Privacy

The CITIZEN-FIRST site fully respects the rights of its users to privacy. Information and contact details submitted via email on this website are not stored and are only used for the purposes of replying with and dealing with queries sent in this way. Information provided in this way is never made available to third parties, and is used by the Council only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. This information will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.

Collection and Use of Technical Information

This website does not use cookies, visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

For general web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, although certain statistical information is available to us via our Internet service provider. This information may include:

• the IP address of the server you are using
• the top level domain name from which you access the Internet (for example, .ie, .com, etc.)
• the type of web browser you are using
• the date and time you access our site
• the previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used

Some of this information is used to create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of visitors to our site, identify what pages are accessed most frequently. We use these statistics to help us make our site more user friendly. This information does not enable us to identify website visitors and is not given to third parties.