What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. When you first visit, we ask which types of cookies you’re happy for us to use. Essential cookies are always on; analytics and advertising cookies are only set if you agree.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. You can change your cookie choices at any time using the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.
The Cookies We Set
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
This site offers online booking and payment through our booking provider, and some cookies are needed so your booking is remembered between pages and processed securely.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
We also use Hotjar to understand how visitors use our pages, for example where people click and scroll. Hotjar doesn’t record what you type into forms.
We use Google Ads and Meta (Facebook and Instagram) cookies to measure how well our advertising works, for example how many bookings come from an ad.
Google Ads and Meta may also use cookies to show our ads to people who have visited our website. These are only set if you accept advertising cookies.
For more information, see Google’s and Meta’s privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you. If you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com