How we use Cookies
As the body with overall responsibility for managing rugby union football in Ireland, we at the Irish Rugby Football Union (the “IRFU”, “we”, “our” and “us”) will often have reason to process information (“Personal Data”) of those who interact with us directly and others who are involved in the game at various levels in Ireland (“you” or “your”). We respect and value your privacy. That is why we have set out in this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy how and why Personal Data relating to you will be processed by the IRFU and/or on our behalf by our third-party service providers. This Cookie Policy details which cookies are placed on your device(s) when you access our website, irishrugby.ie and its sub-domains and where your consent is relevant where you have consented to such cookies and other tracking technologies. Please consult the Cookies placed by Irish Rugby section of this Cookie Policy to see the complete list of cookies in each Cookie category.
How we use Cookies
Cookie Policy
For the purposes of this policy, the controller of your Personal Data is the Irish Rugby Football Union of 10/12 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. This Cookie Policy is part of our overall Privacy Policy.
This Policy is dated 28/09/2020.
Cookie Consent Management Platform
We have implemented a Cookie Consent Management Platform on our website in order for you to choose which categories of cookies to activate. Where you do not interact with the consent management tool by closing it only strictly necessary cookies will be placed on your device. We place a series of strictly necessary cookies called Optanon to record and manage our users consent when they interact with our consent management platform. This consent will be renewed every 6 months and can be revised at any time when you interact with our permanent cookie icon to manage your choices.
You may return to manage and modify your choices at any time by clicking on the cookie icon on irishrugby.ie
What is a Cookie
An internet cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website which you visit. It may allow a website to track or remember your actions or preferences over a period of time, or it may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site. Cookies can be set by the owner of the website domain and these are called first party cookies. Where cookies are set by another domain than the website you are visiting these are called third party cookies. For more information about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm. We provide a complete list of cookies placed on your device in this Cookie Policy see the Cookies placed by Irish Rugby section of this Cookie Policy.
Cookies are set by our web server, your browser and the web servers of the third parties whose cookies we deploy on our websites & apps. They can be read, updated or deleted by those same servers each time you visit our website, depending on the type of cookie
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies. Other cookies (such as tracking cookies or authentication cookies) remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your browser. These are known as persistent cookies and enable us and other third parties to remember things about you as a returning visitor.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies certain services, you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. Website load balancing and security cookies also fall under the category of necessary cookies. We also consider the Optanon cookies our consent management tool uses to record manage your consent as strictly necessary cookies.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Google Analytics cookies are an example of performance cookies.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
Third Party Cookies and Plugins
A third-party cookie is one that is placed on a user’s hard disk by a Web site from a domain other than the one a user is visiting. They may also be used to provide
services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. In the Irish Rugby context these may be placed via plugins from various social networks, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp or Facebook.
To Block Third Party Cookies and Plugins
You can block cookies and plugins set by third parties via our consent management platform. We also recommend users to check the websites of these networks/suppliers to get further information on how they manage cookies, what information their cookies collect and how they can be erased or blocked.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
How to disable Cookies and Delete Browser Cache
You can stop cookies being downloaded onto your device by selecting the appropriate settings in our consent management platform. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers’ instructions on how you can do this.
Your Browser will also give you the ability to delete browser cache, the browser cache is a temporary storage location on your computer for files downloaded by your browser to display websites.
To find information relating to other browsers, please visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Cookies placed by Irish Rugby
Category: Strictly Necessary
Strictly Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. Consent is not required for these cookies. The Table below lists the strictly necessary cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website.
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Name |
Host – First or Third Party Cookie |
Purpose/Description |
Expiry |
Security |
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OptanonConsent and OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
First Party irishrugby.ie patrons.irishrugby.ie, accreditations.irishrugby.ie |
These cookies are set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust to manage user choices. They store information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser, when consent is not given.
