What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. It may allow a website “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 or in some cases by third-party services the website owner allows to present other information, run content or provide other functionality such as analytics.
Further information on cookies can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
How does TY News use cookies including third party cookies?
TY News (https://tynews.anywherestudio.ie/) uses cookies to help improve your experience on our site and to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors. We use cookies for functionality that are strictly necessary for services that are explicitly requested by the user for their session as per Regulation 5(5), SI 336 of 2011 (the ePrivacy Regulations). We also use cookies for advertising, analytics and social media purposes.
- Certain cookies are essential to the proper functioning of TY News systems.
- We use analytics cookies to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors.
- Cookies are not used by this website to store any personal information other than the IP address you use when accessing our website.
- We use session cookies to make navigation through the website smoother. Session cookies are used to deliver the basic functions of a website. Session cookies are stored temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed.
- We use persistent cookies when we need to manage return visits. This type of cookie is saved on your computer for a fixed period of 6 months and is not deleted when the browser is closed. For example, we use this type of cookie to know how many repeat visits the site receives compared with new visits.
- Security – for staff and registered students of TY News, these cookies allow secure access to your account.
- We use information about the device type and capabilities for delivering content, e.g. to deliver the right size creative or video file in a format supported by the device.
We use a service called Silktide to collect data about the number of visits to pages of our site, and the journey of visitors through the site. This helps us to optimise the site design. The Silktide cookies used on our site are listed in the table below.
Cookies and collection and use of technical information
Information on internet traffic is collected. This technical information is used to ensure the smooth running of the TY News website and for statistical or administrative purposes. It is not used to gather identifiable personal information on individual website visitors, except in so far as this is permitted by law and may be necessary in order to prevent or detect problems or offences in relation to the operation of the website.
This information may be used for the purposes of evaluating your use of the TY News website and to improve our website service to you. It is stored and used in the aggregate only and is not used to obtain personal data or to contact you personally.
Third party cookies
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or an embedded google map. For example, when you visit a page with content embedded from, Google, X, YouTube or Facebook, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. For example, Facebook sets cookies via our website if you ‘like’ one of the posts on our site and X sets cookies via our website if you “tweet” one of the posts on our site.
We embed videos from YouTube across our site. When you watch these videos on our website, YouTube may store cookies used for a range of purposes. For more information visit YouTube/Google Privacy information
Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) functionality has been implemented on the website for the in-page search box. The Google CSE may deliver cookies. The CSE is covered by the Google Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
As these are third party providers, we do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functionality offered by these third parties.
To see full details of the cookies we use [see table below] page.
Managing cookies
Within your browser, you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you, and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers’ instructions on how you can do this. Generally, your browser will offer you 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.
Web browsing
By visiting our website, the only personal data you disclose is the IP address you use when accessing our website. The information collected about your visit is limited to technical data such as:
- the Internet address (or IP address) of the device you used to access this website
- whether you reached the site using a search engine or if you clicked a link on another website
- the type of web-browser you used
- the type of device you used to access the Internet.
We use this data for administrative and statistical purposes as well as to help us improve our website functionality.
Your choices regarding cookies
With the exception of strictly necessary cookies, which do not require consent, you can choose which types of cookies you wish to allow in the Silktide cookie widget.