Cookie Policy
Shop.irelandfootball.ie (“our Site”)is a website operated by J.Carter Sporting Club Ltd, [trading as Castore Sportswear]. J. Carter Sporting Club Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 09670915 and VAT number GB 220 5568 30 (referred to as "Castore", "we", "us" or "our"). Our registered office at Tempest Building, 12 Tithebarn St, Liverpool, L2 2DT. Our VAT number is GB 220 5568 30.
To contact us, please get in touch here through our Portal.
ABOUT THIS COOKIE POLICY
We take your privacy very seriously. We fully appreciate and respect the importance of data privacy and security on the internet.
Our Site uses cookies and similar technologies for various purposes, including to distinguish you from other users and allows us to improve our Site.
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 and allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) upon entering our Site, even if you are not logged into our Site. When you visit our Site, you can surf anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity by changing your browser settings.
However, in order to provide better service, we may use cookies to track your visit. 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.
THE TWO MAIN TYPES OF COOKIES
Session cookies:
- Are temporary cookies.
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our Site.
- Allow you to carry information across pages of our Site and avoid having to re-enter information.
- Allow you to access stored information within the registration process.
- Allow you to apply discounts depending on where and how you entered our Site.
- Cannot be read by a website other than the one that sent the cookie.
Persistent cookies:
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer – the length of time will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.
- Allow you to maintain a shopping basket – i.e. if you leave our Site and come back later, items saved in your basket will still be there.
- Help us to recognise you as a unique visitor (by using an ID number) when you return to our Site.
- Allow us to tailor content to match your preferences. This also prevents you from having to Log In on every visit.
- Cannot be read by a website other than the one that sent the cookie.
WHY WE USE THE FOLLOWING COOKIES
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site, use an electronic basket or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you (including by saving information which you may have populated into a form, without submitting), greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES WE USE
We work with some third-party suppliers to enable features on our Site or to improve our online advertising. These suppliers may set cookies on our Site, as shown in the below table.
Cookie Name |
Cookie Reference |
Purpose |
Klaviyo |
They provide the system that sends out our marketing emails. They set a cookie that helps us monitor our emails and how many people open and click on them. You will only receive our emails if you have signed up to our database. You can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any email, or by getting in touch here through our Portal. |
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Google Display Network |
Google uses cookies to provide you with personalised adverts when you visit other selected websites. They compile anonymous statistics on what you have looked at and, in some cases, bought. |
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Microsoft Advertising and Google Adwords |
We advertise on the search engines run by these companies. Their cookies enable us to see if anyone buys any of our products as a result. None of the information contained in these cookies identifies you personally. |
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Facebook Tag Manager |
Using the Facebook tag we are able to target relevant audiences of people who have visited our Site and remarket to people who show an interest in products. None of the information contained in these cookies identifies you personally. |
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Facebook / Twitter / Instagram sharing |
If you ‘share’ Castore content on social networks through the links on our product pages, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control these cookies, so for more information on them please see the third-party websites such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. |
DELETING OR BLOCKING COOKIES
The cookies described above may be either “session cookies”, which means they are temporary and are automatically deleted from your computer or device when you close your browser, or they may be “persistent cookies”, which last until their expiry date or until you or your browser delete them. By law, we are required to ask your permission before storing non-essential cookies on your computer. If you choose to block or delete cookies or similar technologies used on our Site, it may prevent the Site from functioning properly or at all.
You may refuse to accept cookies by altering the settings on your internet browser. Generally, this can be done by visiting the “Settings” menu in your browser. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You may also wish to visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices to learn more about the cookies on your device set by other companies and opt out of them if you wish. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our Site.
CHANGES TO COOKIES POLICY
We may change this cookie policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy, and in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice such as adding a statement to the homepage of our Site or sending you an email with the update. Please check this cookie policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy and practices of our Site, you can contact us here through our Portal.