Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Stein Commercial Limited trading as Workhub Group (“Workhub”, “we”, “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies on www.workhub.ie. Read it together with our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. Similar technologies include pixels, tags, scripts and local storage, which can store or read information on your device in the same way. In this policy we call all of these “cookies”.

Some cookies are set by us (first-party cookies). Others are set by other companies whose services we use (third-party cookies), or are set in our name by scripts those companies provide.

Your choice

Under Irish law (Regulation 5 of the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011) we need your consent before we store or read any cookie that is not strictly necessary.

• When you first visit, our banner lets you Accept or Reject non-essential cookies. Both options are equally easy.
• Analytics and marketing cookies stay off until you click Accept. If you reject, or ignore the banner, they stay off.
• You can change your mind at any time by clicking Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. Withdrawing consent stops future use. It does not affect use before you withdrew.
• We record your choice on your device so we do not ask on every page. We ask again after 6 months, or sooner if we add new types of cookie.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the site may not work.

Cookies we use

1. Strictly necessary

These make the site work and keep it secure. They do not need consent and cannot be switched off in our banner.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry
consentChoice (local storage)	Workhub	Remembers whether you accepted or rejected non-essential cookies	6 months
__cf_bm	Cloudflare	Distinguishes people from bots to protect the site	30 minutes
_GRECAPTCHA	Google (reCAPTCHA)	Protects our forms from spam and abuse	6 months

If you pay through our checkout, you are taken to a payment page hosted by Stripe, which sets its own cookies for fraud prevention under Stripe’s cookie policy.

2. Analytics (only with your consent)

These tell us how people use the site so we can improve it. We see reports, not your identity.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry
_ga	Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited)	Distinguishes visitors	2 years
_ga_G6PTL3GC8B	Google Analytics 4	Keeps track of your session	2 years

Google Analytics keeps event data for 2 months and user-level data for up to 14 months.

3. Marketing (only with your consent)

These measure whether our adverts work and let us show relevant adverts to people who have visited our site.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry
_gcl_au, _gcl_aw	Google Ads (Google Ireland Limited)	Links a visit or enquiry to the Google advert you clicked	90 days
IDE, test_cookie (on doubleclick.net)	Google Ads	Remarketing: shows our adverts to people who have visited our site	IDE 13 months; test_cookie 15 minutes
Google Ads call tracking	Google Ads	Shows a forwarding number to measure phone calls that come from Google adverts	90 days
_fbp, fr (on facebook.com)	Meta Pixel (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited)	Measures enquiries and purchases from Facebook and Instagram adverts and builds audiences for adverts	90 days
sa-user-id, sa-user-id-v2, sa-user-id-v3	StackAdapt Inc.	Measures and targets our display adverts	up to 1 year
__oppref	OpenAI Ads (OpenAI Ireland Limited)	Stores the click reference when you arrive from an advert in ChatGPT, so we can tell whether that advert led to an enquiry or purchase	30 days, renewed if you click another of our ChatGPT adverts
__obref	OpenAI Ads	A random reference for your browser on our site, used to measure conversions	365 days

If you reject analytics or marketing cookies, Google Analytics and Google Ads may still send limited signals without setting or reading cookies (for example, that a page was viewed). Google uses these to model overall numbers. They are not linked to a cookie identifier on your device.

More about the OpenAI Ads pixel

We advertise in ChatGPT. When you accept marketing cookies, our site loads OpenAI’s measurement pixel from bzrcdn.openai.com. When you send an enquiry, buy a plan, tap our phone number or click to book a tour, the pixel tells OpenAI that the action happened. It sends the click reference, the page address, the time and, for purchases, the order value in euro.

Where automatic advanced matching is enabled, the pixel may also take your email address or phone number from the form you complete, convert it into a one-way coded value (a SHA-256 hash) in your browser, and send only that coded value. We never send OpenAI your messages or sensitive information.

OpenAI Ireland Limited receives this information as a separate controller. It uses it to report conversions to us and, as its own privacy policy explains, to measure and improve its services, including the relevance of adverts shown to ChatGPT Free and Go users. ChatGPT users can manage this in ChatGPT’s advertising settings. If you reject marketing cookies, the pixel does not load and nothing is sent.

Who receives the data, and where

Google, Meta, StackAdapt and OpenAI act as separate (independent) controllers for the data their tags collect, under their own privacy policies:

• Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://business.safety.google/privacy/
• Meta: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
• StackAdapt: https://www.stackadapt.com/privacy-policy
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/policies/eu-privacy-policy/

For the Meta Pixel, Workhub and Meta are joint controllers for collecting the data and sending it to Meta, under Meta’s Controller Addendum. Meta is solely responsible for what it does afterwards.

Some of these companies process data in the United States. Google, Meta and OpenAI rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and/or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. StackAdapt is based in Canada, which the European Commission recognises as providing adequate protection for commercial organisations.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when we add or remove cookies. The date at the top shows the latest version, and we will ask for your consent again if we add a new type of cookie.

Contact

Questions about cookies or your data: info@workhub.ie, or write to the Data Privacy Manager, Workhub Group, 77 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2. You can also complain to the Data Protection Commission at www.dataprotection.ie.