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Last updated: 18 June 2025
This Cookie Notice explains how we use Cookies on our websites. It is a declaration of the active cookies on our websites, their purpose and what they track. This Notice also provides you with information on how to opt out of the cookies being used.
Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with our cookie practices and let us know if you have any questions by sending us an email to dataprotection@pobal.ie or submitting a request through the contact us form on our website.
We have tried to keep this policy as simple as possible, but if you are not familiar with terms such as cookies, IP addresses and browsers, then you can read about them here.
What are Cookies?
Like many organisations, we use technology on our websites to collect information that helps us enhance your experience and our services. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. The cookies we use allow our websites to work, or work more efficiently, as well as help us understand what information is most useful to our visitors.
What types of Cookies do we use?
Special Advocate use the following cookies on our websites. A detailed list of each cookie is listed at the end of this notice.
- Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies enable core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
- Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage.
- Non-Functional Cookies
Used for displaying externally hosted PDF documents within the pages of this website.
- Third Party Cookies
These cookies are set by a website other than the website you are visiting, usually as a result of some embedded content such as a video, a social media share or a like button or a contact map. You should be aware that these cookies are not controlled by Special Advocate, they are controlled by the third party themselves and so should be controlled from within their pages:
- YouTube:https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en
- Twitter:https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
- Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy
- Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/policy/cookies/
Managing Cookies
Our website has a cookie management tool that facilitates acceptance and rejection of cookies. The cookie management tool is available by clicking the “C” in the bottom left corner of any page on the website.
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies on all websites or not. Different browsers have different settings available to you. Below we have provided links to popular browsers on how to access these settings. Generally, your browser will offer the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“Third Party Cookies”), or those from specific websites:
- Managing cookies on Fire Fox
- Managing cookies on Safari
- Managing cookies on Chrome
- Managing cookies on MS Edge
For further information about how to turn off or withdraw cookie acceptance, please refer to the “Help” function in your browser.
What specific Cookies do we use and why?
We use the following Cookies on our websites:
Necessary Cookies
| Cookie | Cookie Name | Retention | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The “Cookie” | CookieControl | 90 Days | To remember and store the user’s cookie preferences. |
| NID Cookie | NID | 6 Months | Most Google users will have a preferences cookie called ‘NID’ in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. |
Third Party Cookies
| Cookie | Cookie Name | Retention | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube cookies | Consent | 8 Months | We embed videos from YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 Months | ||
| YSC | Session | ||
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 8 Months | ||
| Remote_sid | Session | ||
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 Months | ||
| Twitter Cookies | tfw_exp | 14 Days | We Embed Tweets from our official Twitter account on our websites. To find out more please visit: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| personalization_id | 24 Months | ||
| eu_cn | 12 Months | ||
| _ga | 24 Months | ||
| _twitter_sess | Session | ||
| ct0 | Session | ||
| external_referer | 7 Days | ||
| gt | Session | ||
| guest_id | 24 Months | ||
| Vimeo cookies | _fbp | 3 Months | We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the video to play and to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals. To Find out more please visit: https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy. |
| _ga | 24 Months | ||
| _uetvid | 16 Days | ||
| _gcl_au | 3 Months | ||
| vuid | 24 Months |
Amendments to this Cookie Notice
We will post any changes to our Cookie Notice on the Website and when doing so will change the effective date at the top of this Cookie Notice. We will also update the information available on our cookie management tool where applicable.