Cookies
Family Carers Ireland Cookies Policy
Purpose
Family Carers Ireland is committed to continuously enhancing its IT Systems. As a result, our policies and procedures are subject to regular change.
This policy defines use and control of Family Carers Ireland Website Cookies.
This policy is mandatory, by using the Family Carers Ireland official website, users are automatically accepting the terms of this policy.
As Family Carers Ireland is a national organisation, this policy represents Family Carers Ireland’s national position.
All exceptions to this policy must be authorised by the Head Corporate Services. Exception requests must be submitted by email to the IT & Facilities department ithelpdesk@familycarers.ie.
Legislation and Best Practices
The policy aims to:
- meet the legal requirements of the regulated activities that Family Carers Ireland is registered to provide under the following:
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- The ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) - the EU law governing privacy in electronic communications, including marketing, data retention, and the use of cookies. It operates alongside the GDPR, providing more specific rules for digital tracking and consent.
Process/Procedure
What are cookies?
Family Carers Ireland’s website uses cookies. Cookies are small files that our website or our service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow it) that enables the sites or service providers’ systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain anonymous information.
Family Carers Ireland’s website uses the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies make our website work and cannot be switched off in our systems. These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features.
- Functional Cookies allow our website to remember the choices you’ve made in order to enhance your user experience
- Analytics / Performance Cookies are used to track visitor behaviour on our website. They are essential in measuring the performance of the site and to make sure that the website works as it should for users. This information is completely anonymized and cannot be used to identify you
- Statistics Cookies used to gather statistical data on how our website is performing to help make improvements.
For more information on our Website Cookies please visit our website at https://www.familycarers.ie/cookies/manage and click on the manage cookies link at the bottom of the page.
Family Carers Ireland’s website have included content from Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn to promote web pages (e.g. “like”) or share (e.g. “posts”) on social networks like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalised advertising.
Family Carers Ireland would advise all website users to read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) and to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. These social media companies are located outside of Ireland.
How do we use Cookies?
Family Carers Ireland use cookies to compile anonymous data about our site traffic and site interaction so that Family Carers Ireland can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
Family Carers Ireland’s website uses Google Analytics to gather anonymous statistics, including the number of visitors it has, the pages viewed per session, time exposed to particular pages etc.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. The following link provides instructions on how to turn off cookies in your browser:
https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-and-delete-cookies
Please note if you turn your cookies off, some of the Family Carers Ireland services may not function properly.
Family Carers Ireland’s website use pTools Cookie Control to allow our website users to control what cookies are allowed.
Managing Cookies
Cookies help Family Carers Ireland to ensure that our website is as good as it can be for our users. Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer. Cookies pose little threat to your privacy, but some people may want to turn them off anyway.
More information, about cookies and how to manage them is available at www.aboutcookies.org.
Further Information
For any other questions about Family Carers Ireland’s Cookie Policy, please contact us at the following contact details:
IT & Facilities Manager
Family Carers Ireland
Market Square, Tullamore, Co Offaly, R35 PW50, Ireland
Email: itsupport@familycarers.ie
Phone number: +353 57 9370222
Support
- All issues with Family Carers Ireland Cookies should be reported via email to ithelpdesk@familycarers.ie.
Enforcement
- Family Carers Ireland reserves the right to take such action as it deems appropriate against users who breach the conditions of this policy.
- Family Carers Ireland will forward information on any use of its Website for illegal activities to An Garda Síochána.
Review and Evaluation
This policy will be reviewed no less frequently than every one year. An earlier review will be carried in the event of any relevant changes in legislation, national or local policy/guidance, organisational change or other circumstances which mean the policy needs to be reviewed.