Cookie policy

Information about our use of cookies

sovereignsecurity.ie (Our website) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Type Name Possible Values Purpose Expiry More Info
Session cookie 1st party PHPSESSID Unique number To identify you as a unique user as you move from page to page on the website When you close your web browser.
Google analytics cookie 1st party _ga Unique number Used to count unique visitors 2 years more info
Google analytics cookie 1st party _gid Unique number Use to count unique visitors per day 24 hours more info
Google analytics cookie 1st party _gat 1 Used to throttle requests to google analytics 1 minute more info

 

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By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described above.