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This cookie policy relates to www.nli.ie and any of its subdomains.

The National Library of Ireland is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. You can opt out of all cookies on our website except those classed as strictly necessary.

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They allow companies to customise functions of a website for users such as remembering a registered login and also to track movements within a website to see which pages are popular and allow a company to create a better website for its users.

Cookies are classified into the following categories:

 

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

 

Preference cookies

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

 

Statistics cookies

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

 

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

This website uses cookies to personalise content, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share anonymous information with our analytics partners about how our site is used. 

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. We need your permission for all other types of cookies.

Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. You can find more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.

We use the following cookies:

 

Cookie Name

Purpose

Provider

Persistence

Data Transfer

Category

VUFIND_SESSION

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

PHP_SESSID

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

_parish_registers
_session

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

cc_cookie

Stores the visitor's cookie preference

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

ui

Stores the visitor's UI preference

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

complianceCookie

Stores the visitor's cookie preference

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

_nli-starter_session

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

_psr_rails_session

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

NLI

Session Cookie

Ireland

Necessary

_pk_id.

used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID

Matomo

13 months

EU-based

Analytics

_pk_ses.

short lived cookies used to temporarily store data for the visit

Matomo

30 minutes

EU-based

Analytics

_pk_ref.

stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site

Matomo

6 months

EU-based

Analytics

CONSENT

 

Youtube

1 yr 9 months

 

Necessary

DEVICE_INFO

 

Youtube

6 Months

 

Necessary

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

 

Youtube

3 Months

 

Necessary

YSC

 

Youtube

Session

 

Necessary

sc_anonymous_id

 

SoundCloud

10 years

 

Necessary

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

You can also choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not by changing your browser settings. 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. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to some common browsers and instructions.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Data Privacy Statement.