Cookie Policy

COOKIES POLICY

Theatre Royal Waterford engages in well-targeted online advertising of our events or fundraising activities which are essential to our sales and public awareness.
Under legitimate interest, we use third-party tools on our website (see cookies section) for our main online advertising partners – Meta and Google – to be able to create custom audiences of people who have expressed an interest in a particular event or service based on their behaviour on our website or previous purchasing history.
These platforms can also act as a data processor for Theatre Royal Waterford if we provide them with data that we’re holding to create a custom audience.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use Google Analytics to determine how popular parts of our website are, to determine if you have been to the website before, and to securely, and anonymously, record the value of any purchases you make on our website.
Google analytics sets cookies which will stay active for a number of years and identify on your computer that youhave visited our website.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you visit by installing a browser plugin at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
As well as the advertising conversion tracking and targeting pixels outlined above, where we are essentially the data controller, we also host various third-party tools and services on the website to enhance your experience, help you share information or enable us to optimise online advertising campaigns. These tools include social like or share buttons and embedded secure forms for sign-ups or competitions. They also include services to enable us to embed our media into the website – e.g., to embed video, we use tools from YouTube, Meta, or Vimeo.
These tools or services often include cookies from these third parties. Theatre Royal Waterford is not the Data controller for the information gathered via these cookies and has no access to the information. Please read each of their own privacy policies for more information.

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see https://www.aboutcookies.org/. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.
If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.

Updated August 2023