Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

This website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text marker stored on your computer that enables us to track the use of our website. We use cookies to help us understand what our users’ interests and preferences are to ensure the website is as user friendly as possible.

A cookie is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device. It allows a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a length of time.

Further information on cookies can be found at

http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

How do we use cookies?

The primary Alzheimer Society of Ireland site, alzheimer.ie and associated sites, virtualdementiahub.ie and store.alzheimer.ie use cookies in several places, and we’ve listed the cookies below, indicating the type and duration. You can also get a more detailed description of each within the “cookies settings” section below. In addition to cookies, other tracking technologies are used, these are primarily integrated either by iframes or scripts directly on the site. In either case, these in turn are managed by the cookie management system.

The ASI has introduced Google Analytics to assist us in redeveloping our website to ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format.

We use cookies to help us compile anonymous data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

This website uses Google Analytics to gather anonymous statistics about visitors to the site and which pages are visited.

If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly.

IMPORTANT: If you choose to allow performance cookies on this site, Google Analytics may transfer your IP address / online identifiers to servers in the United States.

In the US, Google is subject to section 702 FISA (US intelligence gathering) as an “electronic communications service provider”.

Managing and disabling cookies

Any cookie that is not Strictly Necessary is not active by default and does not send information to the resource it is called from. Accepting all cookies, makes all cookies active. You can modify your cookie preferences for the website at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookie Settings’ button below.

Types of cookies used on this website