General statement
DCU Business School fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your consent. Any personal information which you volunteer to the School will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2018.
How long will we hold onto your Personal Data
DCU Business School will only retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose it is being processed for. All personal data collected by the DCU Business School is retained in accordance with the DCU Business School Policy.
When DCU Business School no longer needs your personal data, they securely delete or destroy your personal data.
This is the Cookie Policy for DCU Business School, accessible from https://business.dcu.ie/
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Login related cookiesWe use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
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- Surveys related cookiesFrom time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
- Forms related cookiesWhen you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences cookiesIn order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
- Live chat Cookies
We use a live chat feature that uses cookies to carry your chat through teh page and also to trigger messages to you.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Links to more Information:
- More information on Google’s Privacy Policy
- How Google Analytics uses Cookies
- To opt out of tracking by Google Analytics
Links to other websites
This privacy statement does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
What are your Rights
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to
- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.
- Right of portability – where certain conditions apply, you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
- Right to review: in the event that the HSE’s refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why.
- Withdraw your consent – where you have consented to receiving emails or newsletters you may withdraw your consent at any time
- – allows a user to refuse cookies and hides message bar (needs 2 cookies for that, others are removed)
- – allows a user to opt out from essential theme and all other cookies (except 2 from av_privacy_allow_cookies)
- – allows a user to disable Google tracking in his or her browser
- – allows a user to disable the use of Google webfonts in his or her browser
- – allows a user to disable the use of Google Maps in his or her browser
- – allows a user to disable custom cookies in his or her browser
Your contact information
DCU Business School Office,
Room Q160, DCU Business School,
Dublin City University,
Dublin 9, Ireland.
Phone +353 1 700 5265
Fax +353 1 700 5446
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| AWSALB | pubble.io | Cookie purpose description: Registers which server-cluster is serving th e visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | HTTP | 1 day |
| AWSALBCORS | pubble.io | Cookie purpose description: Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | HTTP | 6 days |
| JSESSIONID | pubble.io | Cookie purpose description: Preserves users states across page requests. | HTTP | |
| lang | ads.linkedin.com | Cookie purpose description: Remembers the user’s selected lan guage version of a website | ||
| _ga | dcu.ie | Cookie purpose description: Registers a u n iqu e ID th at is u sed to gen erate statistical data on h ow th e visitor u ses th e w ebsite. | HTTP | 2 years |
| _gat | dcu.ie | Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | HTTP | 1 day |
| _gid | dcu.ie | HTTP | 1 day | |
| collect | google-analytics.com | Cookie purpose description: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Pixel | Session |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | HTTP | 2 years |
| bscookie | linkedin.com | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn , for tracking the use of embedded services. | HTTP | 2 years |
| d/px | adsymptotic.com | Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This in formation is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. | Pixel | Session |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | HTTP | 1 year |
| lang | linkedin.com | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded “Follow us” panel. | HTTP | Session |
| li_sugr | linkedin.com | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. | HTTP | 3 months |
| lidc | linkedin.com | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn , for tracking the use of embedded services. | HTTP | 1 day |
| lissc | linkedin.com | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn , for tracking the use of embedded services. | HTTP | 1 year |
| mp_#_mixpanel | business.dcu.ie | real-time insight into how people interact with our product chat | HTTP | 1 year |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. | Pixel | Session |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | HTTP | 1 day |
| UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. | HTTP | 29 days |
| pubble_gen_uid | pubble.io | chat box call back | HTTP | 1 year |
| pubble_session_time | pubble.io | chat bot session | HTTP | Session |
| pubble_site_time | pubble.io | chat bot session timer | HTTP | session |
| pubble_trigger | business.dcu.ie | chat bot session trigger | HTTP | session |
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