COOKIE POLICY
This website (www.fod.ie) (“our Site” or “the Site”) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or internet-enabled device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive or internet-enabled device.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. These necessary cookies enable core functionality, such as security, network management and accessibility.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Analytical, performance and functional cookies are optional cookies. While they help us improve our Site and enhance your experience of it, we will not set optional cookies unless you enable them.
You may withdraw your consent to optional cookies at any time, and manage your cookie preferences, by clicking on the cookie icon which you will find in the left-bottom corner of our home page.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Cookie Type
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Purpose
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More information
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Strictly Necessary Cookies
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_ga
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This cookie is a Google Analytics persistent cookie which is used to distinguish unique users.
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Read Google’s Overview of privacy and safeguarding data
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Analytical Cookies
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_gid
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This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source wh1ere they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
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Read Google’s Overview of privacy and safeguarding data
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_gat
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This cookie is used to throttle request rate. These are third party cookies that are placed on your device to allow us to use the Google Analytics service. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.
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_gat_gtag_UA
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This cookie is to limit the number of requests made to the Google Analytics service, which helps to reduce server load and improve website performance. This cookie is used to throttle the request rate, which means it helps to control the amount of data that is sent to Google Analytics, ensuring that it does not overload the system with too much information at once.
The cookie is set by the Google Analytics script on the website and has a lifespan of one minute. It does not contain any personal information about the website visitor and is only used for analytical purposes to understand how visitors interact with the website. The cookie is part of the Google Analytics service, which provides website owners with insights into how their website is performing and how visitors are engaging with it.
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Google Analytics Cookie Use on Websites
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Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Google Analytics
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.
For instructions on how to manage and disable cookies, see the privacy and help documentation of your specific browser’s website. If you use more Devices and/or browsers you will need to disable cookies on each Device and on each browser separately.
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Except for strictly necessary cookies, all cookies will expire after 90 days.