Introduction
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with government services so we can make them better
You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the BBC article What are cookies?
If you’d like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, find out more at All About Cookies.
First-party cookies
Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
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_cfduid | CloudFlare | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. | Session | Essential |
wordpress_ | WordPress | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. | session | Functional |
wordpress_logged_in_ | WordPress | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session | Functional |
wordpress_test_ | WordPress | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session | Functional |
wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | WordPress test cookie to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. This cookie is used on the front-end, even if you are not logged in. | session | Functional |
wp-settings- | WordPress | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | Functional |
wp-settings-time- | WordPress | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | Functional |
moove_gdpr_popup | Cookie preference | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on inovaeducation.com. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. | 1 year | Functional |
Third-party cookies
Analytics
The HSE Careers website uses Google Analytics and SiteImprove Analytics to allow us to measure how the site is used and to improve the service.
The following cookies are served:
Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
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nmstat | Google Tag Manager/SiteImprove | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor’s experience. | 999 days | Usage |
_ga | Google Tag Manager | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | Usage |
_gid | Google Tag Manager | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | Usage |
_dc_gtm_UA-324220-1 | Google Tag Manager | This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account. | Usage | |
_gat_UA-324220-1 | Google 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. 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. | Usage | |
_gali | Google Analytics | Usage |
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.