RepatPrescription.ie (“we”, “our”, “us”) use cookies on the site www.repeatprescription.ie (“Service”). By using the Service, you agree to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy briefly explains what cookies are, how we use them and your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are Cookies, and how are they used?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

In general, cookies can be “session” or “persistent” cookies.

Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are not stored on your computer or mobile device, but they are created temporarily in your browser’s subfolder while you are visiting a website and they are not stored on your computer or mobile device. An example, a session cookie is also used to remember your language preference when viewing the site. These session cookies are erased when you close your browser, or after 20 minutes of inactivity therefore once you leave the site, the session cookie is deleted.

Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a predefined length of time when you visit this site, and they remain in your browser’s subfolder and are activated again once you visit the website that created that particular cookie. A persistent cookie remains in the browser’s subfolder for the duration period set within the cookie’s file.

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly but cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

How is RepeatPrescription.ie using cookies

When you use and access our Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: To help us recognise you, to improve your experience, to increase security and to measure the use of our Services. We may also use cookies to ensure that content from RepeatPrescription.ie is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer and to enable certain functions of the Service.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the website and use all the features. They are used to manage and identify you as unique to other users currently viewing the website and enable you to login into secure areas.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service.

Please find below information in relation with third-party cookies being used on our Site:

What are your options regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please check our instructions on how to disable cookies on your chosen browser as per below:

• Internet Explorer
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari

Please note, that if you refuse to accept cookies or delete them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, such as you will not be able to store your preferences and our Service might not display properly.

Key tips for safe and responsible cookie-based Web browsing

Due to their flexibility and the fact that our service uses cookies by default, cookies are almost inevitable. Disabling cookies will lock a user out of many of the most widely-used sites on the Internet like YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo mail, and many others. Even search settings require cookies for language settings.

Here are some tips you can use to ensure worry-free cookie-based browsing:

Customise your browser’s cookie settings to reflect your comfort level with cookie security or use our guide to delete cookies.

If you are very comfortable with cookies and you are the only person using your computer, you may want to set long expiration time frames for storing your personal access information, including your browsing history.

If you share access on your computer, you may want to set your browser to clear private browsing data every time you close your browser. While not as secure as rejecting cookies outright, this option allows you to access cookie-based websites while deleting any sensitive information after your browsing session.

Make sure your browser is updated and if you haven’t already, set your browser to update automatically. This will eliminate security vulnerabilities caused by outdated browsers because many cookie-based exploits are based on exploiting older browsers’ security shortcomings.

Where can you find more information about cookies

If you’d like to learn more about cookies and find out how to disable Cookies, please visit the following independent websites:

AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org

WhatAreCookies: http://www.whatarecookies.com

This document was last updated in July 2023