Cookies Notice

Cookies and tracking 

You should be aware that each time you visit a website, general information about your visit is retained.  Statistical and other analytical information is collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site. This statistical and analytical information provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who return to this site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page and site at which they exited.

This information helps us monitor traffic on our website, so that we can manage the website's capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this website are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the website. This type of non-personal information and data can be collected through the standard operation of our Internet servers and logs as well as "cookies". One simple way to prevent the use of cookies is to activate the facility which is available in most web browsers that enables you to deny or accept cookies.

However, you should realise that cookies may be necessary in order to provide you with certain features such as the customised delivery of certain information. The following cookies are used by the Institute's website for the various primary purposes:

The Insurance Institute Cookies

Category: Strictly Necessary Cookies

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.

First Party

Host

Name

Details

www.iii.ie

exp_csrf_token

Description:This cookie is used by Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic.

Lifespan:a few seconds

 

Category: Performance Cookies

Performance cookies are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it.

First Party

Host

Name

Details

iii.ie

_gid

Description: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

Lifespan: a day

iii.ie

__utmt_UA-nnnnnnnn

Description: 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. It appears to be a variation of the __utmt cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

Lifespan: a few seconds

iii.ie

_hjid

Description: Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

Lifespan: Session

iii.ie

__utma

Description: This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners.

Lifespan: 2 years

iii.ie

_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn

Description: 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. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

Lifespan: a few seconds

iii.ie

__utmz

Description: This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Lifespan: 6 months

iii.ie

_ga

Description: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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 sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

Lifespan: 2 years

www.iii.ie

exp_last_visit

Description: This cookie name is associated with the website content management system Expression Engine. Most likely to do with tracking or recoding visitor activity.

Lifespan: a year

www.iii.ie

exp_last_activity

Description: This cookie name is associated with the website content management system Expression Engine. Most likely to do with tracking or recoding visitor activity.

Lifespan: a year

www.iii.ie

exp_tracker

Description: This cookie name is associated with the website content management system Expression Engine. Most likely to do with tracking or recoding visitor activity.

Lifespan: Session

iii.ie

__utmc

Description: This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie.

Lifespan: Session

iii.ie

__utmb

Description: This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor.

Lifespan: a few seconds

Third Party

Host

Name

Details

nr-data.net

JSESSIONID

Description: This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications.

Lifespan: Session

 

Category: Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies allow websites to remember the user’s site preferences and choices they make on the site including username, region, and language. They are anonymous and don’t track browsing activity across other websites.

Third Party

Host

Name

Details

hs-analytics.net

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by HubSpot. This particular domain for the company ensures that all HubSpot features and functionality are added to the site correctly.

Lifespan: a month

vimeo.com

vuid

Description: This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing

Lifespan: 2 years

hs-scripts.com

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by Hubspot. This particular domain for the company ensures that all HubSpot features and functionality are added to the site correctly.

Lifespan: a month

 

Category: Targeting Cookies

Targeting and advertising cookies are specifically designed to gather information from users on their device to display advertisements to them based on relevant topics that interest them. They are used by companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. 

First Party

Host

Name

Details

iii.ie

_fbp

Description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

Lifespan: 3 months

Third Party

Host

Name

Details

youtube.com

YSC

Description: 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.

Lifespan: Session

doubleclick.net

IDE

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

Lifespan: a year

hubspot.com

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by Hubspot. This company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services.

Lifespan: a month

hsforms.com

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by Hubspot. The company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services.

Lifespan: a month

facebook.com

fr

Description: Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising.

Lifespan: 3 months

www.facebook.com

  

Description: This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.

Lifespan: Session

youtube.com

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

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

Lifespan: 6 months

hsadspixel.net

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by Hubspot. The company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services.

Lifespan: a month

hsleadflows.net

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by HubSpot to create Lead Flows for marketing and sales purposes.

Lifespan: a month

doubleclick.net

test_cookie

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

Lifespan: a few seconds

hsforms.net

__cfduid

Description: This domain is owned by Hubspot. The company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services.

Lifespan: a month

youtube.com

GPS

Description: 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.

Lifespan: a few seconds

 

Category: Other

First Party

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Name

Details

iii.ie

messagesUtk

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a year

www.iii.ie

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a few seconds

iii.ie

_hjTLDTest

Description: Not available

Lifespan: Session

iii.ie

_utmv#########

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a few seconds

iii.ie

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a few seconds

Third Party

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Name

Details

hsappstatic.net

__cfduid

Description: This domain is used by HubSpot for a chat service directed at targeted users.

Lifespan: a month

script.hotjar.com

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a few seconds

usemessages.com

__cfduid

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a month

hs-banner.com

__cfduid

Description: Not available

Lifespan: a month

 

Last updated: 19 October 2020