What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. It enables our website to identify your computer as you view different pages on our website.  Cookies allow websites and applications to store your preferences to present content, options or functions that are specific to you. They also enable us to see information like how many people use the website and what pages they tend to visit.

How we use cookies

This website uses temporary “session” cookies, which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

• The IP address of the visitor’s web server
• The top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
• The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
• Clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
• The type of web browser used by the website visitor

We may use cookies to:

• Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package. Aggregated usage data helps us improve the website structure, design, content and functions.
• Identify whether you are signed in to our website. A cookie allows us to check whether you are signed in to the site.
• Store information about your preferences. The website can then present you with information you will find more relevant and interesting.
• To recognise when you return to our website. We may show your relevant content, or provide functionality you used previously.
• Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us.
• FK International will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of FK International never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by FK International, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “Personal Data” for the purposes of Data Protection Laws.

Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Inc.)

• This website uses Google Analytics cookies.  Google Analytics uses cookies in order to evaluate your use of our website. These cookies are not shared across domains. Google do not collect or store personal information. Google Analytics prohibits the tracking or collection of personal information or association of personal information with web analytics information.
• Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users’ IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.
• Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
• You can read more about how Google Analytics treats your data at: Google: Safeguarding your data and Google’s full privacy policy.

Controlling cookies

• You can use your web browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies.  However, please note that doing this may affect how our website functions. Some pages and services may become unavailable to you.  Unless you have changed your browser to refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit it.
• To opt-out of Google Analytics, you can click here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

More about Cookies

• To learn more about cookies and how they are used, visit

 www.allaboutcookies.org
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm