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As the body with overall responsibility for managing rugby union football in Ireland, we at the Irish Rugby Football Union (the “IRFU”, “we”, “our” and “us”) will often have reason to process information (“Personal Data”) of those who interact with us directly and others who are involved in the game at various levels in Ireland (“you” or “your”). We respect and value your privacy. That is why we have set out in this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy how and why Personal Data relating to you will be processed by the IRFU and/or on our behalf by our third-party service providers. This Cookie Policy details which cookies are placed on your device(s) when you access our website, irishrugby.ie and its sub-domains and where your consent is relevant where you have consented to such cookies and other tracking technologies. Please consult the Cookies placed by Irish Rugby section of this Cookie Policy to see the complete list of cookies in each Cookie category.

How we use Cookies

Cookie Policy

For the purposes of this policy, the controller of your Personal Data is the Irish Rugby Football Union of 10/12 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. This Cookie Policy is part of our overall Privacy Policy.

This Policy is dated 28/09/2020.

Cookie Consent Management Platform

We have implemented a Cookie Consent Management Platform on our website in order for you to choose which categories of cookies to activate. Where you do not interact with the consent management tool by closing it only strictly necessary cookies will be placed on your device. We place a series of strictly necessary cookies called Optanon to record and manage our users consent when they interact with our consent management platform. This consent will be renewed every 6 months and can be revised at any time when you interact with our permanent cookie icon to manage your choices.

You may return to manage and modify your choices at any time by clicking on the cookie icon on irishrugby.ie

What is a Cookie

An internet cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website which you visit. It may allow a website to track or 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 domain and these are called first party cookies. Where cookies are set by another domain than the website you are visiting these are called third party cookies. For more information about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm. We provide a complete list of cookies placed on your device in this Cookie Policy see the Cookies placed by Irish Rugby section of this Cookie Policy.

Cookies are set by our web server, your browser and the web servers of the third parties whose cookies we deploy on our websites & apps. They can be read, updated or deleted by those same servers each time you visit our website, depending on the type of cookie

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies. Other cookies (such as tracking cookies or authentication cookies) remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your browser. These are known as persistent cookies and enable us and other third parties to remember things about you as a returning visitor.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies certain services, you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. Website load balancing and security cookies also fall under the category of necessary cookies. We also consider the Optanon cookies our consent management tool uses to record manage your consent as strictly necessary cookies.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Google Analytics cookies are an example of performance cookies.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.

Third Party Cookies and Plugins

A third-party cookie is one that is placed on a user’s hard disk by a Web site from a domain other than the one a user is visiting. They may also be used to provide

services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. In the Irish Rugby context these may be placed via plugins from various social networks, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp or Facebook.

To Block Third Party Cookies and Plugins

You can block cookies and plugins set by third parties via our consent management platform. We also recommend users to check the websites of these networks/suppliers to get further information on how they manage cookies, what information their cookies collect and how they can be erased or blocked.

Twitter

YouTube

Facebook

LinkedIn

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

How to disable Cookies and Delete Browser Cache

You can stop cookies being downloaded onto your device by selecting the appropriate settings in our consent management platform. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers’ instructions on how you can do this.

Your Browser will also give you the ability to delete browser cache, the browser cache is a temporary storage location on your computer for files downloaded by your browser to display websites.

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge

Mozilla Firefox

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Opera

Apple Safari / Safari Mobile

To find information relating to other browsers, please visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cookies placed by Irish Rugby

Category: Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. Consent is not required for these cookies. The Table below lists the strictly necessary cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website.

Name

Host – First or Third Party Cookie

Purpose/Description

Expiry

Security

OptanonConsent 

and OptanonAlertBoxClosed

First Party

irishrugby.ie

patrons.irishrugby.ie,

accreditations.irishrugby.ie

These cookies are set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust to manage user choices. They store information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser, when consent is not given.

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

365 days expiry

 

Users prompted to renew consent choices after 180 days for all cookies.

Non-Secure Cookie

PHPSESSID

First Party 

supporters.irishrugby.ie,

patrons.irishrugby.ie,

accreditations.irishrugby.ie,

 

Third Party irishrugby.activehosted.com

Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language.  This is a general-purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.

