Cookie Policy - Broadcasting Authority of Ireland

Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good, personalised experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers containing information that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, if you agree. Cookies allow us to ‘remember’ you and amend the site to your preferences so that we can display content that is relevant to you, enabling you to navigate more easily between pages.

Blocking cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can access the “Help” function in your browser to find out more. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

All cookies will expire as per the table included below.

Third Party Cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

What cookies do we use?

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, [cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services].
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website 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.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry	Type	1st or 3rd party
_ga	Google	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor sees the website	2 years	HTTP	3rd
__cfduid	Cloudflare	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.	1 year	HTTP	3rd
lang	BAI	remembers user language preference	Session	HTTP	1st
_gat	Google	Analytics throttle rate	1 day	HTTP	3rd
_gid	Google	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor sees the website	1 day	HTTP	3rd
collect	Google	tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels	Session	Pixel	3rd
_widgetsettings	Twitter	Twitter feed	Persistent	HTML	3rd
i/jot/syndication	Twitter	Twitter feed	Persistent	Pixel	3rd
local_storage_s upport_test	Twitter	The cookie is used in context with the local-storage function in the browser. This function allows the website to load faster by pre- loading certain procedures.	Persistent	HTML	3rd

Cookie Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

Type

1st or 3rd party

Consent switch (on/off)

_ga

Google

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor sees the website

2 years

HTTP

3rd

__cfduid

Cloudflare

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.

1 year

HTTP

3rd

lang

BAI

remembers user language preference

Session

HTTP

1st

_gat

Google

Analytics throttle rate

1 day

HTTP

3rd

_gid

Google

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor sees the website

1 day

HTTP

3rd

collect

Google

tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels

Session

Pixel

3rd

_widgetsettings

Twitter

Twitter feed

Persistent

HTML

3rd

i/jot/syndication

Twitter

Twitter feed

Persistent

Pixel

3rd

local_storage_s upport_test

Twitter

The cookie is used in context with the local-storage function in the browser. This function allows the website to load faster by pre- loading certain procedures.

Persistent

HTML

3rd

Cookie	Duration	Description
_ga	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat	1 minute	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
_gat_UA-27093192-1	1 minute	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.
_gid	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary".
lang		This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
test_cookie	11 months
viewed_cookie_policy	11 months	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
vuid	2 years	These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites.