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This website is maintained by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on behalf of government departments. The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission.
Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated securely and confidentially in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer, when providing feedback or subscribing to be notified about a consultation for example.
Any information you provide in this way is used only for its specified purpose. For other types of information collected relating to website visitors see below.
We may collect the following information from each user of this site:
We use this information to analyse the usage patterns of the website in order to improve the website’s effectiveness. We will neither make attempts to identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above with any individual.
It is our policy never to disclose such information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless explicitly stated (see Google Analytics section below), or obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing activities on the website, or a unique identifier so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Cookies on gov.ie do not contain personal information from which you can be identified.
Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the ‘Help’ menu on your browser. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.
The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform uses cookies to anonymously gather user statistics and protect against malicious attack.
When you first visit this website the csrftoken cookie is set. This is a first-party cookie.
The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform has introduced Google Analytics to assist us in the functioning of this website. This service helps us to provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. We use IP Anonymisation in Google Analytics. This is the only third-party cookie used on gov.ie.
The following google analytics cookies are only set if you select 'allow all' on the cookie information banner or if you choose to set preferences and enable the analytical cookies preferences:
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We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for website traffic analysis, employing cookieless, anonymized tracking to gather insights. This method is only implemented when cookies are not accepted and ensures that no personally identifiable information (PII) is collected. The information gathered helps us improve our website and user experience.
To better understand site usage while respecting user privacy, we have introduced Matomo Analytics, a self-hosted analytics solution. Matomo operates without setting cookies and utilizes cookieless tracking to gather anonymous data on user behaviour. No personally identifiable information is stored or tracked in relation to your browsing activities on our website.
If you are concerned about how personal data is processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention. To do so, you can contact the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform's Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@per.gov.ie
For the organisations using the FormsIE service this privacy statement is designed to inform you about the information that can be collected and how it will be used.
The FormsIE platform facilitates the creation of data collection web forms on behalf of public service organisations by OGCIO. FormsIE by their nature are a data collection interface and do not store data themselves.
Note: When you use a FormsIE Service, the following personal information may be collected:
The purpose of this service is to provide a simple, secure, easy to use platform for organisations to provide a mechanism to collect data for public services in order to streamline their data collection and service provision.
The information you provide may be used for the following purposes:
The legal basis for data processing is governed by the data controllers' responsibility to collect data for the provision of public services, as well as their legitimate interests. The applicable legislation in each case should be set out by that data controller. Data subjects should be notified about the purpose of data collection in their service provision, please see relevant site for more information. As noted above, OGCIO does not store data themselves.
Web Browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Opera.
IP Address
The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in internet protocol code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.