A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. Cookies have a number of uses. They are used to ensure that a website functions properly as you might expect it to. Cookies also allow websites to ‘remember’ your browsing habits or preferences over a period of time. Cookies may be set by Glenstal Abbey as the website operator directly (“first-party cookies”) or in some cases, by another third-party service provider (“third-party cookies”). In the latter scenario, cookies are deployed for social media, advertising or analytics purposes. Glenstal Abbey will only be able to directly recognise and read the information contained on first-party cookies.
There are other technologies which we deploy which track behaviour on our website. ‘Tracker Pixels’ are a means of allowing us to check whether you have viewed our content. These “pixels” are essentially tiny, invisible images on our web pages that, once loaded, will communicate your interaction with our content. This allows Glenstal.com and our partners to gauge the validity of material being presented to you.
We avail of third-party technologies across our site. These technologies help us to understand how you use the site and the ways in which we can improve your user experience. These technologies may track certain information such as the pages you visit across our site as well as how long your visit lasts. This allows us to continue providing engaging content.
We also use social media plugins on this site that allow you to view videos and otherwise interact with certain content. In order for these technologies to work, trusted third parties will set cookies and tracker pixels throughout our site. Once enabled, these technologies may be used to enhance your profile or to contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. For any third-party technology used on our site, we will provide a link to that third-party’s respective cookie/privacy policy for your information. We encourage our visitors to review these policies in advance of granting consent to deployment.
For each visitor to our site, we automatically gather certain potentially identifying information and store it. This information includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, your operating system, date/time stamp, processor or device serial number, unique device identifier, and clickstream data. We collect this information on an individual basis and in aggregate, or combined form.
We use cookies to provide you with the best user experience on our website, this includes:
We avail of both first and third-party technologies across our site. Glenstal Abbey takes our visitors’ right to privacy seriously in keeping with our obligations. Should you consent to the deployment of any category of optional technology, we will record your consent for a period of no longer than 6 months subject to interaction; at which point these technologies will be disabled. You will then be prompted to refresh you consent.
These cookies are necessary for the website to function. They are set for security purposes and in response to actions made by you which amount to a service request such as logging in to our platform or as you fill out forms on our site. You have the option to disable these cookies via your browser settings, but should you do so, certain aspects of our site will no longer function. For more information about the specific technologies we use for this purpose, please see below.
Host | Provider | Name | Description | Duration |
Glenstal.com | Glenstal | Glenstal.com | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months |
Glenstal.com | Glenstal | elementor | The website’s WordPress theme uses this cookie. It allows the website owner to implement or change website’s content in real time | Indefinitely |
Glenstal.com | AEC | This cookie is used by Google to ensure requests within a browsing session are made by user and not by other sites. | 6 months | |
Glenstal.com | SIDCC | This cookie is set by Google. Used by Google to provide identification of trusted web traffic. | 1 year | |
Glenstal.com | Glenstal | LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to record when login information is required by the user. | 6 months |
Should you wish to disable these cookies via your browser settings, please see the following links relating to your particular browser.
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Host | Provider | Name | Description | Duration |
Glenstal.com | Secure-1PAPISID | This cookie is set by google and is used to store user preferences and information | 2 years |
when viewing pages with Google maps. | ||||
Glenstal.com | Secure-1PSID | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests to show relevant and personalised Google advertising. | 2 years | |
Glenstal.com | Secure-ENID | This cookie is used by Google. It is used to remember the user’s preferences and other information. | 1 year | |
Glenstal.com | SOCS | This cookie is used by Google. It is used to store a user’s state regarding their cookie’s choices. | 1 year | |
Glenstal.com | Glenstal | CONSENT | This cookie is used by our site to detect if a visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. Required for GDPR compliance. | 2 years |
Glenstal.com | YouTube | _Secure-YEC | Stores preferences for video player using embedded YouTube video. | 1 year |
Glenstal.com | YouTube | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Stores users’ cookie consent state for the current domain | 6 months |
These cookies allow use to determine the number of visits to our site as well as where that traffic originates. This helps us understand which pages are the most popular as well as how it is that you come to view them. For example, when enabled, we use Google Analytics for aggregated, anonymized website traffic analysis. In order to track your session usage, Google drops a cookie (_ga) with a randomly-generated ClientID in your browser. This ID is anonymized and contains no identifiable information like email, phone number, name, etc. We also send Google your masked IP Address. We use GA to track aggregated website behaviour, such as what pages you looked at, for how long, etc. This information is important to us for improving the user experience and determining site effectiveness.
