Cookies

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What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that are place on to your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies can do a number of things, for example, remembering your preferences and counting the number of people looking at a website and are widely used to make websites work better. Most major websites use cookies.

How we use Cookies

ICC Belfast uses cookies to improve your experience on our site. The broader set of functions is:

Certain cookies are essential to the proper functioning of ICC Belfast systems and therefore don’t require your consent.
We use analytics cookies to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors. ICC Belfast uses a global provider for this analysis which means a limited amount of personal data will be transferred internationally.
Web visitors that accept all cookies or targeting cookies and visit some ICC Belfast sub sites permit the placement of third-party cookies. ICC Belfast engages with trusted third-party marketing companies to assist with the running of campaigns for ICC Belfast and its programmes and courses. These third-party cookies are listed in our cookie list.

How we scan and categorise cookies

CookiePro is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for website scanning & cookie consent. Using the CookiePro Consent Manager dashboard, you configure how you want CookiePro to work on your site.

We use CookiePro by OneTrust to scan our site for cookies and to give you the ability to manage your cookie preferences. By disallowing targeting cookies, you also deselect social media plug-ins. This will potentially result in YouTube and other social media content not being displayed and potentially result in blank space when you view the webpage.

Additionally, if you have already set your web browser settings to the highest level of privacy on your device directly, this will override any choices you make in our privacy preference centre.

What type of cookies are used on this website?

Strictly necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around the ICC Belfast website and secure areas of the website.  This category of cookies cannot be disabled as they are essential to the functioning of the system.  Essential cookies do not require seeking user consent/permission.

Analytics cookies

We use analytics cookies to help us understand how users engage with our website. They also allow us to see which features are most popular and make them better, and remove the features that nobody uses. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our website was performing and improve it without these cookies.

Information collected is only used to help us improve how our website works. We use 'analytics cookies' for recording things like:

the number of visitors to our website
the type of device used to access our website such as PC, mobile phone or tablet

These are considered non-essential cookies. 

Third party cookies

Some of the cookies used on our website are stored on your machine by third parties. We have no control over these cookies or how the third parties use them. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us, for example maps and analytics. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see the third party's individual privacy policy listed below.

Google Analytics

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. No personal details are recorded. The cookies collect information such as the number of visitors to the site and the pages they visited.

View Google Analytics privacy policy

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

YouTube

We embed videos from YouTube channel using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Find out more information about embedding videos on YouTube.

Read the YouTube (Google) privacy policy.

Google Maps

We use Google maps to show the locations of the Waterfront Hall and Ulster Hall.

Read the Google privacy policy.

Facebook pixel

We use Facebook pixels on our website, this information is stored by Facebook and not by us.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by Facebook, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy please read Facebook's privacy policy or read about Facebook's advertising privacy.

Facebook Pixel and Conversions API

We use two Meta (Facebook) tools to understand how our advertising performs and to improve how we reach audiences:

Facebook Pixel: a browser-based tool that places cookies (such as _fbp) to track visits and actions on our website.
Facebook Conversions API (CAPI): a server-side tool that securely sends certain website events (e.g. ticket purchases, newsletter sign-ups, form completions) directly from our server to Meta.

Types of data shared:

Hashed identifiers (such as your email address if you provide it during booking or sign-up)
Technical data (e.g. IP address, browser and device information)
Event data (e.g. purchase details, site interactions)

How your data is used: This information helps us measure the effectiveness of our campaigns and deliver more relevant advertising.

Your choices: You can opt out of Facebook Pixel and Conversions API tracking through our cookie consent tool. If you decline marketing cookies, we will also stop sending event data through the Conversions API.

Twitter pixel

We use the Twitter pixel on our website, this information is stored by Twitter and not by us. We sometimes use Twitter widgets on our websites, however this information is stored by Twitter and not by us.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by Twitter, as well as your rights in this respect and options for protecting your privacy please visit the following links:

More information If you have a query about our use of cookies, please email [email protected]. We may make changes to the way we use Cookies at any time without prior notice. Any changes we may make will be posted on this page, please check back to see any updates or changes.

Last updated: 08 September 2025