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This site uses 2 different types of cookie:
Session Cookies
Persistent Cookies
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The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner uses cookies when you visit our website. We have introduced Google Analytics to our pages in order to assist us in redeveloping our websites. Google analytics allows us to measure and learn in aggregate how our website is being used, and to see for example, which are the most popular pages. This will help us ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. We also use a number of session cookies and a persistent cookie to record your acknowledgement of our cookie usage.
Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, (âGoogleâ). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Googleâs official documentation.
Personal Data processed: browser information, city, device information, latitude (of city), longitude (of city), number of Users, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
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Google Analytics Cookies used on this site
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Cookie Name |
Expiration Time |
Description |
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish visitors to site |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish visitors to site |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate |
| __utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| _ _utma | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| _ _utmb | 30 mins from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| _ _ utmc | End of browser session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
| _ _utmz | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
The following cookies are used specifically on this site;
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Cookie Name |
Expiration Time |
Description |
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euCookie |
6 Months |
Records if you have clicked in the Cookie Notification and therefore does not display notification for 6 months. |
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PHPSESSID |
SESSION |
The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. On the Action website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. As the PHPSESSID cookie has no timed expiry, it disappears when the client is closed. |
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wordpress_test_cookie |
SESSION |
This is a test cookie, to see if cookies are enabled. |
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