I'm sure you're sick of hearing about these annoying cookies! But here we go....
First… am sure you’re wondering what is a cookie and why do i need to read about them on a pet care website? Good question. Let us explain it to you a little bit. Olliespetcare.ie or our sub sites (“Sites” or “Site”) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users & visitor of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.
When you visit our site for the first time you will see a ‘Cookie Acceptance’ popup. At this point no cookies have been stored on your computer except for essential cookies described below. This popup will continue to show until you accept it or deny it. Once accepted all other cookies will be allowed to be stored on your computer as needed. You can change your cookie acceptance at any time by clicking the cookie icon in the bottom left of your screen and you can remove cookies by reading the ‘How do I block cookies?’ section below.
Do note that by denying non-essential cookies you will not be able to use certain features of our website.
Cookies…
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we safely store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use three groups of cookies that fall into two categories, essential & non-essential:
Strictly Necessary cookies: these are ‘essential’ cookies that are required for the operation of our site and for it to work at all. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or use a shopping basket.
Performance / Analytical cookies: these are ‘non-essential’ cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: these are ‘non-essential’ cookies that are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember any preferences (for example, your choice of language or to show/hide popup announcements).
If you wish to view a table with all cookies that we use here on Olliespetcare.ie please visit this page on a desktop browser.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below:
These are necessary to make our website work.
| COOKIE | ID | IT’S PURPOSE | WHY WE USE THIS? |
| Ollie’s Petcare Session Cookie | PHPSESSION | This 1st party Ollie’s Petcare session cookie is used to maintain information about each visit to the website and enable core site functionality. This cookie does not contain any personal information, and only lasts for the duration of user’s visit, being deleted as soon as a user closes a web browser. | This is an essential cookie and we have no choice in its use. It makes our website work! Expires: end of session |
These track and collect information about visitors to our website.
| COOKIE | ID | IT’S PURPOSE | WHY WE USE THIS? |
| WPTHMS Page tracker Plugin | pvc_visits[0] | This 1st party cookie is a simple post view counter cookie that is used on article pages to distinguish user visits when collecting information about page visits | We use this cookie to give a ‘glance’ at how popular a blog article is on the article page. This cookie does not collect all visits. Expires: 2 minutes |
| Spyropress WordPress Theme | spyropress_post_view_done | This 1st party cookie is a simple post view counter cookie that is used on blog article pages only to distinguish user visits when collecting count of page visits. | We use this cookie to let us see how popular a blog article is on the article page. This cookie does not collect all visits. Expires: 24 hours |
| Ollie & Penny Session Cookie | PHPSESSID | This 3rd party Ollie & Penny session cookie is used to maintain information about each visit to adverts served. This cookie does not contain any personal information, and only lasts for the duration of user’s visit, being deleted as soon as a user closes a web browser | This is an essential cookie and we have no choice in its use. It makes our Ollie & Penny’s website work! Expires: end of session |
| WP Advertising Pro Plugin | Wpprogeotargeting | This 3rd party Ollie & Penny cookie is used to maintain information about each visitor location to serve relevant adverts based on location. This cookie expires after 1 hour. | This cookie is used by Ollie & Penny’s website to track which location visitors are browsing from and to serve them the appropriate advert. Expires: 1 hour |
These make your experience of our website better by customising our site saving your preferences.
| COOKIE | ID | IT’S PURPOSE | WHY WE USE THIS? |
| Easy Share Buttons – Heart This Button | essb_love | This 1st party cookie is a simple post like counter cookie that is used on all pages to distinguish when user has liked a page and prevent them from liking the page again for 24 hours. | These cookies allow us to have social share options on pages & post. This allows visitors to like or heart posts & pages. Expires: 1 day |
| Cookie Notice Plugin | cookie_notice_accepted | This 1st party cookie is a simple cookie that is used to remember a visitors cookie acceptance or refusal. It expires in 1 year or if a visitor changes their cookie acceptance preference. | We use this cookie to remember your perference with with accepting/declining cookies on our website. Expires: 1 year |
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.
How do I block cookies?
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. 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 or it may not look or act the way we have intended.
For more information on cookies for the most common browsers, please refer to the pages below:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Microsoft Edge: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Safari (OSX): https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Safari (iOS): https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Android: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
(Please refer to your device’s documentation for manufacturers’ own browsers)
How do I block cookies?
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. 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 or it may not look or act the way we have intended.
For more information on cookies for the most common browsers, please refer to the pages below:
Google Chrome: here
Microsoft Internet Explorer: here
Microsoft Edge: here
Safari (OSX): here
Safari (iOS): here
Mozilla Firefox: here
Android: here
(Please refer to your device’s documentation for manufacturers’ own browsers)
Cookies will expire after the times specified in the table above.
For more information about cookies, including information on how to block cookies on your browser (including third party cookies) please visit www.aboutcookies.org (this is an external link and we are not responsible for its content).
We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. You are therefore advised to check the policy on our website from time to time.
If you would like to know more about how we use cookies, please contact us on hello [at] olliespetcare [dot] ie
