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Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 05-Mar-2024
Last Updated: 05-Mar-2024

What is a Cookie?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

Further information on cookies can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

Consent

Upon entering our website, users have the choice to decide which cookies they wish to consent to (or not), through a banner that appears at the bottom of the page. The choices one makes can be altered at any future stage by visiting the “fingerprint” floating button on the homepage.

Waterford City & County Council uses an SaaS provider, (Cookie First) to manage our cookie process.

How can I "switch off" cookies ?

On the cookie banner on the homepage of this website, you can choose to opt out of all but the necessary cookies.
You can choose the “Deny” optional on the cookie banner and the Performance and Functional cookies will not set.

However, if you block the cookies, it is possible that all the technical features of our website will not work properly.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What cookies are used on this site?

Our cookies are broken down into 3 categories, “Necessary”, “Performance” and “Functional” and can be seen on the Cookie Banner preference section.

We also use Matomo Analytics on our website for statistics purposes.

Manage cookie preferences

Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&redirectlocale=en-US

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

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