Updated 15 January 2025
IOB respects the privacy of all visitors to our websites. This Cookies and Security Notice outlines our policy concerning the use of cookies on IOB websites and other similar tracking technologies.
From time to time we will update this Cookies and Security Notice to reflect any changes in technology or legislation which affect the way in which cookies are used by us and how you as a user, can manage them.
Browsers
Our website supports standard browsers. To maximise your experience of the site, it is always recommended that you install the latest versions of browsers, which are free and available from their manufacturers.
If you encounter any difficulty in accessing the site, or have feedback, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
Data Collection
We collect personal information from you, for example when you become a member; register to an educational programme; apply for information on our products and services; apply for a designation/CPD scheme or express an interest in one of our programmes or a programme offered in association with one of our educational partners. We also collect information through our websites and social media. Our websites use ‘cookie’ technology.
For more information on how IOB may process your personal data, please refer to our Data Protection Notice and Policy
Payments
Certain online purchase options on iob.ie require you to give financial information (such as credit card numbers). Financial information that is collected is used solely to bill for services and is not stored on our systems.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. IOB is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect a user’s personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online services. Once we receive a user’s transmission, we use our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer. We use cookies to make our site faster and easier to use. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
How IOB Uses Cookies
IOB uses cookies to improve your experience on our site. We use cookies for the following purposes:
Certain cookies are essential to the proper functioning of IOB systems and therefore don’t require your explicit consent.
We use analytics cookies (where you have given your consent) to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors. IOB uses a global provider for this analysis which means a limited amount of personal data will be transferred internationally, where privacy rights are not necessarily at the same level as in the EEA.
Web visitors that accept all cookies or targeting cookies and visit some IOB sub sites that are involved in marketing, by doing so, permit the placement of third-party cookies. IOB may engage with trusted third-party marketing companies to assist with the running of campaigns for IOB and its programmes and courses. Some of these third-party cookies will involve international data transfers beyond the EEA. These third-party cookies are listed in our cookie list.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
Types of Cookies We Use
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around the IOB website and providing access to features and systems we offer. They also secure areas of the IOB website. This category of cookies cannot be disabled as they are essential to the functioning of the system.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices and customisation you made. For instance, these cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide features you have selected like watching a video or commenting on a blog.
Statistics Cookies
We use cookies for analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies give us insight into how our website is being used and will involve international data transfers outside the EEA.
Marketing Cookies
Customised Information & Advertising Cookies:
IOB does not place ads anywhere on our sites. However, some pages under the IOB.ie domain use cookies that are based on your interests expressed or that measure the results of our digital campaigns.
Social Plug-In Cookies:
When you interact with social media content, you trigger the placement of relevant cookies from these platforms. These cookies are set by third parties, including Facebook, and allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our websites on social media. Such cookies will trigger international data transfers of your data outside the EEA.
Unclassified Cookies
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying.
You can refer to the full details of the cookies we use below.
Pixel tags/web beacons
We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud to send both transactional and direct-marketing related emails. We include web beacons in these e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.
Analytics
IOB uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google, LLC to collect information about how you use IOB websites, when you give your consent to Marketing cookies. It uses cookies to help us analyse how users use our Site and collects the following information for this purpose: browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address), time of server request, your behaviour and interactions (including page views, searches, download of content, clicks on links, number of visits, duration of visit, etc.). This information is used by us to improve our website.
As a rule, any information generated by the cookie about your use of our site will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA, a country which may not provide for the same level of data protection as considered adequate in the European Union (“EU”). We will only disclose your personal data to Google in the USA if you have provided your consent. In order to ensure your personal data is adequately protected, Google further undertakes to comply with the EU standard contractual clauses (processors) (see https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/mccs/).
In addition, when collecting data, Google Analytics does not log or store individual IP addresses. IP addresses are used at collection time to determine location information (country, city, latitude and longitude of city) and then discarded before data is logged in any data centre or server.
Google will use the information collected as our commissioned data processor to help us evaluate the use of our Site, to compile reports on Site activity, and to provide other statistical and analytical services relating to usage of our Site. To learn more about how Google uses information collected via our Sites, and for an overview of the privacy aspects of Google Analytics, see here.
The use of Google Analytics and the related processing of your personal data by IOB is based on your consent, which you can provide via our cookie banner or our cookie preference settings page. You can also withdraw your consent and prevent the collection of data via Google Analytics generated by the cookie about your use of our website (see below on how to do this).
How We Scan and Categorise Cookies
We use CookiePro by OneTrust to scan our site for cookies and to give you the ability to manage your cookie preferences. By disallowing targeting cookies, you also deselect social media plug-ins. This will potentially result in YouTube and other social media content not being displayed and potentially result in blank space when you view the webpage.
Additionally, if you have already set your web browser settings to the highest level of privacy on your device directly, this will override any choices you make in our privacy preference centre.
We scan registered sub-domains monthly up to the maximum limit of 10,000 pages as imposed by CookiePro. Scripts/cookies outside of the scan may not be blocked by CookiePro. Scripts/cookies added to a website between scans may not be blocked until categorised following the subsequent scan.
Withdrawing/Amending Cookie Consent
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website by clicking the cookie consent popup on the bottom left corner of our website.
Please state your consent ID and date when you contact us regarding your consent.