Session Cookie 

 

0 days expiry

 

Secure Cookie

AWSALB and AWSALBCORS

First Party

patrons.irishrugby.ie,

accreditations.irishrugby.ie

supporters.irishrugby.ie

 

Third Party

Realtime.arena.im

 

Amazon Web Services load balancer cookies which ensure that user sessions are routed to the same container each time so that there is no interruption to data transactions of the logged in and logged out journey.

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

7 days expiry

Secure Cookies

__cfduid

First Party

irishrugby.ie

 

Third Party

activehosted.com

rte.ie

arena.im

liveblogpro.com

iconicframework.com

cloudfare.com

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify
 trusted web traffic

Persistent Cookie 

30-180 days

Secure Cookie

 

Except Non Secure

Arena.im

Category: Functionality Cookies

Functional Cookies help us personalise your experience by remembering your preferences and settings. The Table below lists the functionality cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website.

Name

Host – First or Third Party Cookie

Purpose/Description

Expiry

Security

em_acp_globalauth_

cookie

Third Party

irishrugby.activehosted.com

These cookies are set in order to manage subscriptions to our email marketing system, ActiveCampaign, we use a tracking code. 

Persistent Cookie 

 

0 days expiry

 

 

Secure Cookie

gig_bootstrap_3_

Third Party

Rte.ie

Ensures that users are not intermittently logged out

Persistent Cookie 

 

365 days expiry

 

Non secure Cookie

Dec.cid

 

SM (Session Cookie)

 

MUID

 

__RequestVerificationToken (Session Cookie)

 

AADNonce.forms (Session Cookie)

 

 

Third Party

Forms.office.com

Microsoft Office Forms Functionality Cookies

Dec.cit Persistent Cookie, 92-day expiry. 

 

MUID, persistent 390 days

Others are session Cookies.

 

Non secure Cookie

G_ENABLED_IDPS 

Third Party

Go.Arena.im

Enables Google sign in with Google account

Persistent Cookie 

 

0 days expiry

 

Non secure Cookie

arenaUserCountry

 

Third Party

Go.Arena.im

To determine country which user is from

Persistent Cookie 

 

30 days expiry

 

Non secure Cookie

Csrftoken

 

ig_did

 

mid

Third Party

instagram.com

Social Media Functionality,

Instagram Web security Cookie and Widget cookie

 

Disclosed to Third Party Instagram.

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

Csrftoken

364 days

 

Mid and 

Ig_did 3650 days expiry

 

Secure Cookies

atuserid

Third Party

Rte.ie

 Used to store the visitor anonymous ID placed by third party rte.ie

Persistent Cookie 

 

397 days expiry

 

Non secure Cookie

Category: Performance Cookies

Performance Cookies help us understand how people are using our Sites, so we can better serve them. We sometimes get other companies to analyse how people are using our Sites. These companies might set their own performance cookies. Some examples of how we use these Cookies are:

To Collect information on which web pages visitors go to most often

To ensure that our Sites are working properly

The IRFU uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics collects first party cookies, which are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour. This information is sent to Google and is used to evaluate how our website is being used. This enables IRFU to compile statistical reports.

The IRFU does not associate any data gathered with any other personally identifying information. We will not link or seek to link an IP address with the identity of a computer user.  The Table below lists the performance cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website and when you have consented to these cookies.

Name

Host – First or Third Party Cookie

Purpose/Description

Expiry

Security

_gid

First Party

irishrugby.ie

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

Persistent Cookie 

 

1-day expiry

Non-Secure Cookie

_ga

 

_gaArena

 

First Party

irishrugby.ie

 

 

Third party

 

Liveblogpro.com

 

Arena.im

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

Persistent Cookie 

 

730 days expiry

Non-Secure Cookie

_gat

First Party

irishrugby.ie

 

Third party

Liveblogpro.com

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

Persistent Cookie 

 

10-minute expiry

Non-Secure Cookie

_gat_UA-28951802-4

 

First Party

irishrugby.ie

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, this is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

Persistent Cookie 

 

1-minute expiry

Non-Secure Cookie

Collect (Pixel)

First Party

irishrugby.ie

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s
device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and
 marketing channels.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

 

Session Pixel

 

 

Non-Secure

Cookie 

Atidvisitor

 

Third party

Rte.ie

This cookie is part of the website's analytics system to gather information regarding visitor activity on its websites and its other online services. This information is sent to AT Internet for analysis and used to improve the services it provides to its users.

