Distillers installs a cookie on your computer which identifies you and tells the Website/application that you are logged in. |
| Irish Distillers | Persistent cookie | User Local Cookie: Irish Distillers installs a cookie which is used to remember local specific |
| Who is placing the cookie | Type | Description/purpose |
| Persistent and session ID cookies | Google Analytics: The cookies Google Analytics work together to give us information about how people use our Digital Media. |
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies on all the websites you visit, go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
To opt-in or opt-out of being tracked only on this Website, use the Cookie Set-Up Tool.
Our Digital Media uses the following advertising cookies:
| Who is placing the cookie | Type | Description/purpose |
| BlueKai | Persistent cookies | Profiling tag. BlueKai installs a tracker on the user’s devices which collects data on the browsing of the user on different websites using the tracker’s unique ID number. Irish Distillers uses the data to profile the users and define detailed market segments, for use in the marketing campaign strategy. |
| Persistent cookies | Advertising Cookie. The Google advertising cookies are used to customise ads on Google properties, like Google Search. For example, these cookies are used to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. |
We also use cookies to enable sharing of data with social media. These social media may place a third-party cookie on your device (via a pixel or a plug-in button), which could gather usage information. These cookies are used in particular to identify you whenever you browse on our Digital Media and then to find you among the users of the relevant social media if you are a member in order to (i) show you ads about our products and services when you browse the relevant social media, and (ii) to identify, based on your profile on the relevant social media (where you live, age, gender, language, socio-demographic characteristics, interests and behaviour), lookalikes who may also be interested by Irish Distiller’s ads. In the context of these activities, we act as a joint controller together with each social media (for more information see Irish Distillers Online Privacy Policy.
Our Digital Media uses the following social media cookies:
| Who is placing the cookie | Type | Description |
| Persistent cookie | Facebook: Cookies are used to facilitate the sharing of content of our Digital Media on Facebook and show you targeted advertising. | |
| Persistent cookie | Twitter: Cookies are used to facilitate the sharing of content of our Digital Media on Twitter. |
To opt out of being tracked by BlueKai on all the websites you visit, go to http://www.bluekai.com/consumers.php#optout.
To opt out of being tracked by Google advertising cookies on all the websites you visit, go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
To opt out of being tracked by Facebook and Twitter on all the websites you visit, go to the General Account Settings of your Facebook and Twitter accounts, locate, and click the opt-out link.
For more information on how social media process your personal data, please consult their data protection policy:
– For Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
– For Twitter: https://twitter.com/fr/privacy
To opt-in or opt-out of being tracked only on our Digital Media, use the Cookie Consent Tool.
We also use additional features cookies in order to offer you an enhanced user experience on our Digital Media by adding content from third-party services in our Digital Media. For instance, by enriching our Digital Media with multimedia content while maintaining an optimal loading speed.
Please note that rejecting these cookies is likely to mean that our Digital Media will not operate properly and accordingly you will not be able to take full advantage of the Digital Media.
To opt-in or opt-out of being tracked only on our Digital Media, use the Cookie Consent Tool
2. How long are cookies stored?
Cookies will have a maximum retention period after being placed on the user’s terminal as required by applicable law.
3. How to control cookies on our Digital Media?
Except for cookies which qualify as essential, the cookies described above will be installed on your computer only if you expressly consent to them. In order to make your own choice, please use the link to the Cookie Consent Tool which is also accessible from the Banner to consent/turn on or off non-essential cookies on our Digital Media, by clicking the relevant button as it will appear on the menu as follows:
You can also control how your browser uses cookies and your browser’s ‘Help’ function should be able to tell you how to do this.
Please note that depending on the cookies you turn on or disable, you may not be able to login to your account, view content or use other features of our Digital Media and may find that parts of our Digital Media either do not function at all or behave unexpectedly.
If you use different devices to view and access our Digital Media (e.g., your computer, smartphone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
4. How to contact us?
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our use of cookies please contact [email protected]
Last Update: January 2023
