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Cookie Notice

Davy is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our website. This notice explains how Davy uses cookies on Davy webportals, other websites we provide and on Davy applications that you may download on your devices (collectively our “website”). To the extent that any personal data is processed through cookies or similar technologies, our Privacy Notice applies and complements this Notice.

Our use of cookies may be subject to change from time to time to reflect changes in technology or legislation and we will update this page when we make material changes. The information on this page was last updated on 22nd July 2024.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that our website asks your browser to store on your device in order to retrieve information to perform certain functions and remember visits to our website. These cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies to assist with our marketing and advertising efforts. A third-party cookie is one set by a domain other than the one you are visiting.

There are two distinct types of cookies. First are called “session cookies” and these last for the duration of your visit and are deleted from your computer or device when you close your browser. The second type of cookies used are called “persistent cookies” which are saved for a defined period of time on your computer or device or until they are forcibly deleted.

How to manage or refuse cookies? 

When you visit our website, you can submit your cookies preferences by clicking on “Accept all” or “Reject all” when the cookie banner pops up. You can also manage your preferences to each type of cookie by clicking on “Cookies Settings” in the cookie banner pop up. This will direct you to our “Privacy Preference Centre” which allows you to accept or reject each type of cookie that is described below.

You may change your cookies preferences at any time under the “Cookies Settings” on the homepage.

You may also disable and delete all your device’s cookies by changing the appropriate setting within your browser’s “Help”, “Tools”, or “Settings” menu.

Some functionalities on our websites require the use of cookies and disabling or blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of our site and the services we are able to offer. Strictly Necessary cookies are required for the website to function and cannot be rejected.

How we use cookies? 

We use information gathered from cookies to help improve your experience on our website, for security and to personalise content. For example, your language preference, login information or market watch lists.

Davy uses First Party Analytics (Matomo)

We use Matomo as our First Party Analytics provider to track user’s behaviour and performance on our website. By default a cookie-less version of Matomo is used which you can disable. This means:

  • tracking cookies are not used, and no user profile is generated;
  • data is never used for any other purpose than understanding how our websites are utilised;
  • this data is never shared with third parties;
  • users aren’t tracked across websites;
  • a user cannot be tracked across days within the same website (no user profiles can be generated when cookies are disabled);

When a user consents to Performance tracking Matomo will use cookies, Matomo will use them to generate an anonymised user profile to help us understand how users interact with our websites. This data is never shared with third parties.

Disabling First Party Analytics (Matomo)

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analysing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions on the website and creating a better experience for you and other users.

Disable First Party Analytics

Davy uses hCaptcha

We use hCaptcha as a human verification tool during the private site login and account set up functions. This measure is to assist in preventing automated or scripted attacks. This feature is provided by hCaptcha and does not collect your personal data.

Cookies used on our site

Our websites use four types of cookies, depending on their functionalities and purpose.

1.    Strictly Necessary: These cookies are necessary for the Davy websites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information. 

Name of Cookie Cookie Type Domain Host Lifespan Purpose
JSESSIONID First Party davy.ie
creditunion.davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
mydavy.ie
Davy Session Used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.
_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and codes into a page, without it other cookies may not function correctly.
DavySelectFav First Party davyselect.ie Davy 1 Year Holds a random value based on current timestamp and it is used to enable the watchlist functionality on the sites for the visitor.
DavyFav First Party davy.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Holds a random value based on current timestamp and it is used to enable the watchlist functionality on the sites for the visitor.
XSRF-TOKEN First Party mydavy.ie
davyselectbroker.ie
Davy Session Used to prevent CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attacks. This is top prevent an innocent website user from being tricked by an attacker into submitting a web request that they did not intend.
DavyConsent First Party mydavy.ie
davyselectbroker.ie
Davy 1 Year Sets a secure flag that indicates if the user has seen the current cookie banner for strictly necessary cookies and selected not show it again.
dismissCookieSlider First Party creditunion.davy.ie
davyselectbroker.ie
Davy 1 Year Sets a secure flag that indicates if the user has seen the current cookie banner for strictly necessary cookies and selected not show it again.
OptanonConsent First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Set by the cookie management software to manage user’s cookie consent.
OptanonAlertBoxClosed First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Set by the cookie management software to manage user’s cookie consent.
mtm_consent_removed First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Matomo to remember that consent was removed by the user for cookie-less analytics

2.    Functional: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Name of Cookie Cookie Type Domain Host Lifespan Purpose
__cf_bm Third Party mydavy.ie
davyselect.ie
fonts.net 30 Minutes Used by Cloudflare to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect fonts.net from bad bots.
__cf_bm Third Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
vimeo.com 30 Minutes Used by Cloudflare to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect fonts.net from bad bots.
vuid Third Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
vimeo.com 2 Years Video player interactions cookie used by the Vimeo video player for statistical purposes, such as tracking how long a viewer has watched a video.
player Third Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
vimeo.com 1 Year Video player cookie that is used to store user preferences for the video. For example, it will help carry over specific settings (like volume, closed captions language, etc) across multiple player sessions.
_cfuvid Third Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
vimeo.com Session A Cloudflare cookie that enforces rate limiting rules. The '_cfuvid' cookie is essential for users who interact with Vimeo-hosted videos, ensuring a smooth and secure viewing experience. It is particularly important for users embedding Vimeo videos on other websites, as it contributes to consistent performance and security across different platforms.

