About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are, how they may be used on the Paul's Auto Vehicle Transport website and the choices available to you.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy , which explains more generally how personal information is collected, used and protected.
The use of cookies and similar technologies in Ireland is governed principally by the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011, commonly referred to as the ePrivacy Regulations.
Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data, the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 may also apply.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of information that may be stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can allow a website to recognise a browser or device, remember information between pages, maintain website functionality or collect information about how the website is used.
Some cookies exist only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. These are often called session cookies.
Other cookies may remain on your device for a defined period after your visit. These are commonly referred to as persistent cookies.
Similar technologies
The legal rules relating to cookies can also apply to other technologies that store information on, or access information from, a user's device.
These technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, device identifiers and certain forms of browser or device fingerprinting.
References to cookies in this policy should therefore be understood to include similar technologies where appropriate.
Strictly necessary cookies
Some cookies may be strictly necessary for the website or a service specifically requested by you to operate correctly.
These may include technologies required for website security, essential technical functionality, network management or remembering information required to deliver a service you have expressly requested.
Where a cookie falls within a valid exemption under the Irish ePrivacy Regulations, prior consent may not be required.
The exemption is interpreted narrowly. A cookie is not regarded as strictly necessary merely because it is useful or convenient to the website operator.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies may be used to remember choices or preferences and provide enhanced functionality.
Depending on their purpose, these cookies may require your consent before they are placed on or accessed from your device.
Where consent is required, functional cookies should not be activated until you have chosen to allow them.
Analytics cookies
Analytics technologies can be used to understand how people use a website, such as which pages are visited, how visitors move through the website and how frequently particular content is viewed.
Under Irish guidance, analytics cookies are not treated as strictly necessary simply because the information is useful for improving a website.
Where analytics cookies or equivalent tracking technologies are used, they will therefore require your consent before being activated.
Advertising and marketing cookies
Advertising or marketing technologies may be used to measure advertising performance, track conversions, build audience profiles or personalise advertising.
These technologies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the website and require consent before they are used.
Paul's Auto Vehicle Transport will not intentionally activate non-essential advertising or tracking technologies before the required consent has been obtained.
First-party and third-party cookies
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting and are generally controlled by the website operator.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are set or accessed by another organisation whose technology or service is used on the website.
Third-party services may process information for their own purposes or on behalf of Paul's Auto Vehicle Transport, depending on the service involved.
This website includes a link that enables you to open WhatsApp and contact Paul's Auto Vehicle Transport.
Our WhatsApp button is intended to operate as a link to the WhatsApp service rather than embedding a WhatsApp conversation directly within the website.
When you choose to follow that link, you leave this website and your interaction with WhatsApp becomes subject to WhatsApp's own privacy and technology practices.
Website enquiry form
The website includes an enquiry form that uses FormSubmit to transmit the information you enter to Paul's Auto Vehicle Transport by email.
The use of the form does not in itself mean that optional cookies or tracking technologies have been accepted.
Information about how personal information submitted through the form is handled is available in our Privacy Policy .
Cookie consent
Where the website uses cookies or similar technologies that require consent, those technologies should not be activated until valid consent has been obtained.
Consent must represent a genuine choice and should be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.
Simply continuing to browse the website should not be treated as consent to non-essential cookies.
You should also be able to reject non-essential cookies without being required to accept them as a condition of accessing ordinary website content.
Changing your cookie preferences
Where a cookie consent management tool is provided on the website, you can use that tool to choose which categories of optional cookies you allow.
You should be able to change or withdraw your consent at any time, and withdrawing consent should be as easy as giving it.
Changing your preferences does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
Browser controls
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their settings.
The method for doing this varies between browsers and devices, so you should refer to the help or privacy settings provided by your browser.
Blocking all cookies may affect the operation of some websites and may prevent certain functionality from working as intended.
Cookies currently used
The cookies and similar technologies actually used on this website may change as the website develops or as third-party services are introduced, removed or updated.
Where non-essential cookies are introduced, this policy and any cookie consent mechanism should be updated to identify the relevant purposes and provide appropriate control before those technologies are activated.
If the website uses only technologies that qualify as strictly necessary, those technologies may be used without prior consent where the relevant legal exemption applies.
How long cookies remain
The period for which a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and configuration.
Session cookies normally expire when the relevant browser session ends.
Persistent cookies may remain for a specified period or until they are deleted through your browser or consent preferences.
Cookies should not be retained for longer than is necessary for their stated purpose.
Cookies and personal data
The rules relating to storing or accessing information on a device apply even where the information involved does not identify an individual.
Where cookie information also constitutes personal data, its subsequent processing must comply with applicable data protection law, including the GDPR.
More information about your data protection rights is available in our Privacy Policy .
Changes to this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated where the website, cookies, third-party technologies or applicable legal requirements change.
The current version will be published on this page and the date shown at the top will be updated where appropriate.
Contact
If you have questions about cookies, tracking technologies or this Cookie Policy, contact:
Stephen Paul
trading as Paul's Auto Vehicle Transport
Email:
stephen@paulsautotransport.ie