This is the Cookie Policy for St Colmcille’s (Kells) Credit Union Ltd, accessible from https://www.kellscu.ie

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites St Colmcilles (Kells) Credit Union website uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve member experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also show how members can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

How We Use Cookies

KCU uses cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site.  DPC clearly state that website users cannot be influenced towards accepting cookies. Cookies consent should be ‘Unambiguous’ and ‘freely-given’.

Disabling Cookies

Members can prevent the setting of cookies by selecting the ‘Reject All’ or ‘Manage Cookies’ options on the Cookies banner when first visiting our website.. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that are visited. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if members are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

• Forms related cookies

When members submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

• Site preferences cookies

In order to provide members with an improved experience on the KCU website we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever members interact with a page that is affected by their preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• The KCU site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long members spend on the site or pages visited which helps us to understand how we can improve the site.
• From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations users appreciate the most.
• As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
• Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Cookies We Use

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you.

However, if you are still looking for more information you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: info@kellscu.ie
• Phone: 046 9240299