This information will not be combined by Glenstal Abbey for profiling purposes, however, certain third parties such as Google may use this information in aggregate form for the purposes outlined in their respective privacy notices. If you disable this category of cookie our site will still work, though its improvement over time will be hampered.
For more information on Google Analytics as well as how you may opt-out of being tracked on this and other sites, please see the following links:
For more information on the specific technologies we and our partners use for this purpose, please see below.
Host | Provider | Name | Description | Duration |
Glenstal.com | _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors | 6 months | |
Glenstal.com | _gid | This cookie is hosted by Google. | 2 years | |
Glenstal.com | SAPISID | This cookie is hosted by Google. This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 1 year | |
Glenstal.com | _gcl-au | Installed by Google Analytics. Store information about visitors to the website to create analytic reports | 1 year | |
Glenstal.com | _ga_2K9 WZRLGF M | 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. | Indefinitel y | |
Glenstal.com | _gat_gtag _UA_434 555 | 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 | Indefinitel y |
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. |
These cookies and other tracking technologies may be set through our site by either Glenstal Abbey or our advertising and social media partners. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. These technologies also allow you to view and interact with our social media content across the site such as viewing our Vimeo and YouTube videos. These technologies operate by uniquely identifying your browser and internet device such as your phone or desktop and monitor specific activity across multiple sites. In the majority of cases, you have the ability to opt-out of third-party cross-site tracking via the links provided.
For more information on the specific technologies, we and our partners use for this purpose, including how your information may be further processed, please see below.
Host | Provider | Name | Description | Duration |
Glenstal.com | XUV | This cookie is set by Twitter – The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile | 6 months | |
Glenstal.com | Youtube | YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. | Session |
Glenstal.com | Youtube | Visitor_info1_LIVE | This cookie is set by YouTube to keep track of user preferences for YouTube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | 6 months |
Glenstal.com | _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to analyse user traffic that connects users to linked Facebook pages within the site. | 3 months |
Glenstal.com | SSID | Cookies enabled by Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. | 2 years | |
Glenstal.com | HSID | This is a cookie used by Google that contains a digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. | 2 years | |
Glenstal.com | NID | This cookie is used by Google. It is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. | 6 months | |
Glenstal.com | SIDCC | This cookie is used by Google. This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic. | 1 year | |
Glenstal.com | DV | This is a cookie used by Google. It provides ad delivery and retargeting. | 1 day |
We regularly scan our website using a third-party tool to maintain a record of the tracking technologies we deploy. Glenstal Abbey only processes your personal information in accordance with this notice as well as our Privacy Notice.
You may also contact our Data Protection Officer by writing in to: dataprotection@glenstal.com
You may also contact our Data Protection Officer by writing in to: Data Protection Officer,
Murroe Co. Limerick,
V94 A725,
Ireland
Should you wish to make a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data or are unsatisfied with how we have handled your information, you have the right to lodge a
complaint with the Irish Supervisory Authority. You may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner via their online form.
Glenstal Abbey is home to a community of Benedictine monks in County Limerick, Ireland, and is a place of prayer, work, education and hospitality. The monastery sits alongside a popular guesthouse and a boarding school for boys, housed within a 19th century Normanesque castle amidst five hundred magnificent acres of farmland, forest, lakes and streams. more
