What are Cookies?
A cookie is a tiny file that is saved by your browser when you visit a website. This is sometimes referred to as "dropping a cookie".
Cookies enable certain information about your visit to be stored by the site — saving you from re-entering information in the future (such as preferences) and enhancing the overall experience, including the speed and security of the website. Some cookies are essential in order for a website to run as you expect it to.
Some cookies are active only during your session on the website and will automatically delete after you close your browser. Other cookies are persistent and will either expire after a certain period of time (e.g. one month) or when you tell them to in your browser's settings.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies on our website for the following reasons:
- Essential functionality — to make our website work properly, including remembering your cookie preferences.
- Performance and analytics — to understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it.
- Security — to help protect our site and your data.
- Preferences — to remember choices you make (for example, accepting or rejecting non-essential cookies).
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
Types of Cookies
Cookies can be classified in several ways:
By purpose
- Strictly Necessary cookies are essential for the website to function. They cannot be switched off.
- Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing content on social media, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
- Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website — providing information on visitor counts, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
- Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website to help deliver a better user experience.
- Advertisement cookies provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
By origin
- First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting.
- Third-party cookies are set by a different domain than the one you are visiting — typically for analytics or embedded content.
By duration
- Session cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period.
Third-Party Cookies
In some cases we may use trusted third-party services that also set cookies. These services include:
- Cloudflare — for site performance, DDoS protection, and security, including the Turnstile check on our enquiry form that confirms a person, not a bot, is sending it.
- Google Fonts — for loading web fonts (may set cookies for font-loading optimisation).
These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies. We encourage you to review them if you want more information on how your data is handled.
If you choose to book a meeting online, you are taken to Calendly’s own website in a new tab. Calendly is not loaded on this site and sets no cookies here; any cookies it uses are set on calendly.com under Calendly’s own cookie policy.
Your Consent
When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner asking for your consent. You can choose to:
- Accept All — allow essential and optional cookies.
- Reject — allow only essential cookies (strictly necessary for the site to function).
Your choice is stored locally in your browser. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link in the footer of any page.
Managing Cookies
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please note that removing or blocking cookies may impact your user experience and parts of this website may no longer be fully accessible.
Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can:
- Delete cookies from your device.
- Block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
- Set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie.
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Changes to this Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:
McNulty Business Advisory
Email: kevin@
Phone: +44 28 9081 3391
Address: Belfast, Northern Ireland