Cookie Policy

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, which can persist between visits, and session storage, which normally lasts for a browsing session. They can support requested functionality or other purposes, depending on how they are used.

Technologies used on this website

We use a first-party cookie called mbs_consent to remember your privacy choices for six months. It is sent over HTTPS with Secure and SameSite=Lax protection and applies across this website. It contains only a random consent ID, Essential enabled status, your Analytics, Marketing and Functional choices, the consent timestamp, the notice/policy version and the expiry date. It contains no name or contact details.

Essential is always enabled for remembering and recording these choices. With your permission, Google Analytics 4 helps us understand visits to our pages. Marketing would support advertising measurement or remarketing. Functional would remember optional settings or support extra features. Analytics, Marketing and Functional are off by default. Google Analytics loads only after Analytics consent; no marketing or optional functional tools are installed. Optional tools may only load after their category has been selected and the choice successfully recorded. A new service or changed notice requires renewed consent before activation.

When you allow Analytics, we load Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited) to measure website visits. It receives a random analytics identifier, page views and basic browser/device information. We send the authored page address and title without query strings or fragments and suppress the page referrer. We do not send your name, email address, telephone number, enquiry text or form-field values, and do not send our consent-record ID to Google. Advertising personalisation, Google Signals and advertising consent remain disabled.

Google Analytics uses first-party _ga and _ga_WGMNW3NH5X cookies to distinguish browsers and maintain session information. We configure their lifetime to 180 days. Your separate consent preference expires after six months. No Google measurement library, request or analytics cookie is initiated before Analytics consent. Marketing consent alone does not enable Analytics. Withdrawal disables subsequent measurement and removes accessible GA cookies; it cannot recall information already sent.

Analytics processing is based on your consent. Google receives your network IP address when your browser connects; Google states that it does not log or store individual IP addresses from EU, Switzerland or UK users. This is separate from our own consent record, which does not retain your IP. Google may process information outside the EEA under its applicable data-protection arrangements. See Google’s Privacy Policy and Google Analytics privacy information. Contact info@mbsintegrations.ie with privacy questions.

Fonts are served locally. Scripts support navigation, form validation and visual features. Your browser may cache website resources.

Your choices

Use Cookie settings in the footer of any page to review or change your choices. Choose Reject non-essential to turn off all optional categories, or save them separately. Withdrawing consent stops future optional tracking and removes known optional first-party cookies where technically possible. It does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. The website remains usable when you refuse optional tools.

We ask again after six months, if you clear the preference cookie, or when the consent notice, banner UI or Cookie Policy version changes. If saving fails, optional tools remain off and you can retry. Browser settings can also remove or block cookies; blocked preference storage means your choices cannot be remembered.

External services

If you choose a WhatsApp or other external link, you leave this website and interact with a service that has its own privacy and storage practices. An external link is different from an embedded tracker or widget that contacts a provider while you browse a page.

You can review those services’ privacy notices and browser settings before using them.

Contact

For questions about cookies, website technologies or your information, contact us by email. Further information is available in our Privacy Policy.

Cookie choices and consent records

We keep a separate consent record to demonstrate and honour your choices. Each change adds a new event rather than overwriting the earlier evidence. The record contains only an internal event number, random consent ID, event type (accept all, reject non-essential, customised, updated or withdrawn), Essential enabled status, Analytics, Marketing and Functional choices, consent-notice version, Cookie Policy version, banner UI version, browser-reported click time in UTC with millisecond precision, UTC server receipt timestamp, basic browser family, operating-system family and approximate two-letter country code where available.

This consent record contains no name, email address, phone number, full or partial IP address, complete user-agent string, fingerprint, advertising identifier or browsing history. It is separate from ordinary hosting/security logs and any information you submit through the contact form. Consent records are retained for 12 months from each event, then removed by daily scheduled cleanup. Our legitimate interest in documenting privacy choices and resolving consent disputes is the basis for this limited evidence record. Browser and operating-system names are derived from the request without retaining the full user-agent string or device/version details. The requesting IP address is used transiently for a country-only lookup in a database held on our own server, not sent to an external lookup service, and not saved in the consent record. Country is approximate and may reflect a VPN or network location; unavailable results remain blank. Browser-reported click time can be affected by the device clock, so we retain server receipt time separately. Records from earlier releases retain only the fields collected at that time. The banner UI version links to an archived copy of the wording, layout and styling. Country data: IP Geolocation by DB-IP, licensed under CC BY 4.0; converted to a local lookup format.