This Cookies Policy gives website visitors some helpful information about cookies and social media plug-ins operating on the website www.dwmcards.com.
- Who we are: We are the Divine Word Missionaries, 3 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4, Ireland, D04 N5W6. We are a registered charity with RCN 20206187 and CHY 669297.
- Our website: Our website is www.dwmcards.com. Our website server is located in Ireland. Further information about the personal data we collect via our website forms [e.g. “contact us”, sign up to newsletter, etc] is set out in our Privacy Notice prepared under Article 13 GDPR. This Cookie Notice relates only to cookies gathered through our website.
- What are cookies: A cookie is a small file sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device to identify you as the user of the website. Many internet sites use cookies. You can find out more information about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org and http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index en.htm.
- Privacy by design and by default: as part of our commitment to the privacy of our benefactors, we set all our non-essential cookies and third-party tracking to “off” by default. We use cookiebot to manage your consent preferences. When you visit our website, the cookiebot tool will explain what sort of cookies operates on the website and provide you with easy access to further details. Non-essential cookies (e.g. preferences, statistics, marketing) are set by default to “off”. This means trackers and non-essential cookies are blocked automatically unless and until you give your consent. You do not have to consent if you do not wish to do so. You can still visit our website even if you reject non-essential cookies and third-party tracking. Non-essential cookies will only be dropped and third-party sharing will only take place if tick the relevant boxes to signify your consent.
- Strictly necessary cookies: Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website (“strictly necessary”).
| Cookie Name | Expiration or retention
period |
Cookie description | Function/purpose |
| 24 hours | HTML | Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the website | |
| User session | HTML | Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the website |
If you adjust your browser settings to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our website, or you may not be able to use sections of the e-commerce part of the website.
- What first-party cookies are on our website: the following cookies on our website relate to Google Analytics. These are set to “off” by default. These cookies will not be dropped unless or until you give your consent. You do not have to consent if you do not wish to do so. You can still visit our website even if you reject non-essential cookies.
| Cookie Name | Expiration or retention
period |
Cookie description | Function/purpose |
| _gat (Google
Analytics) |
1 minute | Used to throttle request rate
to limit the number of |
Tracking |
| _gid (Google
Analytics) |
24 hours. | Used to distinguish visitors to this website. Allows us to know what pages were visited, content, and user activity. | Analytics |
| _ga (Google Analytics) | 2 years from the last visit | Used to distinguish visitors to
this website. Allows us to know what pages were visited, content, and user |
Analytics |
| _unam (ShareThis) | 9 months | Used for ShareThis, a social sharing widget placed on the
the site to enable sharing of clicks and shares of a |
Social media
sharing |
| _fbp (Facebook) | 3 months | This cookie delivers our
advertising to people who have already visited our (or any digital platform powered by Facebook |
Tracking/targeting |
- What third-party cookies are on our website: the following third-party cookies are used on the website. These are set to “off’ by default. These cookies will not be dropped unless or until you give your consent. You do not have to consent if you do not wish to do so. You can still visit our website even if you reject non-essential cookies.
| Cookie Name | Expiration or retention
period |
Function | ||||||
| Fr (facebook) | 3 months | This cookie delivers our
advertising to people who have already visited our (or any digital platform powered by Facebook |
Tracking/targeting | |||||
| _stid (Sharethis.com) | 13 months | This third party allows
website visitors to share |
Social media
sharing Tracking/targeting |
|||||
| Session | Facebook is a third party that allows users to share their news items on social media | Social media sharing
Tracking/targeting |
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- Third-party requests: Our website has third-party requests to a domain that is not ours: (some of the requests involve ex-EEA locations such as the United States of America). We have set out the details below. These are set to “off’ by default. These cookies will not be dropped unless or until you give your consent. You do not have to consent if you do not wish to do so. You can still visit our website even if you reject non-essential cookies.
| ajax.googleapis.com | Used to help with the implementation of the UI | https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html |
| c.sharethis.mgr.consensu.org | Social media integration web parts use the corresponding social media cookies. | ShareThis uses browser cookies to “tag”
visitors on the websites that use ShareThis Publisher Applications. These users are given a technical identifier, such as Pixel tags are then used to transfer this browsing data from visitors of Publishers’ |
| connect.facebook.net | Social media integration web parts use the corresponding social media cookies. | https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
| I.sharethis.com | Social media integration web parts use the corresponding social media cookies. | ShareThis uses browser cookies to “tag”
visitors on the websites that use ShareThis Publisher Applications. These users are given a technical identifier, such as Pixel tags are then used to transfer this browsing data from visitors of Publishers’ |
| staticxx.facebook.com | Social media integration web parts use the corresponding social media cookies. | https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
| stats.g.doubleclick.net | A third-party DoubleClick cookie is used to enable remarketing—for products like AdWords on the Google Display Network. | DoubleClick cookies contain no personally
identifiable information. Sometimes the previously. |
| ws.sharethis.com | Social media integration web parts use the corresponding social media cookies. | ShareThis uses browser cookies to “tag”
visitors on the websites that use ShareThis Publisher Applications. These users are given a technical identifier, such as Pixel tags are then used to transfer this browsing data from visitors of Publishers’ |
| www.facebook.com | Social media integration web parts use the corresponding social media cookies. | https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
| www.google-analytics.com | Used to
distinguish users for web statistics |
https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html |
- Control settings: there may be links to other websites or platforms available on our website. We have no control over those other websites’ data protection practices or cookie policies. In addition to managing your privacy when you are on our website via our cookie bots tool, you can also configure your browser settings to reject cookies/turn off tracking across other websites.
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Safari
- Safari Mobile
- Opera
- Your rights: Under GDPR you have rights that can be exercised at any time by contacting us. Further information about those rights is set out in our Privacy Notice.
- Contact us: If you have any queries, please contact us by email: info@dwmcards.ie or by writing to us at: Divine Word Missionaries, Donamon Castle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, F42 YE13. Phone: +353 (90) 666 2222