Cookie Notice
Version 1.1 · Effective date: 30 July 2026
Legal and compliance review in progress.
This interim document describes our current practices and may be updated. Our provider, retention, unsubscribe, GDPR and EU AI Act review is scheduled for completion no later than 10 December 2026. Until then, this page remains excluded from search indexing and should not be read as a certification of full legal compliance.
How we use cookies and browser storage
Strictly necessary items are always active because the site cannot function without them: they keep administrators signed in, unlock the newsletter archive for your current session, remember your cookie choices, and protect our forms from automated abuse.
Everything else is optional and switched off until you turn it on. Nothing optional is written to your device, and no external video is loaded, before you make a choice. Refusing is exactly as easy as accepting, and refusing does not degrade the site: the audio player still works, and articles still read normally.
Categories
- Functional — remembers your audio playback position and speed.
- Analytics — measures site usage with Google Analytics (pages viewed, scrolls, outbound clicks, downloads and similar events) and how far articles are listened to, using identifiers that are not linked to your name or email.
- External media — allows embedded YouTube or Vimeo videos to load. Until you allow this, a placeholder is shown instead of the video.
- Marketing measurement — allows Meta Pixel to count visits and completed free audits from Facebook and Instagram ads. It stays off unless you allow it.
What is stored
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aim_cookie_consent | AIMarketer.ie | Remembers your cookie choices so we do not ask again. | Strictly necessary | 6 months |
| sb-…-auth-token | Lovable Cloud (Supabase) | Keeps a signed-in administrator signed in. | Strictly necessary | Until sign-out or expiry |
| Newsletter archive unlock | AIMarketer.ie | Unlocks past issues after you enter your access code. | Strictly necessary (session storage) | Cleared when the tab is closed |
| sidebar_state | AIMarketer.ie | Remembers the administration sidebar position. | Strictly necessary (administrators only) | 7 days |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare | Checks that a form submission comes from a person. Processes your IP address and browser characteristics. | Strictly necessary (security) | Short-lived, set by Cloudflare |
| aim_audio_pos_… , aim_audio_rate | AIMarketer.ie | Remembers where you paused an article's audio and your playback speed. | Functional (optional) | Until you clear it or withdraw consent |
| aim_audio_session | AIMarketer.ie | A random identifier used to count how far articles are listened to. Not linked to your name or email. | Analytics (optional) | Until you clear it or withdraw consent |
| _ga, _ga_*, _gid | Google Analytics 4 | Distinguishes visitors and sessions so we can measure pages viewed, scrolls, outbound clicks, downloads and similar site-usage events. Set only after you allow analytics. | Analytics (optional) | Up to 2 years (_ga); shorter for session cookies |
| _fbp, _fbc | Meta Pixel | Measures visits and successful free-audit completions attributed to Facebook and Instagram ads. No audit answers, names or email addresses are included in these events. Loaded only after marketing consent. | Marketing measurement (optional) | Up to 3 months; removed when you withdraw marketing consent |
| YouTube / Vimeo player storage | YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode), Vimeo | Plays a video embedded in an article. Set by the provider once the video loads. | External media (optional) | Set by the provider |
Changing your mind
You can change or withdraw your choices at any time. When you withdraw a category we also remove what that category had stored.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary items may stop forms, sign-in or the newsletter archive from working. For how we handle personal information generally, see our Privacy Notice.
Questions about cookies: privacy@aimarketer.ie.