Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on the Platform, your choices regarding their use, and the legal framework governing their deployment.
Table of Contents
1. Legal Framework and Scope
This Cookie Policy is adopted in accordance with Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC, as amended (the "ePrivacy Directive"), as transposed into Irish law by Regulation 5 of the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 336/2011), and is to be read in conjunction with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR").
2. Categories of Cookies Used
The Platform may use the following categories of cookies:
2.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies are always deployed such as session management, load balancing, CSRF, 2FA, to enable secure login, maintain authenticated sessions, distribute server traffic efficiently, prevent malicious cross-site request forgery attacks, and support two-factor authentication security controls.
Cookie ID: cookieyes-consent
Domain: constituency.ie
Duration: 1 year
Description: CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users' consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors.
Script URL Pattern: cookieyes.com
2.2. Preference Cookies
Preference Cookies are used to remember user-selected settings, such as language preferences or accessibility configurations, in order to provide a more consistent user experience across sessions. Where such cookies are not technically necessary for the provision of the core service, they are activated only after the user has provided valid consent.
2.3. Analytics Cookies
Analytics Cookies are not required for core service functionality and are therefore deployed only following prior, freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent.
2.4. Marketing Technologies
Marketing Technologies are not activated unless the user has provided explicit prior consent. No behavioural advertising tracking is conducted without such consent.
3. Consent and User Controls
Non-essential cookies are deployed only after the user has provided freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent in accordance with existing laws. Users are presented with granular options to accept, reject, or customise cookie preferences on first visit. Consent may be withdrawn at any time through a persistent "Cookie Settings" interface, and withdrawal does not affect processing carried out prior to withdrawal.
4. Cookie Duration and Data Minimisation
Session cookies expire upon closure of the browser. Persistent cookies are retained only for the duration necessary to fulfil their declared purpose and, in any event, not longer than twenty-four months unless renewed by fresh consent.
5. Third-Party Technologies and International Access
Where cookies are deployed or supported by third-party service providers, including analytics or hosting providers, such providers are appointed under written agreements that require them to implement appropriate safeguards to protect personal data and to process such data only in accordance with applicable data protection law. Where cookie-related data is accessed from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), such access shall occur only where lawful safeguards are in place.