Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make website work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Information which we collect about you.

We use a combination of temporary and permanent cookies on this website to collect standard internet log information and details of our visitor’s behaviour patterns. This is so we can obtain statistics of the number of visits and the popular parts of the site. This way we can improve our web content and always be on trend with what our customers want. We don't use this information for anything other than our own analysis.
 

The cookies on this website are not used to identify you personally.

 

Managing or removing cookies

You can adjust/ change your cookies preference any time using cookies personalization option on our website.

Also, you can remove cookies by deleting them from your browser history (cache) when you leave the site. 

You can find more information about cookies, including how to control the use of these through your browser settings, at Allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

 

Cookies use on FINGAL.IE

Category

Name

Description

Lifespan

Strictly Necessary Cookies OptanonConsent This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. PERSISTENT
Strictly Necessary Cookies OptanonAlertBoxClosed This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust.  It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.  It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user.  The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. PERSISTENT
Strictly Necessary Cookies eupubconsent This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user's consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user's consent.  PERSISTENT
Strictly Necessary Cookies __cfduid This host is used by OneTrust for hosting the Cookie Consent tool script. It is used to manage cookies on websites. PERSISTENT

Strictly Necessary

__cfduid

This domain is owned by OneTrust, a privacy management software which helps organizations achieve compliance with global regulations.

PERSISTENT

Performance

JSESSIONID

This is a general-purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. It is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

SESSION

Performance

_ga

This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.

PERSISTENT

Performance

_gid

This cookie is responsible for tracking user behaviour (user journey) / use to group the user behaviour together for each user.

PERSISTENT

Performance

_gat_UA-625217-22

 

_gat_UA-625217-47

This cookie is responsible for tracking user behaviour (user journey) / use to group the user behaviour together.

PERSISTENT

Tableau

tableau_public_negotiated_locale

 

tableau_locale

 

On the website, there are embed interactive charts and graphics into the website. Cookies are used to allow the charts to function correctly and to monitor how the charts are being used.

SESSION

Targeting

lang

The cookie is associated with Twitter, the main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where Twitter acts as the third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. Twitter does not currently provide information on the use of specific cookies.

SESSION

YouTube

 

We embed videos from our official 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.

Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page

 

Functional Cookies __cfduid Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.     PERSISTENT
Functional Cookies _ga_3QV3RVYDQ7 Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. PERSISTENT
Functional Cookies _ga This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.  By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. PERSISTENT
Functional Cookies _gid This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google.  It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. PERSISTENT
Functional Cookies tableau_public_negotiated_locale On the website, there are embed interactive charts and graphics into the website. Cookies are used to allow the charts to function correctly and to monitor how the charts are being used.  SESSION
Functional Cookies tableau_locale On the website, there are embed interactive charts and graphics into the website. Cookies are used to allow the charts to function correctly and to monitor how the charts are being used.  SESSION
Google Analytics _gat_UA- This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. PERSISTENT

Third-party cookies

From our website you can be redirected to our partners websites: they are working on our behalf providing different services for users, but they are not owned by Fingal County Council. For transparency purposes, you can find below the links to their cookies policies. 

Consult Portal

Fingal Alerts

Webcast Council Meetings Online

Council Meetings

Planning Application Search

e-Recruitment 

ReciteMe

 

Updated 30th April 2021