Cookies

We use cookies on our website to give you the best experience, and to improve our website and advertising.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are saved to your device when you visit a website. They store information about how you use the website, including tracking the pages you visit and remembering your log-in details. The information cookies store doesn’t usually directly identify you, just the device you are using. 

There are different types of cookies, and they can be distinguished based on their origin and lifespan: 

First and third-party cookies 

A cookie set by us is called a first party cookie. When you visit our website, your browser will store these cookies on your device to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.  

We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from other websites, like social media platforms. These cookies can improve the performance of our advertising and marketing efforts, or they are set when we embed content, like YouTube videos, into our website. We do not control the collection or further use of information by third parties. 

Session and persistent cookies 

Session cookies are temporary and only last for as long as you are on a website. When you close your web browser they are erased.   

Persistent or permanent cookies stay on your device until you manually delete them or until your browser deletes them based on the duration period specified in the persistent cookie file. 

More information on all aspects of cookies can be found at https://www.aboutcookies.org/ or on the ICO website. 

How can I manage my cookie settings?  

We respect your right to privacy, so you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Change your cookie settings for Dogs Trust at any time by visiting our cookie preference centre (follow the link in the footer of our website) and adjusting the sliders. 

You can also manage cookie permissions via your internet browser settings, options or preferences menu. If you choose to block websites from placing any cookies on your device, some features of our websites may not work as well as we intended.  

Find out more on disabling cookies:  

https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies 

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/#completed

http://www.youronlinechoices.com/  

Please note that we have no affiliation with, and are not responsible for, third-party websites linked in this policy.  

Why do we use cookies? 

Cookies are used to make websites work better for visitors, and to provide information to the owners of the site about how it’s being used. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.  

Emails  

We use cookies to track some emails, for example to see whether the email has been opened or clicked on. We only use this information to understand open and click rates on our emails to try and improve them and the content you receive from us. Some service emails, like invoices, have no tracking.  

Your IP information  

When you log on to our website, your Internet Protocol (IP) address registers on our servers. Your IP address reveals no information other than the number assigned to you. We use this information only to monitor traffic on our website.  

What cookies do we use?

Changes to this page and further information 

You can find out more about how we use your information to help further our work in protecting dog welfare in our Privacy Policy.  

If you have any questions about the cookies Dogs Trust uses, please contact us: 

• By email
• By post: Dogs Trust, Ashbourne Road, Finglas, Dublin 11 

We will occasionally change our use of cookies and update this policy to reflect that, so please check this policy regularly.  

If we make significant changes in the way we use cookies, we will either notify you of the changes via our website and/or we will directly notify supporters who have chosen to receive communications from us.