Cookies

This cookie policy relates to www.agrifoodregulator.ie and any of its subdomains.

An Rialálaí Agraibhia (Agri-Food Regulator) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. You can opt out of all cookies on our website except those classed as strictly necessary.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They allow companies to customise functions of a website for users such as remembering a registered login and also to track movements within a website to see which pages are popular and allow a company to create a better website for its users.

Cookies are classified into the following categories:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

Preference cookies

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Statistics cookies

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

THE COOKIES WE USE

This website uses cookies to personalise content, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share anonymous information with our analytics partners about how our site is used. You can change your preferences at any time, on our Cookie Policy page. Select your preference by clicking one of the buttons below.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. We need your permission or all other types of cookies.

Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. You can find more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.

 

We use the following cookies:

Cookie Name

Purpose

Provider

Persistence

Category

_ga

tracks users movements

Google Analytics

1 year

Performance

_gaxxxxxxxxxx

tracks users movements

Google Analytics

1 year

Performance

Font awesome

Font tracker

Font Awesome

 

Functional

 

 

 

 

 

HOW TO BLOCK COOKIES

You 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.  You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to some common browsers and instructions.


Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Data Protection Notice (pdf 163Kb) .