Persistent Cookie 

 

182-day expiry

 

 

Not Secure

Category: Targeting and Advertising Cookies

Targeting and advertising cookies and other tracking technologies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. These cookies may be either first or third party cookies. The Table below lists the targeting and advertising cookies placed on your device when you visit the Irish Rugby website and when you have consented to these cookies.

Name

Host – First or Third Party Cookie

Purpose/Description

Expiry

Security

GoogleAdServingTest

 

Third Party

Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net

This cookie is used to determine what ads have been shown to the website visitor.

Session

Non-Secure Cookie

__gads

 

First Party

irishrugby.ie

This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

 

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

730-day expiry 

 

 

 

Secure Cookie

metrics_token

Third Party

syndication.twitter.com

 

This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Twitter

 

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

34-day expiry

Non-Secure Cookie

Lang

Third Party

cdn.syndication.twimg.com

This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Twitter

 

 

0-day Expiry

 

Session Cookie

Non-Secure Cookie

test_cookie

 

Third Party

doubleclick.net

Test cookie Targeting used by doubleclick.net

Session Cookie

 

Secure Cookie

NID

 

 

Third Party

Google.com

This domain is owned by Google Inc. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear.

Disclosed to Third Party Google

 

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

183-day expiry

 

 

Secure Cookie 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

 

Third Party

youtube.com

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos

 

Disclosed to Third Party Youtube

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

180-day expiry

Secure Cookie

GPS

Third Party

youtube.com

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Youtube

 

 

0-day Expiry

Secure Cookie

tfw_exp

 

 

tw

 

guest_id

 

gt

Third Party

twitter.com

This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services.  Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Twitter

 

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

0-1-day expiry

 

Guest_id consent renewed after 180 days 

Secure Cookie

YSC

Third Party

youtube.com

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Youtube

 

 

Session Cookie

 

Secure Cookie

IDE

Third Party

Doubleclick.net

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

 

 

Persistent Cookie 

 

390 days

expiry

Secure Cookie

GoogleAdServingTest

 

Third Party

securepubads.g.doubleclick.net

 

Used to determine what Adverts have been served to users.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Google

 

Session Cookie

 

Non

Secure Cookie

refresh_token,

 

sid,

 

su_user_id

 

GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY

 

su_sid

 

su_sdx

 

client_token

 

access_token

 

sdx

 

dmvk

 

v1st

 

ts

 

dmxld

 

usprivacy

Third Party

www.dailymotion.com

dailymotion.com

This domain is owned by Daily Motion. The main business activity is: Video/Advertising. 

 

Disclosed to Third Party Dailymotion

 

0-day Expiry

 

Session Except Persistent Cookies 

V1st, usprivacy and ts 365 days

Majority are non-secure Cookies

Gmid

 

Hasgmid

 

Ucid

 

Gig3pctest (0 day expiry)

 

 

Third Party

gigya.com

Behavioural profiling and marketing services

Persistent Cookie 365 days max expiry

Secure Cookies

em_acp_globalauth_

cookie

Third Party

Activehosted.irishrugby.ie

To manage subscriptions to our email marketing system, ActiveCampaign, we use a tracking code

Persistent Cookies

0 days expiry

Secure Cookie

personalization_id

 

Third Party

twitter.com

This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services.  Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

 

Disclosed to Third Party Twitter

 

 

Persistent Cookie

730 days

Secure Cookie

ANONCHK

Third Party

c.office.com

This is used by Microsoft

To record how the site user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

Persistent Cookie 

 

0 days expiry

 

Non secure Cookie

Disclaimer

The IRFU recognise that we have legal obligations in terms of the collection and use of personal data made available to us.

This website is provided on an “AS IS” basis and the IRFU excludes all warranties or representations of any kind with respect to this website or its contents.

The contents of this website are designed to comply with Irish law. You may be viewing the website in a market in which we do not commonly sell our goods. The IRFU cannot be held responsible for non-compliance with any local advertising or other laws in relation to this website or its contents.

Cookie Policy Changes

Should we decide to change our cookie policy, we will post those changes on this page. We will review quarterly the cookies placed by our website and update our cookies list. At any time before browsing our website, you can update your cookie choices using your browsing settings. If at any time you wish to update the information which we hold about you, or if you wish to stop receiving information from the IRFU, please contact us at dataprivacy@irishrugby.ie.

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