Cookies Policy

holdtechfiles.eu (our site) is a site operated by Hold Tech Files Ltd. (we, our, us). We are registered in the Republic of Ireland under company number 650798. Our registered office is at Dun Iseal, Newtown, Gaulsmills, Ferrybank, Waterford, X91F638.

Our site, holdtechfiles.eu, uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do so below), however such action is likely to mean that our site will not function as intended.

A “cookie” is a piece of information, like a tag, that’s stored on your device when you visit a website. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the user. A cookie cannot read data from a user’s hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites.

The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites. We use information obtained from cookies to tailor our services better to our users’ needs. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on such data.

We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be posted on our site and will take effect as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use our site after any changes are posted you are indicating your acceptance of those changes.

We use the following cookies

Strictly necessary cookies – these are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site.
Analytical/performance cookies – these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies – these are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can find out more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Function	Category and expiry	More information
_ga	Used to distinguish users	2 years	Click here for more privacy information
_gat	Used to throttle request rate	10 minutes	Click here for more privacy information
CAKEPHP	cakephp generates this automatically to track the cakephp session (CAKEPHP)	2 days
session	session identifier; no user information is stored in the cookies	session

Turning off cookies

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information about how to change your browser settings please see www.aboutcookies.org. Doing so, however, is likely to limit the functionality of our site.