Cookie policy
Thank you for reading our cookie policy. We are committed to ensure our website and the use of cookies, complies with Irish laws on privacy and data protection. This policy sets out the types of cookies we use, the exact cookies used on our website, whether we are using any third-party cookies, how you can control our use of cookies, what their expiry dates are and how you can get in contact with us for more information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files of information, usually containing letters and numbers, that websites store on your browser, or the hard drive of your computer. You must however agree to these cookies being stored for them to be stored on your device.
Our website needs to use these cookies so we can understand what works well with our website, and what we can do to improve. These cookies also allow us to distinguish you from other website visitors, helping us to provide you with a seamless experience on our site.
What type of cookies do you use?
We use the following cookie types:
Essential Cookies – These can also be known as Strictly Necessary Cookies, and they’re very important for us to make sure our website runs as it should. As a result, these cookies are always automatically enabled, to make sure our website works sufficiently. Some examples of uses of essential cookies include the distribution of website traffic across multiple servers – without the website speed being affected.
Analytical Cookies – These can also be known as Performance Cookies, and collects personal data to power our site analytics, including: information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps. This enables us to understand what works well on our website, and what doesn’t work so well, so we can continuously improve the site for visitors. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Functionality Cookies – These make your experience on our website easier by remembering user preferences, and simplifying interactions. Some examples of what these cookies enable include remembering your language preferences, font sizes, your log-in details, and items in your shopping basket.
Advertising Cookies – These can also be known as Targeting Cookies. These cookies track your visits to our website, including the pages you visit, and any links you have followed from said pages. This information is then used to display adverts to you, based on what we have learned about your preferences from these cookies. To provide you with the best, tailored browsing experience, we may share this information with third-parties, so they can display adverts based on what we know you like.
What exact cookies do you use on your website?
We’ve provided a detailed breakdown below of all the cookies we use on our website, and why we use them.
Crumb: Prevents cross=site request forgery (CSFR). It is a cookie and its duration is for the session.
ss_cvr: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site. It is a cookie and its duration is two years.
ss_cvt: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site. It is a cookies and its duration is 30 minutes.
ss_marketingCookiesAllowed: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Marketing cookies on their browser. It is a cookies and its duration is 30 days.
ss_performanceCookiesAllowed: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Performance and Analytics cookies on their browser. It is a cookie and its duration is 30 days.
Do you use any Third-Party Cookies?
Third party cookies are not set by us, but are set by other domains than the website you visit. These cookies are placed on website visitor’s devices by third-party outlets. Common examples of these third-parties can include social media platforms, analytical providers, and advertising networks. We have no control over the cookies third-parties use. We work with the following third-parties who may use the following cookies:
tfpsi - Squarespace.com is the third-party provider. Squarespace is an content management system, or CMS and is what is used to host our website (www.pathwayspsychology.ie). This cookie sends for secure connections only and its duration is 30 minutes.
_eoi, _gads, _gpi - these cookies are used by the third-party provider psychologytoday.com to collect information how visitors use our website and navigate to the third party website psychologytoday.com. They are cookies and have duration up to a year.
Universal Analytics (Google)_ga, _gali, _gat, _gid - these cookies are used by Google to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
How can I control these cookies?
You are able to control your use of cookies on our website on our cookie banner. You can do the following:
Accept all
Decline all
Manage cookies and select certain cookies you wish to use, and reject other cookies and;
Deactivate the use of third-party cookies
You can select “Decline all” in our cookie banner. But there are “Necessary” cookies required to enable core site functionality and to remember user preferences and choices, such as language preferences or customized settings, which are always on, even if you select “Decline all”. You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser. You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
How do I ask you for more information?
If you’d like to learn more about our use of cookies, or if you have any questions, please get in touch with us on the following details: hello@pathwayspsychology.ie. We will ensure we get back to you within two working weeks.