What are Cookies?
Cookies are essentially small text files stored on your computer, mobile or tablet device. They are used to improve the online experience of almost every website, including our own, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
There are many benefits to using cookies on our site but mainly they are used so we can keep you logged in as you move around the site and give you a personal experience. Cookies are also used for our online advertisements and to help us to analyse our website traffic.
Cookie Consent
When you visit rootsireland you may be presented with an option to choose to accept all cookies, or choose to customise your cookie preferences. If you choose to customise your preferences you will be be presented with a list of cookie consent options which you can accept or decline to suit your own preferences. Cookie consent is mainly for EU countries and the UK.
| Consent Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | These cookies are necessary for the website to operate. These cookies hold key login information without which the website would not work. These do not hold any personal information and are not used for online advertisements or analytics. The essential cookies cannot be disabled. |
| Ad Storage | Enables storage ( cookies ) related to online advertising. We use online advertisements with Google Adwords, which uses cookies to track the performance of the ads. |
| Ad User Data | Sets consent for sending user data to Google for online advertising purposes. This is related to our online advertising with Google Adwords. |
| Ad Personalization | Sets consent for personalized advertising. This is related to our online advertising with Google Adwords. |
| Analytics Storage | Sets consent for cookies related to website analytics. We use Google Analytics to better understand how visitors interact with our website. This captures information such as your visit duration and the pages you viewed on the site. |
RootsIreland Cookies
Below is a list of the cookies currently used by our website and approved 3rd parties. Hopefully it is clear that all of our cookies are used ultimately to improve the journey for our customers online or to help us present a better website experience online.
| Application | Cookie name | Purpose |
| Roots Ireland Website | rootsirl_consent | We store this cookie to keep track of your personal cookie consent preferences. It stores whether you accepted or declined each of the cookie consent settings. |
| Roots Ireland Website | PHPSESSID | This cookie is used to maintain your user session on the rootireland website. If you disallow this cookie you may be prevented from fully accessing the rootsireland service. |
| Roots Ireland Website | rootsirl | We use this cookie to test whether cookies are enabled on your browser. |
| Roots Ireland Website | rootsirl_login_nnn | This cookie contains login information for your current login. This cookie allows you to keep logged in for a number of days. |
| Google Adwords | ga_ | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
| Google Analytics | NID
ANID IDE id |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site, but not to identify an individual. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site content and usability. The cookies collect information such as the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
If you disallow this cookie we won’t know what you like to visit most, so will not be able to improve this website as a result of your preferences. The ‘NID’ cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users, while the ‘ANID’, ‘IDE’ and ‘id’ cookies are used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. Google mobile apps may also use unique identifiers, such as the ‘Google Usage ID’, for analytics. |
| DoubleClick | ADS_VISITOR_ID
AEC AID APC APISID DSID + Others |
These cookies are created by Google for the purpose of analysing website traffic and / or advertisements. The cookies listed here are only some of the cookies used by doubleclick.net. There are others which may change over time. |
| Youtube | AEC
NID SOCS VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Secure-YEC YSC |
On our homepage we have a youtube trailer video for rootsireland. Youtube creates these cookies . |
Disable Cookies:
If you feel you would like to disable cookies altogether, you can adjust storage of cookies settings through your web browser by selecting settings.
Please be aware disabling cookies will severely limit your ability to use rootsireland.ie and disable features of many websites across the internet.
Private Browsing Modes delete cookies after the browser is closed and therefore if you use these modes, you cannot keep your cookie preferences or login details for later use. You will have to select your cookie preferences and login again with your email and password.