What is a cookie?
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies may then be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing
habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can “remember” you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have
furnished such information to the website.
First party cookies
First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting.
Third party cookies
Third party cookies are set by a different organisation to the owner of the website you are visiting. For example, the website might use a third party analytics company who will set a cookie to perform this service. The website you are visiting may also contain content embedded from services such as YouTube or Microsoft, and these services may set their own cookies.
A website may use a third party advertising network to deliver targeted advertising on their website, these may also have the capability to track your browsing across different sites.
Session cookies
Session cookies are stored temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies
This type of cookie is saved on your computer for a fixed period and is not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies can be used to manage return visits. For example, this type of cookie could be used to know how many repeat visits a site receives compared with new visits.
Flash cookies
Many websites use Adobe Flash Player to deliver video content to their users. Adobe utilise their own cookies, which are not manageable through your browser settings but are used by the Flash Player for similar purposes, such as storing your preferences or tracking users.
Flash cookies work in a different way to web browser cookies rather than having individual cookies for particular jobs, a website is restricted to storing all data in one cookie. You can control how much data can be stored in that cookie but you cannot choose the type of information stored. Find out how to manage Flash cookies.
How does TBT Security use cookies?
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or an embedded Google map. For example, when you visit a page with content embedded from, YouTube or Google, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser.
TBT Security uses cookies to remember your cookie preferences, provide certain functions in our online catalogue, show embedded video content and protect our online contact form, which in turn helps to provide visitors with a better experience.
Our cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer, nor does TBT Security gather personal information via any first party cookies. Third party cookies however may gather such information.
Visitors can use www.tbtsecurity.ie with the following loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser or ‘Use necessary cookies only’ is selected from the cookies banner on first contact with this website:
Users will not be presented with the contact form
Embedded YouTube content will not be displayed
Our product specification sheets and manuals, etc., are served from docs.tbtsecurity.ie. No cookies are set when viewing or downloading documents from this service.
More information on our service providers privacy policies can be found below:
Ecwid
We use Ecwid Inc. to provide our online product catalogue. You can read their privacy policy
here.
Cookiebot
Our cookies banner is provided by Cybot A/S. You can read their privacy policy
here.
The online contact form on this website is protected by reCAPTCHA, which is provided by Google LLC to reduce unwanted spam. You can read Google’s privacy policy
here and find more information on reCAPTCHA
here.
YouTube
We embed YouTube videos to provide useful information to our users and this service is provided by Google LLC. You can read their privacy policy here.
What cookies we use and your consent
How to disable cookies
Below are links to help you to disable cookies for some of the more popular web browsers.
Support articles on Microsoft’s Edge browser:
Temporarily allows cookies and site data in Microsoft Edge
View and delete browser history in Microsoft Edge
Additional support articles on Microsoft Edge can be found here