Cookie Policy

Who Is Responsible for Website Cookies?

The operator responsible for this Cookie Policy is:

Martin Scherbaum / Saniflo.Irish
Ballinlig
Broadford
Co. Kildare
Ireland

Telephone: +353 86 253 1769
Email: info@saniflo.irish

Further information about our handling of personal data is available in our Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?

Website Cookies are small text files placed on a browser or device. They can remember a preference, maintain security, support a requested service or help a website understand how a feature performs.

Similar technologies can include local storage, session storage, scripts, pixels, tags and identifiers used by embedded services.

Some cookies last only until you close the browser. Others remain for a defined period or until they are deleted.

A cookie may be set directly by this website or by a third-party service used on a page.

Irish Cookie Consent Requirements

Irish electronic-communications rules normally require prior Cookie Consent before information is stored on, or accessed from, a visitor’s device.

A limited exemption may apply where a technology is strictly necessary to transmit a communication or provide a service specifically requested by the visitor. This exemption is interpreted narrowly.

Where consent is required, it must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. Therefore, optional categories are not accepted merely because a visitor continues browsing, scrolls the page or ignores the banner.

Official guidance is available from the Irish Data Protection Commission.

Functional Website Cookies

Functional or strictly necessary technologies support essential website operation, security and services requested by the visitor. They may be used to:

• Store the consent preference selected
• Protect forms against automated submissions
• Maintain website and network security
• Deliver pages and requested website functions
• Remember essential interface settings

Strictly necessary technologies may operate without optional Cookie Consent. However, they must still be explained clearly and used only for their necessary purpose.

Preference Cookies

Preference technologies remember choices that are not essential to basic website operation. For example, they may remember a display, language or embedded-content preference.

Where preference cookies are not strictly necessary for a service requested by the visitor, they are controlled through the consent interface.

You can Manage Cookie Preferences at any time through the control provided later in this Cookie Policy.

Statistics and Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to help us understand website visits, page use, navigation and technical performance.

Google Analytics is treated as a non-essential analytics service. Analytics cookie storage is not enabled unless you select a consent level that includes Site Optimisation.

When analytics consent is not granted or is withdrawn, Google Consent Mode may allow limited consent-status or cookieless measurement signals to be sent without enabling normal analytics cookie storage. These signals are used subject to the applicable consent state and do not represent consent to normal cookie-based analytics.

You can change your choice at any time through the cookie-preference control available on the website.

Google Search Console is separate from Google Analytics. It provides aggregated search-performance information and does not itself require us to place Google Analytics cookies in your browser.

Embedded and Third-Party Content

Some pages may contain third-party reviews, YouTube videos, maps or other embedded content. A third-party service may receive technical information when its content loads.

Where an embed uses optional Cookies and Tracking Technologies, it should remain blocked until the relevant category is accepted. A placeholder may appear until consent is provided.

After you deliberately follow a link to another website, the destination provider controls its own cookies and privacy practices.

Current Website Cookies and Services

We use Cookie Compliance for WordPress, provided by Hu-manity.co, to manage cookie and tracking-technology preferences on this website.

Depending on the consent-management configuration in use, Cookie Compliance may provide the consent banner, consent categories, pre-consent script blocking, consent records and integrations with supported consent frameworks and services.

We periodically review the cookies and similar technologies used by the website, including their provider, purpose or function, category and duration or lifespan. We also review unidentified or newly introduced technologies so that the information provided to visitors remains accurate.

The cookies and technologies used may change when the website, plugins, integrations or third-party services change. We therefore review our consent configuration when material technical changes are made.

Manage Cookie Preferences

Our Cookie Compliance interface provides three main privacy levels: Private, Balanced and Personalized.

Private is the highest-privacy level. It permits Basic Operations required for necessary website operation and security while optional Content Personalisation, Site Optimisation and Ad Personalisation purposes remain disabled.

Balanced permits Content Personalisation and Site Optimisation in addition to Basic Operations. This can include services such as embedded YouTube content and Google Analytics.

Personalized is the highest personalisation level and may additionally permit Ad Personalisation and technologies used to make advertising and media more relevant.

You can also use the Customize controls to review the available purposes and manage your preferences.

You may change or withdraw your Cookie Consent at any time using the cookie-preference control made available on the website. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place lawfully before the preference was changed.

Where consent is required, optional technologies remain disabled unless the relevant consent has been provided

Browser Cookie Controls

Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block Website Cookies. Browser settings differ, so consult the help information for your browser or device.

Blocking all cookies may affect necessary functions, consent records, form security or embedded content. Deleting cookies can also remove the stored preference and cause the banner to appear again.

Browser controls do not replace our obligation to prevent optional technologies from loading before consent where consent is required.

Consent Records and Retention

Our Cookie Compliance system stores information needed to remember and apply your cookie preferences and maintain a consent record. This may include your selected privacy level and purpose categories, a consent identifier, the date of consent and related consent-configuration information.

For the current GDPR configuration, the consent interface shows a consent duration of one month, after which the visitor may be asked to confirm a preference again.

Consent records are retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to demonstrate and respect the selected preference or meet an applicable legal requirement.

Individual cookies and similar storage technologies have their own durations or lifespans. We periodically review these technologies so that their purposes, classifications and durations remain accurate.

International Processing

Some third-party technology, security, email, notification or support providers may process personal data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we take steps to ensure that the transfer is permitted under applicable data-protection law. Depending on the destination and provider, this may include relying on an applicable European Commission adequacy decision, approved Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism or safeguard.

Where appropriate, we also consider the nature of the information, the purpose of the processing and the security and data-protection measures applicable to the transfer.

More information is available in our [Privacy Policy].

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when the website, consent configuration, plugins, services or legal requirements change.

The latest version will remain available on this page. The effective date and last-updated date will be revised when a material change is published.

A new Cookie Consent choice may be requested when the purposes, providers or optional categories change significantly.