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Persistent Cookie
365 days expiry
Users prompted to renew consent choices after 180 days for all cookies. |
Non-Secure Cookie |
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PHPSESSID |
First Party supporters.irishrugby.ie, patrons.irishrugby.ie, accreditations.irishrugby.ie,
Third Party irishrugby.activehosted.com |
Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general-purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
Session Cookie
0 days expiry
|
Secure Cookie |
|
AWSALB and AWSALBCORS |
First Party patrons.irishrugby.ie, accreditations.irishrugby.ie supporters.irishrugby.ie
Third Party Realtime.arena.im
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Amazon Web Services load balancer cookies which ensure that user sessions are routed to the same container each time so that there is no interruption to data transactions of the logged in and logged out journey.
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Persistent Cookie
7 days expiry |
Secure Cookies |
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__cfduid |
First Party irishrugby.ie
Third Party activehosted.com rte.ie arena.im liveblogpro.com iconicframework.com cloudfare.com |
Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify |
Persistent Cookie 30-180 days |
Secure Cookie
Except Non Secure Arena.im |
Category: Functionality Cookies
Functional Cookies help us personalise your experience by remembering your preferences and settings. The Table below lists the functionality cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website.
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Name |
Host – First or Third Party Cookie |
Purpose/Description |
Expiry |
Security |
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em_acp_globalauth_ cookie |
Third Party irishrugby.activehosted.com |
These cookies are set in order to manage subscriptions to our email marketing system, ActiveCampaign, we use a tracking code. |
Persistent Cookie
0 days expiry
|
Secure Cookie |
|
gig_bootstrap_3_ |
Third Party Rte.ie |
Ensures that users are not intermittently logged out |
Persistent Cookie
365 days expiry
|
Non secure Cookie |
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Dec.cid
SM (Session Cookie)
MUID
__RequestVerificationToken (Session Cookie)
AADNonce.forms (Session Cookie)
|
Third Party Forms.office.com |
Microsoft Office Forms Functionality Cookies |
Dec.cit Persistent Cookie, 92-day expiry.
MUID, persistent 390 days Others are session Cookies.
|
Non secure Cookie |
|
G_ENABLED_IDPS |
Third Party Go.Arena.im |
Enables Google sign in with Google account |
Persistent Cookie
0 days expiry
|
Non secure Cookie |
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arenaUserCountry
|
Third Party Go.Arena.im |
To determine country which user is from |
Persistent Cookie
30 days expiry
|
Non secure Cookie |
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Csrftoken
ig_did
mid |
Third Party instagram.com |
Social Media Functionality, Instagram Web security Cookie and Widget cookie
Disclosed to Third Party Instagram.
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Persistent Cookie
Csrftoken 364 days
Mid and Ig_did 3650 days expiry
|
Secure Cookies |
|
atuserid |
Third Party Rte.ie |
Used to store the visitor anonymous ID placed by third party rte.ie |
Persistent Cookie
397 days expiry
|
Non secure Cookie |
Category: Performance Cookies
Performance Cookies help us understand how people are using our Sites, so we can better serve them. We sometimes get other companies to analyse how people are using our Sites. These companies might set their own performance cookies. Some examples of how we use these Cookies are:
To Collect information on which web pages visitors go to most often
To ensure that our Sites are working properly
The IRFU uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics collects first party cookies, which are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour. This information is sent to Google and is used to evaluate how our website is being used. This enables IRFU to compile statistical reports.
The IRFU does not associate any data gathered with any other personally identifying information. We will not link or seek to link an IP address with the identity of a computer user. The Table below lists the performance cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website and when you have consented to these cookies.
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Name |
Host – First or Third Party Cookie |
Purpose/Description |
Expiry |
Security |
|
_gid |
First Party irishrugby.ie |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.
Disclosed to Third Party Google |
Persistent Cookie
1-day expiry |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
_ga
_gaArena
|
First Party irishrugby.ie
Third party
Liveblogpro.com
Arena.im |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports
Disclosed to Third Party Google |
Persistent Cookie
730 days expiry |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
_gat |
First Party irishrugby.ie
Third party Liveblogpro.com |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes
Disclosed to Third Party Google |
Persistent Cookie
10-minute expiry |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
_gat_UA-28951802-4
|
First Party irishrugby.ie |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, this is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.
