Cookie Policy

Use of cookies by Law Society of Northern Ireland 

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.  

Information about our use of cookies

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

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use a shopping cart.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website 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 website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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

Cookie	Name	Duration	More information
ASP.NET_SessionId	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On Browser close	Website functionality
Currency	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Ecommerce functionality
CustomerName	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
NID	www.google.com	6 months	Google Preferences
UULE	www.google.com	1 day	Google Preferences & Maps
__utma	www.lawsoc-ni.org	1 day	Google Analytics
__utmb	www.lawsoc-ni.org	1 day	Google Analytics
__utmc	www.lawsoc-ni.org	1 day	Google Analytics
__utmt	www.lawsoc-ni.org	1 day	Google Analytics
__utmz	www.lawsoc-ni.org	1 day	Google Analytics
cartSubTotal	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
cookiePolicy	www.lawsoc-ni.org	1 hour	Website functionality
idCustomer	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
idCustomerType	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
idDbSession	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
int_TotalCartItems	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
str_IdCustomer	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
str_IdDbSession	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality
str_IdDbSessionCart	www.lawsoc-ni.org	On browser close	Website functionality

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Turning cookies off 

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. 

Granting us permission to use cookies 

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can do this through your browser settings, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Opting out of cookie usage 

If you want to control which cookies you accept, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website's server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser. You may find that some parts of the site will not function properly if you have refused cookies.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.