About the Association
The Food Safety Professionals Association was set up in 2007 with the intention of bringing together the best independent food safety/hygiene professionals operating on the island of Ireland in an attempt to nurture and improve the standards of food safety advice and training available to the Hospitality, Catering, retail and Industrial sectors in Ireland...Read more ›
Types of Membership
There are three categories of members.
Full membership is limited to individuals whose main employment is in a capacity typically associated with educational and consulting activities and who can demonstrate a high level of competence in and knowledge of The Food Service and Hospitality Industry and Food Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail...Read more ›
Benefits of Membership
- Profile page on www.fspa.ie
- Access to the resources of the FSPA.
- Opportunity to network with peers.
- Continual professional development.
- Business referral between members.
- Social interaction between fellow professionals.
Cookie Policy
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The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
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| PHPSESSID | The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. (expires when you close your browser) | On visit | When you close your browser |
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| __utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | On visit | After 2 Years |
| __utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | On visit | After 30 Minutes |
| __utmc | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit | On visit | When you close your browser |
| __utmt | Used to throttle request rate. | On visit | 10 Minutes |
| __utmv | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | On visit | After 2 Years |
| __utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | On visit | After 6 Months |
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| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | On visit | After 2 Years |
| _gat | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | On visit | After 30 Minutes |
| _gid | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named | On visit | 1 minute |
| gwcc | This cookie allows Google to track any call conversions on mobile devices. For example if a customer is clicking a phone number on the contact us page to dial from their mobile device | On visit | After 3 Months |
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| loc | Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). | On visit | 13 Months |
| mus | Unclassified | On visit | 1 Year |
| ouid | Unclassified | On visit | 1 Year |
| uid | Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. | On visit | 1 Year |
| uvc | Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. | On visit | 13 Months |
| __atuvc | AddThis: The __atuvc cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users. | On visit | 1 Year |
| __atuvs | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. | On visit | 2 Years |
| Initiated by You Tube| Read More | |||
| CONSENT | YouTube (Google) stores the consent for using third party content in frames | On visit | When you close your browser |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | On visit | When you close your browser |
| PREF | This remembers a user’s Youtube preferences when watching videos on the website. Used for Youtube’s ‘recommended videos’ feature. | On visit | 243 days |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used to measure the speed of a user’s internet connection to ensure they are receiving a suitable quality when watching video on the website. | 243 days | |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | When you close your browser | |
| Initiated by Facebook | Read More | |||
| fr | This cookie is used by Facebook for advertising purposes | On visit | 90 days |
| datr | When you create or login to an account on Facebook cookies are stored on your computer in order for you to remain logged in when revisiting Facebook. The Facebook like button on our website is hosted by Facebook and your browser will send this cookie data to Facebook when creating the button inside your browser. This data is used by Facebook to associate the Facebook like button with your Facebook account. This data is not accessible to us, and is not sent to us by Facebook. More information can be found at Facebook’s privacy policy. | On visit | |
| locale | A Facebook cookie that identifies user’s language and country. | On visit | End of session |
| reg_ext_ref | Contains the external referrer URL from when the browser first visited Facebook | On visit | End of session |
| reg_fb_gate | Contains the first Facebook page that the web browser visited | On visit | End of session |
| reg_fb_ref | Contains the last Facebook page that the web browser visited | On visit | End of session |
| sb | Share on Facebook button | On visit | 2 years |
| wd | Share on Facebook button | On visit | 2 years |
| Initiated by Twitter | Read More | |||
| personalization_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | On visit | 2 years |
| tfw_exp | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | On visit | 14 Days |
| Initiated by Others | |||
| DotomiUser | Via a unique ID that is used for semantic content analysis, the user's navigation on the website is registered and linked to offline data from surveys and similar registrations to display targeted ads. | On visit | 1 Year |
| bkdc | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad network. | On visit | 179 days |
| bku | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad network. | On visit | 179 days |
| dtm_test | Via a unique ID that is used for semantic content analysis, the user's navigation on the website is registered and linked to offline data from surveys and similar registrations to display targeted ads. | On visit | 1 Year |
| woocommerce_cart_hash woocommerce_items_in_cart wp_woocommerce_session_ |
To keep track of cart data, WooCommerce makes use of 3 cookies: The first two cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. The final cookie (wp_woocommerce_session_) contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies. | ||
| cf-cookie-banner | Used for many WordPress functions and for plugins to work as required. | On visit | End of session |
| 1P_JAR | Used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates. | On visit | 1 week |
| CONSENT | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. | On visit | 1 Year |
| NID | These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing the pages with Google maps on them. | On visit | 1 Year |
| lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website | On visit | End of session |
| Initiated by GOOGLE | Read More | |||
| 1P_JAR | Used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates. | On visit | 1 week |
| APISID | This cookie is used by YouTube as part of their embedded functions on other websites | On visit | 2 Years |
| CONSENT | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. | On visit | 1 Year |
| HSID | ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | On visit | 2 Years |
| NID | These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing the pages with Google maps on them. | On visit | 1 Year |
| OTZ | Google analytics cookie used for website traffic info | On visit | 1 Month |
| SAPISID | enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube | On visit | 2 Years |
| SID | ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | On visit | End of session |
| SIDCC | Security cookie to protect users data from unauthorised access | On visit | |
| SSID | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website | On visit | End of session |
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| PMC | The home page of this website contains a third party trip advisor plugin. You can find out more about these third party cookies from TripAdvisor. | ||
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