Disclosed to Third Party Google |
Persistent Cookie
1-minute expiry |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
Collect (Pixel) |
First Party irishrugby.ie |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s
Disclosed to Third Party Google
|
Session Pixel
|
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
Atidvisitor
|
Third party Rte.ie |
This cookie is part of the website's analytics system to gather information regarding visitor activity on its websites and its other online services. This information is sent to AT Internet for analysis and used to improve the services it provides to its users. |
Persistent Cookie
182-day expiry
|
Not Secure |
Category: Targeting and Advertising Cookies
Targeting and advertising cookies and other tracking technologies 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. These cookies may be either first or third party cookies. The Table below lists the targeting and advertising cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website and when you have consented to these cookies.
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Name |
Host – First or Third Party Cookie |
Purpose/Description |
Expiry |
Security |
|
GoogleAdServingTest
|
Third Party Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net |
This cookie is used to determine what ads have been shown to the website visitor. |
Session |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
__gads
|
First Party irishrugby.ie |
This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue.
Disclosed to Third Party Google
|
Persistent Cookie
730-day expiry
|
Secure Cookie |
|
metrics_token |
Third Party syndication.twitter.com
|
This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
Disclosed to Third Party Twitter
|
Persistent Cookie
34-day expiry |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
Lang |
Third Party cdn.syndication.twimg.com |
This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
Disclosed to Third Party Twitter
|
0-day Expiry
Session Cookie |
Non-Secure Cookie |
|
test_cookie
|
Third Party doubleclick.net |
Test cookie Targeting used by doubleclick.net |
Session Cookie
|
Secure Cookie |
|
NID
|
Third Party Google.com |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. Disclosed to Third Party Google
|
Persistent Cookie
183-day expiry
|
Secure Cookie |
|
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
|
Third Party youtube.com |
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos
Disclosed to Third Party Youtube
|
Persistent Cookie
180-day expiry |
Secure Cookie |
|
GPS |
Third Party youtube.com |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Disclosed to Third Party Youtube
|
0-day Expiry |
Secure Cookie |
|
tfw_exp
tw
guest_id
gt |
Third Party twitter.com |
This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
Disclosed to Third Party Twitter
|
Persistent Cookie
0-1-day expiry
Guest_id consent renewed after 180 days |
Secure Cookie |
|
YSC |
Third Party youtube.com |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Disclosed to Third Party Youtube
|
Session Cookie
|
Secure Cookie |
|
IDE |
Third Party Doubleclick.net |
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange
Disclosed to Third Party Google
|
Persistent Cookie
390 days expiry |
Secure Cookie |
|
GoogleAdServingTest
|
Third Party securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
|
Used to determine what Adverts have been served to users.
Disclosed to Third Party Google
|
Session Cookie
|
Non Secure Cookie |
|
refresh_token,
sid,
su_user_id
GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY
su_sid
su_sdx
client_token
access_token
sdx
dmvk
v1st
ts
dmxld
usprivacy |
Third Party dailymotion.com |
This domain is owned by Daily Motion. The main business activity is: Video/Advertising.
Disclosed to Third Party Dailymotion
|
0-day Expiry
Session Except Persistent Cookies V1st, usprivacy and ts 365 days |
Majority are non-secure Cookies |
|
Gmid
Hasgmid
Ucid
Gig3pctest (0 day expiry)
|
Third Party gigya.com |
Behavioural profiling and marketing services |
Persistent Cookie 365 days max expiry |
Secure Cookies |
|
em_acp_globalauth_ cookie |
Third Party Activehosted.irishrugby.ie |
To manage subscriptions to our email marketing system, ActiveCampaign, we use a tracking code |
Persistent Cookies 0 days expiry |
Secure Cookie |
|
personalization_id
|
Third Party twitter.com |
This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
Disclosed to Third Party Twitter
|
Persistent Cookie 730 days |
Secure Cookie |
|
ANONCHK |
Third Party c.office.com |
This is used by Microsoft To record how the site user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Persistent Cookie
0 days expiry
|
Non secure Cookie |
Disclaimer
The IRFU recognise that we have legal obligations in terms of the collection and use of personal data made available to us.
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Cookie Policy Changes
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