3. Performance: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Name of Cookie Cookie Type Domain Host Lifespan Purpose
_pk_id First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 13 Months Used by Matomo to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.
_pk_ref First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 6 Months Used by Matomo to store the attribution information, the referrer initially used to visit the website.
_pk_ses First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Matomo to temporarily store data for the visit.
_pk_cvar First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Matomo to temporarily store data for the visit.
_pk_cvar First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Matomo to temporarily store data for the visit.
pk_testcookie_domain First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 second Used by Matomo to test if the browser provides the functionality to have cookies stored.
matomo_sessid First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Matomo to prevent CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attacks. This is to prevent an innocent website user from being tricked by an attacker into submitting a web request that they did not intend.
_pk_hsr First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Matomo to track the Heatmap or Session Recording.
_ga First Party davy.ie
davyuk.co.uk
davyselect.ie
Davy 2 Years Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_ga_FQD9BZ79EB First Party davy.ie Davy 2 Years Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_ga_WD6WDSFJSK First Party davyuk.co.uk Davy 2 Years Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_ga_TH3QVTVBLD First Party davyselect.ie Davy 2 Years Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_gat_UA-1866161-1 First Party davy.ie Davy Session Used by Google Analytics to limit or throttle the amount of data recorded on high traffic volume websites.
_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn First Party davyuk.co.uk Davy 90 Days A pattern type cookie used by Google Analytics where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.
_gclxxxx First Party davy.ie
davyselect.ie
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 90 Days Used by Google Analytics to measure performance and conversions onsite.
_gid First Party davy.ie
davyuk.co.uk
davyselect.ie
Davy 1 Day Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.

4. Targeting: These cookies may be set through our websites by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will likely experience less targeted advertising.

Name of Cookie Cookie Type Domain Host Lifespan Purpose
_fbp First Party davy.ie Davy 90 Days Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers.
IDE Third Party davy.ie
davyuk.co.uk
davyselect.ie
doubleclick.net 13 Months DoubleClick uses this cookie for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests to show relevant & personalised advertising.
test_cookie Third Party davy.ie
davyuk.co.uk
davyselect.ie
doubleclick.net Session Doubleclick uses this cookie to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.
_gcl_au First Party davy.ie
davyuk.co.uk
davyselect.ie
Davy 2 Years First party cookie for “Conversion Linker” functionality – it takes information in ad clicks and stores it in a first-party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside the landing page.
bcookie Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com 2 Years Used by LinkedIn to allow users to share the content of the website via social media.
bscookie Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com 2 Years Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
lang Third Party davy.ie ads.linkedin.com Session LinkedIn uses a cookie to remember a user's language setting.
lang Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com Session LinkedIn uses this cookie to remember a user's language preferences.
lidc Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com Session LinkedIn uses this cookie to optimise data centre selection.
personalization_id Third Party davy.ie twitter.com 2 Years Used by Twitter to enable the integration and content sharing capabilities for the social media platform.
muc_ads Third Party davy.ie twitter.com 2 Years Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant.
UserMatchHistory Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com 30 Days LinkedIn uses this cookie to enable and manage LinkedIn Ads ID syncing.
AnalyticsSyncHistory Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com 30 Days Set by LinkedIn to place a content sharing button.
li_gc Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com 2 Years Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
li_sugr Third Party davy.ie linkedin.com 90 days Used by LinkedIn to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the countries designated by LinkedIn.
ln_or Third Party davy.ie
marketwatch.davy.ie
linkedin.com 1 days LinkedIn has its own analytics solution called Oribi. This cookie is used to determine if Oribi analytics can be activated on this website.

Local Storage items used on our site

1. Strictly Necessary: These Local storage items are necessary for the Davy websites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these local storage items, but some parts of the site will not then work. These local storage items do not store any personal data.

Name of Local Storage Item Domain Host Lifespan Purpose
cc_status marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, to store a user’s cookie preference (accepted)
cc_date marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
ww.marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, to calculate when a user needs to renew their cookie preferences (1 year)
cc_settings marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
ww.marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, to store specific cookie preferences (about preferences, statistics, marketing)
whitepaper.userHasAccess marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
ww.marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, to identify users who already subscribed

2. Performance: These local storage items allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these local storage items collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these local storage items we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Name of Local Storage Item Domain Host Lifespan Purpose
ia-client marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
ww.marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 1 Year Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, distinguish between different visitors
ia_session marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
ww.marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, to log session data of the users that visit.
referrerParamsFromUrl marketwatch.davy.ie
davy.ie
marketwatch.davyselect.ie
davyselect.ie
ww.marketwatch.davyuk.co.uk
davyuk.co.uk
Davy 30 Minutes Used by Foleon, a digital magazine platform, to collect the attribution information (how the user was directed to the magazine)