The National Treatment Purchase Fund (the ‘NTPF’) has produced this information notice (‘Notice’) to provide you with information on the cookies that may be placed on its website. www.ntpf.ie.
This Notice is dated 5 October 2020 and will be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure it properly reflects the cookie activity on the website.
If you have any queries in relation to this Notice, please contact: dataprotection@ntpf.ie
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file, often encrypted, that is placed in your web browser on your PC, telephone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. During the course of your visit to that website, and on subsequent visits, it sends information from your browser about your visit(s).
A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:
As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:
The NTPF will not be able to identify you individually from these cookies.
What cookies do NTPF use and why?
1. Strictly necessary cookies:
These are cookies that are necessary for the website to function. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as navigating through the website or setting your cookie preferences. We do not ask for your consent to set these cookies. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
Cookie Name: ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX
Party: First
Duration: Session
Description: Generally associated with use as a general purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft ASP based technologies. The structure of the cookie name is a common root - ASPSESSIONID, followed by a series of unique letters. It is usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.
Cookie Name: Optanon Consent
Party : First
Duration: Persistent – 6 months
Description: This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given.
Cookie Name: OptanonAlertBoxClosed
Party: First
Duration: Persistent - 1 year
Description: This cookie is set by websites using cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user.
2. Analytical cookies:
The NTPF uses analytical cookies, to understand your use of the website eg how many visitors there are to the website, how long you are on the website, what pages you viewed, how you came to the website. These cookies help us measure and improve the performance of our website. We ask for your permission to set these cookies.
Cookie Name: _ga
Party: First
Duration: Persistent – 2 years
Description: Used to distinguish visitors to a website.
Cookie Name: _gat
Party: First
Duration: Persistent – 1 day
Description: Used to throttle the request rate information
Cookie Name: _gid
Party: First
Duration: Persistent – 1 day
Description: Used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site
2. Analytical cookies:
The NTPF has embedded a YouTube video on its website, which explains how patient validation works. When you click on the video, YouTube sets certain cookies which track viewing behaviour. YouTube is a Google owned platform.
Cookie Name: YSC
Party: Third - youtube.com
Duration: Session
Description:This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
Cookie Name: GPS
Party: Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Persistent – 1 day
Description: This cookie registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
Cookie Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Party : Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Persistent – 180 day
Description: Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
Cookie Name: yt-remote-connected-devices
Party: Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Persistent – 180 day
Description: This cookie stores user’s video player preferences when using the embedded YouTube video.
Cookie Name: yt-remote-device-id
Party: Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Persistent – 180 day
Description: : This cookie stores user’s video player preferences when using the embedded YouTube video.
Cookie Name: yt-remote-fast-check-period
Party : Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Session
Description: This cookie stores user’s video player preferences when using the embedded YouTube video.
Cookie Name: yt-remote-session -app
Party: Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Session
Description: This cookie stores user’s video player preferences when using the embedded YouTube video.
Cookie Name: yt-remote-session-name
Party: Third -- youtube.com
Duration: Session
Description: : This cookie stores user’s video player preferences when using the embedded YouTube video.
Cookie Name: IDE
Party: Third - doubleclick.net (Google)
Duration: Persistent – 1 year
Description: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking an advertiser's ad with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
Cookie Name: test_cookie
Party: Third - doubleclick.net (Google)
Duration: Persistent – 1 day
Description: : Used by Google DoubleClick to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
How to Control and Delete Cookies
For analytical and tracking cookies, we ask your consent to set them when you first visit the website. Your consent lasts 6 months after which we will ask again. However, you can change your preferences at any time by following the Manage preferences button at the bottom of any page on the website.
Web browsers accept cookies by default but you can usually change the web browser’s settings to refuse new cookies, disable existing ones or simply let you know when new ones are sent to your device. This is generally in the privacy setting of the main browsers.
Please be aware that if you refuse or disable cookies then some of the website’s functionality may be adversely affected for you. In addition, disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser and would need to be done by you within your browser if you so wish.