Information on our use of cookies

This website courses.inss.ie uses cookies to help us provide our users with a good experience when they browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store in the user’s browser or on their computer hard drive if they agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to the hard drive of the user’s computer.

Types of cookies and how we use them

We regularly scan our website for cookies and keep our cookie list up to date. We classify cookies into four categories:

  • Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are necessary for our website to function. They include, for example, cookies that enable visitors to our website to enter secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.-sbjs_migrations Expiration: Session-sbjs_session Expiration: 1 hours-wc_cart_hash_bd87924c57826f1692b426d454365050 Expiration: Session-storeApiNonce Expiration: Session-elementor Expiration: Session Description: To give functionality to the website.-illow-consent Expiration: Session Description: This cookie is used to keep track of a given consent in the platform
  • Analytics/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see 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 that users easily find what they are looking for.-sbjs_current_add Expiration: Session-sbjs_first_add Expiration: Session-sbjs_current Expiration: Session-sbjs_first Expiration: Session-_ga Expiration: 400 days Description: ID used to identify users-_gid Expiration: 1 days Description: ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity-ga Expiration: 400 days Description: ID used to identify users-gat_gtag Expiration: 0 hours Description: Used to set and get tracking data-dc_gtm Expiration: 0 hours Description: Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests-gat Expiration: 0 hours Description: Used to set and get tracking data
  • Cookie preferences. These are used to recognise users when they return to our website. This allows us to personalise our content for them and remember their preferences (e.g. their choice of language or region).-sbjs_udata Expiration: Session-woodmart_recently_viewed_products Expiration: Session-test_cookie Expiration: 1 hours Description: Signals to websites that the user’s browser supports features related to the deprecation of third-party cookies.
  • Marketing cookies. These cookies record users’ visits to our website, the pages they have visited and the links they have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to the interests of our website visitors.-_gcl_au Expiration: 90 days Description: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.-IDE Expiration: 390 days Description: This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite

Depending on the user’s location, they may opt out of each category of cookie (except necessary cookies) by clicking the “set custom permission” in the cookie banner on our website.