Effective 17th November 2021
1. Who are we?
We are Irish Residential Properties REIT plc (“IRES REIT”, “we”, “our” or “us”)(Company Registration #: 529737) and our subsidiary IRES Residential Properties Limited (“IRES Residential Properties”) (Company Registration #: 552768), of South Dock House, Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland D02 XW94.
This Cookie Statement explains how IRES REIT and IRES Residential Properties use cookies on the website https://www.iresreit.ie/ and how a processor on our behalf uses cookies on the investor relations microsite https://investorrelations.iresreit.ie/. Please do not use this website (the “Website”) or our services if you are not comfortable with the ways in which we will obtain information about your general internet usage.
2. What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file consisting of letters and numbers that is placed on your computer or other internet enabled device by websites in order to add functionality. Cookies enable our systems to recognise your device. Such recognition helps the efficient operation of our Website.
3. Do we use Cookies?
Yes, we use cookies. We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file that is typically stored on the hard drive of your computer or on your mobile device.
4. When do we use Cookies?
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive or mobile device. For instance, when you return to our Website after logging in, cookies provide information to our Website so that the Website remembers you. Cookies help us to improve our Website, and to deliver a better, more personalised service.
5. What types of Cookies do we use?
We use temporary “session” cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on our Website have already been visited. This information may be used to help us to improve, administer and diagnose problems with our Website and server.
Our Website may also use other technical methods to track visitor usage, including web beacons. Web beacons” are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of a website.
We may also use these technical methods to analyse the traffic patterns on our Website, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our Website. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information directly to us.
Our Website uses Google Analytics a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to collect anonymous traffic data to our Website to help us analyse how users use it and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The information stored in the cookie is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States and then used to evaluate visitors’ use of our Website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for us. Our Website also utilizes an imbedded Google Maps application that may collect user data. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using our Website, you acknowledge the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. We will not (nor will we enable third parties to) use this analytics tool to track or collect any personally identifiable information about users of our Website. For further information on the privacy of Google Analytics data please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
We may also use these technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send to visitors and users of our Website to determine whether such visitors have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. We may collect the information from use of these technical methods in a form that is personally identifiable.
| Cookie name | Description | Expires | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | 6 days | Strictly necessary cookie |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer. | 6 days | Strictly necessary cookie |
| vuid | These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites. | 0 days | Functional Cookie |
| _cfuvid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 0 days | Functional Cookie |
| _cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | 0 days | Functional Cookie |
| vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 1 year | Functional Cookie |
| gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Google Analytics Cookies | 0 days | Targeting Cookie |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 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. | 5 months | Targeting Cookie |
| YSC | 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. | 0 days | Targeting Cookie |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 5 months | Targeting Cookie |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | 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. | 0 days | Targeting Cookie |
| _gid | 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._gid | 0 days | Performance cookie |
| _ga | 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. | 1 year | Performance cookie |
| __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | A few seconds | Strictly Necessary |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. | End of session | Strictly Necessary |
| cf_clearance | The Clearance Cookie stores proof that a challenge was passed. If present, it prevents issuing the challenge again and is needed to access the origin server. | 1 Year | Strictly Necessary |
6. Third Party Cookies
Some cookies may not be controlled by us. For example, when you engage with embedded content or a site page with embedded content from Google Maps, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. Those third-parties control how their cookies function. We can control what we embed, therefore, we limit the embedding of third-party content or tools on our websites to what we assess is expected, beneficial, or required for delivering service to our website visitors and customers.
7. How to manage the use of Cookies
On our websites
On our Irish Residential Properties REIT website www.iresreit.ie pages
When visited, the website blocks the setting of all optional cookies, and provides a Cookie Acceptance banner (at the bottom of the page) which provides visitors the ability to: 1) accept all cookies or 2) restrict the setting of optional cookies, by leaving the banner in place.
On the Investor Relations microsite investorrelations.iresreit.ie pages
When visited, the website blocks the setting of all optional cookies, and provides a pop-up window which provides visitors the ability to: 1) accept all cookies or 2) Customize Cookie Preferences for the setting of cookies on the microsite.
In your web browser
You may refuse or limit the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your web browser. For further information about how to manage cookies, and how to clear previously set cookies, please refer to the “Help” function in your browser. Consequences of turning off all cookies: you may not have access to features that would make your browsing of our Website smoother, and some services may not function properly
For your convenience, these are external resources to help you learn about and control cookies:
- Lifewire.com - How to Delete Cookies in Every Major Browser
- All About Cookies.org
- Cookiepedia.co.uk - How to Manage Cookies
Contact:
Privacy Officer at IRES REIT, South Dock House, Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland D02 XW94 [email protected]
For more information about IRES REIT’s processing of personal information please read our Privacy Statement.