Our use of cookies
Effective Date: 19th March 2025
Cookie List
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| wt_consent | 1 year | Used for remembering users’ consent preferences to be respected on subsequent site visits. It does not collect or store personal information about visitors to the site. |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | session | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly. |
Functional
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| wp-wpml_current_language | session | WordPress multilingual plugin sets this cookie to store the current language/language settings. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
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Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
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Others
Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet.
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Dublin City Council will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Dublin City Council nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
Dublin City Council uses cookies to allow accessibility options on the site to function correctly i.e. increasing/decreasing text size or changing the contrast. Cookies are also used to allow users of mobile phones to browse the mobile version of the site.
Dublin City Council Performance Cookies
Dublin City Council Performance cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of this site. We can assess, for example, which pages visitors go to most and least often, and if they get error messages from web pages or links. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. Dublin City Council Performance Cookies are only used to improve how this site works and are not shared with third parties. Allowing these cookies assists us with improving the performance of the site.
Further information about cookies
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an industry body that develops standards and guidelines to support online business processes. It has produced a series of web pages which explain how cookies work and how they can be managed. https://www.iab.net/
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser. The IAB site tells you how to remove cookies from your browser at https://www.iab.net/