IGH3P® Cookie Policy
Last updated: August 2026
1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how the IGH3P® website uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with our website.
The website is operated by:
IRISH GUILD OF NLP AND HYPNOTHERAPY PRACTITIONERS AND TRAINERS LTD
trading as:
INTERNATIONAL GUILD OF HYPNOTHERAPY, NLP, AND 3 PRINCIPLES PRACTITIONERS AND TRAINERS – IGH3P®
Throughout this Cookie Policy, we refer to the organisation as “IGH3P®”, “IGH3P”, “we”, “us” or “our”.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how and why we process personal information.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website stores on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can perform a number of functions. For example, they may allow a website to recognise your device, maintain a secure session, remember preferences, understand how a website is being used or determine how a visitor arrived at a website.
Some cookies exist only for the duration of your browsing session and are removed afterwards. Others may remain on your device for a specified period or until they are deleted.
The ICO describes a cookie as a small text file downloaded onto a user's device which enables a website to recognise that device and store information about preferences or previous actions.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Although this Policy uses the term “cookies” for convenience, the relevant privacy rules can also apply to other technologies that store information on, or access information from, your device.
These may include technologies such as:
- cookies;
- web or local storage;
- tracking pixels;
- scripts and tags;
- link or navigational tracking; and
- similar storage and access technologies.
The ICO confirms that PECR is not limited to traditional cookies and can apply to these other forms of storage and access technology.
4. How IGH3P® Uses Cookies
Cookies and similar technologies may be used on the IGH3P® website to:
- enable essential website functionality;
- maintain secure website and member sessions;
- facilitate account login and authentication;
- remember website preferences;
- remember certain actions or choices;
- support forms, registrations or transactions;
- understand how visitors reach and use our website;
- measure website performance;
- improve our website and services; and
- where applicable and permitted, measure the effectiveness of communications or campaigns.
We aim only to use cookies and similar technologies where there is an appropriate purpose for doing so.
5. Categories of Cookies and Technologies We Use
The IGH3P® website uses, or may use, the following categories of cookies and similar technologies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These technologies are required for the operation, security or functionality of the website and services specifically requested by the visitor.
They may be used to:
- maintain website and member sessions;
- enable secure login functionality;
- process transactions or form submissions;
- maintain website security; and
- provide functionality specifically requested by you.
Where a technology satisfies an applicable exemption under PECR, consent may not be required.
Preference and Functionality Cookies
These technologies enable the website to remember certain choices or preferences and provide enhanced functionality.
They may, for example, remember whether particular content has previously been displayed or preserve settings associated with your use of the website.
Analytics and Performance Technologies
We use analytics technologies to help us understand how visitors find and use the IGH3P® website.
These technologies can provide information about matters such as pages visited, how visitors navigate through the website, approximate location, device and browser information, traffic sources and interactions with website content.
We use this information to understand website performance and improve the experience we provide to visitors.
Advertising and Marketing Technologies
With the appropriate consent, we may use advertising and marketing technologies to help us understand the effectiveness of our advertising, measure conversions and, where applicable, deliver or help deliver advertising to relevant audiences.
These technologies may recognise that a visitor has interacted with the IGH3P® website and may enable information about that interaction to be used by our advertising partners in accordance with their own privacy practices.
6. Simplero
The IGH3P® website is built and operated using Simplero, which provides website, membership, forms, account, communications and related online functionality.
Simplero can set first-party cookies necessary for the operation of its platform and other cookies relating to preferences, statistics, referrals and website interactions.
