Cookies Policy

IThis Website may use “cookies” for optimizing our services. Cookies do not generally contain personal information, unless you have provided this information on the Website.

What is a “cookie”?

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie is sent back to the website by the browser to notify the website of the user's previous activity.

We use the following cookies:

a) Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example cookies that enable you to log into certain areas of our Website.

b) Analytic and Performance Cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example by ensuring the users are finding what they are looking for easily.

c) First Targeted Cookies
These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links that you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website more relevant to your interest. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

d) Third Party Cookies
These are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site. Third party advertising cookies may be used to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to elves.ie and are controlled by the third-party companies.

The following are links to the main third party advertising, analytics, targeting, personalisation, survey and commenting platforms we use, each of which provides instructions on how to disable cookies.

Google Ads: https://ads.google.com/
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/index.html

If you would like to disable "third party" cookies generated by advertisers or providers of targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party's website and getting them to generate a one-time "no thanks" cookie that will stop any further cookies being written to your machine. You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising bodies for more information on how to opt out of these cookies: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1

What are they used for?

• To gather Website tracking information. We track how many people have visited our Website and how often as well as if they are new or repeat visitors.
• To track responses to our online advertising formats in relation to clicks.

By using this Website you are agreeing to the use of cookies as detailed above.

Enabling and disabling cookies and similar technologies

You have the choice whether to accept or decline cookies on websites you visit by changing the settings in your internet browser.

These settings will normally be found in the “options” or “preferences” section of your browser.

Please note that certain features and the full functionality of this Website will not be available once cookies are disabled.