PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIES

We handle your personal data with care

About this Privacy Policy

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us at dataprotection info@fusebox.ie

What personal data do we collect

We collect your personal data when you access our website, when you interact with our social media channels, when you use one of the Contact Forms on our website, when you make a telephone/mobile call to our customer service or reception, when you send an email to any of our employees, when you contact us or we contact you to take part in surveys, competitions or promotions and when you visit one of our customer centres.

Retention of your personal data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Any unnecessary personal data will be deleted from our databases.

How do we protect your personal data

We take the security of your personal data very seriously. Your personal data is protected by encryption techniques and other safeguard technologies such as firewalls and password protection. Also, strict physical controls in our buildings restrict access to your personal data. We have also implemented various controls, strategies and procedures to keep your personal data secure.

How do we use your personal data

We use your data to make our products and services information available to you (e.g. to communicate with you regarding our products and services), for administrative and internal business purposes (e.g. using the information you shared with us for improving our website), for security and legal reasons (e.g. detection of fraud) and our marketing activities (e.g. sending you an email newsletter or invitation for an event).

Who do we share your personal data with or transfer it to

We will never sell any of your personal data to a third party.

We may however share your personal data with a third party marketing company (only with your consent). For example we currently use Campaign Monitor to send you email newsletters.

When sharing personal data with a third party, FuseBox requires that such third party agrees to protect and handle your personal data in accordance with all legal, regulatory and contractual obligations.

Google Analytics

Our websites use Google Analytics for analysing data. The data includes:

  • Page Information

    URL – the URL of the page the user is viewing Title – the title of the page the user is viewing

  • Browser Information Browser name – the browser the user is using Viewport or Viewing pane – the size of the browser window Screen resolution – the resolution of the user’s screen Java enabled – whether or not the user has Java enabled Flash version – what version of Flash the user is using

  • User Information Location – this is derived from the IP address where the hit originated. The IP address itself is not available in GA as it is
    personally identifiable information (PII) which violates the terms of Google Analytics. Language – derived from the language settings of the browser

Cookies

Our websites use cookies for session management only and are removed as soon as the user’s session ends.

What are your rights under GDPR

  1. The right to be informed means all organisations must be completely transparent in how they are using your personal data which also includes us.
  2. You have the right to know exactly what information is held about you and how it is processed.
  3. The right of rectification entitles you to have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  4. The right to erasure, also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ is your right to having your personal data deleted or removed without the need for a specific reason as to why you wish to discontinue.
  5. The right to restrict processing is your right to block or suppress processing of your personal data.
  6. The right to data portability allows you to retain and reuse your personal data for your own purpose.
  7. The right to object means you are entitled to object to your personal data being used. This includes, if a company uses personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, scientific and historical research, or for the performance of a task in the public interest.
  8. Rights of automated decision making and profiling - the GDPR has put in place safeguards to protect you against the risk that a potentially damaging decision is made without human intervention. For example, you can choose not to be the subject of a decision where the consequence has a legal bearing on you or is based on automated processing

If you wish to know more about your rights considering protection of your personal data, you can learn more about the subject here: www.dataprotection.ie.

Strictly necessary

NameDomainExpirationDescription
popup_statusfusebox.ie3 months
exp_trackerfusebox.ieSession

This cookie name is associated with the website content management system Expression Engine. Most likely to do with tracking or recoding visitor activity.

exp_publisher_site_languagefusebox.ie1 month
exp_last_visitfusebox.ie1 year

This cookie name is associated with the website content management system Expression Engine. Most likely to do with tracking or recoding visitor activity.

exp_csrf_tokenfusebox.ie2 hours

This cookie is used by Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic.

_hjFirstSeenfusebox.ie30 minutes

The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample fusebox.ie2 minutes

This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress fusebox.ie30 minutes

The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.

AnalyticsSyncHistory .linkedin.com 1 month

Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries

li_gc .linkedin.com 1 year 11 months

Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes

exp_publisher_tracker fusebox.ieSession
exp_last_activity fusebox.ie1 year

This cookie name is associated with the website content management system Expression Engine. Most likely to do with tracking or recoding visitor activity.

Performance

NameDomainExpirationDescription
_ga fusebox.ie2 years

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

_gid fusebox.ie1 day

This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics. It is used by gtag.js and analytics.js scripts and according to Google Analytics this cookie is used to distinguish users.

_gat_UA-2127317-1 fusebox.ie1 minute

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.

_hjid fusebox.ie1 year

Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

_gat fusebox.ie1 minute

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

Targeting

NameDomainExpirationDescription
_fbp fusebox.ie3 months

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

UserMatchHistory .linkedin.com 1 month

This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences.

bcookie .linkedin.com 2 years

This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.

lidc .linkedin.com 1 day

This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.

bscookie .www.linkedin.com 2 years

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

YSC .youtube.com Session

This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com 6 months

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.

IDE .doubleclick.net 1 year

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

Functionality

NameDomainExpirationDescription
lang.linkedin.com Session

There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language.

Changing your mind

If for any reason you decide you want your personal data to be deleted from our database or delivered to you, you can request this by emailing us at info@fusebox.ie.