Examples published by Simplero include:
| Cookie | Category | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
_simplero_session_id |
Strictly Necessary | Maintains information relating to the visitor's current activity or transaction |
_simplero_autologin |
Strictly Necessary | Supports login functionality across Simplero-hosted services |
simplero_hide_welcome_back |
Preference | Remembers whether a welcome-back message should be displayed |
(number)-shown |
Preference | Remembers whether a particular pop-up has been displayed |
simplero_object_id |
Preference | Provides context when arriving from certain externally hosted pages |
affiliate_id |
Statistics | Records an affiliate referral where applicable |
affiliate_for_program-(number) |
Statistics | Records relevant programme affiliate referral information |
blog_post_(number) |
Statistics | Records interaction with a particular blog post |
message_(number) |
Statistics | Records interaction with a particular message |
landing_page_(number) |
Statistics | Records interaction with a particular landing page |
(number)_converted |
Statistics | Records completion of an associated action |
simplero-utm-params |
Statistics | Records relevant traffic-source information |
simplero-last-referring-site |
Statistics | Records information about the referring website |
The particular Simplero cookies encountered by a visitor will depend upon the website functionality being used.
For further information about Simplero's processing practices, please see the Simplero Privacy Policy.
7. Google Analytics
IGH3P® uses Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
Google Analytics may collect information about your use of the website, including information concerning:
- pages viewed;
- visits and interactions;
- approximate geographic location;
- browser and device information;
- referring websites or traffic sources; and
- the way visitors navigate and interact with our website.
We use this information to measure website usage, understand how visitors find IGH3P®, identify which areas of the website are useful and improve the performance and effectiveness of our website.
Google may process information collected through Google Analytics in accordance with its own privacy practices.
Where consent is required by applicable law, Google Analytics technologies will only be activated after you have provided the appropriate consent.
You can find further information about Google's handling of information through its services in the Google Privacy Policy.
8. Your Cookie Choices
Where consent is required, you should be given an appropriate opportunity to decide whether to accept the relevant cookies or similar technologies.
You may withdraw or change your consent for non-essential cookies where the website's cookie preference facility allows you to do so.
You can also manage cookies through your web browser.
Depending upon your browser, you may be able to:
- view cookies stored on your device;
- delete existing cookies;
- block some or all cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- configure cookie permissions for particular websites; or
- clear cookies and other website data.
The ICO confirms that browsers generally provide controls allowing users to delete, block or otherwise manage cookies.
Please be aware that blocking or deleting some cookies may affect the functionality of the IGH3P® website. In particular, strictly necessary cookies may be required for features such as secure login, transactions or other requested services.
9. Cookie Consent
IGH3P® aims to comply with the requirements of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) and applicable UK data-protection legislation.
Where consent is required, it must involve an appropriate positive choice. Merely continuing to browse a website does not by itself constitute valid consent for non-exempt cookies.
Cookies and similar technologies that fall within an applicable statutory exemption may be used without consent where the conditions of that exemption are satisfied.
Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data, the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 may also apply.
10. Keeping Our Cookie Use Under Review
We periodically review the cookies and similar technologies used through the IGH3P® website.
This may include reviewing:
- which technologies are being used;
- why they are required;
- whether they are first-party or third-party technologies;
- whether they involve personal information;
- how long they remain active;
- whether consent is required; and
- whether they remain necessary and proportionate.
This reflects the ICO's recommended approach of auditing cookie use, documenting purposes and durations, distinguishing necessary from non-necessary technologies and periodically reviewing their use.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:
- the IGH3P® website;
- technologies used on the website;
- our service providers;
- our privacy practices; or
- applicable legislation or regulatory guidance.
The most recent version will be published on the IGH3P® website together with the date on which it was last updated.
12. Contact IGH3P®
If you have questions about our use of cookies or other storage and access technologies, please contact:
IRISH GUILD OF NLP AND HYPNOTHERAPY PRACTITIONERS AND TRAINERS LTD
trading as
INTERNATIONAL GUILD OF HYPNOTHERAPY, NLP, AND 3 PRINCIPLES PRACTITIONERS AND TRAINERS – IGH3P®
Registered Office
Northwest Regional Science Park
Bay Road
Derry, BT48 7TG
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Data Protection Officer: Ms Zita Bertha
ICO Registration Reference: ZB594553
Email: registrar@igh3p.com
IGH3P® is registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office as a fee-paying data controller.