Cookie Policy

There are four different types of cookies that we may use on our website. Learn more about each type of cookie and why we use them below. 

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies enable you to navigate our websites and use its features. Without these cookies, we would be unable to provide certain features.

All information collected by strictly necessary cookies is aggregated and anonymous. These are session only cookies, which means they end when you close out of our site.

Using necessary cookies enables users to:

• login to their online account to view online bills
• pay bills securely online
• progress through a form

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you have made and provide an enhanced, more personal experience on our websites.

Using functionality cookies enables users to:

• watch and play videos
• add comments to a forum
• share content on our websites and on social networks

Performance cookies

Performance cookies help us improve our websites and online services. These cookies gather information about how our sites are used, including which pages visitors go to most often. These cookies are anonymous - they don't collect information that identifies a visitor.

They also allow us to test new pages and evaluate their effectiveness, making sure we deliver the most relevant information and improve your website experience.

Using performance cookies helps to:

• see statistics on website use and how people got to the site
• identify which pages visitors go to most often
• identify pages with errors

Advertising cookies

Advertising cookies are used to help compile web statistics on an advertising campaign. They can also be used to deliver more relevant advertisements. These cookies are anonymous - they don't collect information that identifies a visitor.

Using advertising cookies helps to:

• measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign
• limit the number of times you see an advertisement

A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been compiled by the internet advertising industry. This guide can be accessed on www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Inline/Poll surveys

What is it, and what does it do

Used to determine whether the survey has already been shown to the user. Used in two cases: 1) To prevent the survey being shown repeatedly to returning visitors; and 2) To allow the respondent to continue the survey from the last answered question re-entry.

Contains the information necessary to identify a respondent (primarily a respondent-ID which is a number, and a unique key which is a random sequence of letters).
For inline surveys only, turned off by default, can help remember and prevent repeat responses from same machine. Expiration configurable, default 90 days.

Privacy Intrusiveness Level

In its "preventing" mode it expires after a configurable number of days (configured by our client on a project-by-project basis). No expiry for "continue" mode. Low privacy impact.

Sample only (data collection outside Forsta Plus when sample is generated by Forsta Plus panel)

What is it, and what does it do

Provides the ability to continue a survey where left off after visiting a 3rd-party survey in between, when this 3rd-party survey does not support the conventional ways of redirecting (sending parameters in the URL back to the Forsta Plus interview).

Stores the information necessary to identify a respondent, the project-ID and how far in that survey the respondent has reached.

Privacy Intrusiveness Level

Browser-session-cookie (dies when browser closes). Low privacy impact.

Limited survey with login page

What is it, and what does it do

Used to maintain the user session after login.

Privacy Intrusiveness Level

Cookie is removed when its value is read on the server. Low privacy impact.

We use a strictly necessary (essential) cookie to support a short on-site survey (digital intercept) that may occasionally appear while you are browsing our website.

This cookie is used solely to:

• Prevent the same survey from being shown repeatedly within the same session or over a short period of days
• Control the timing of when the survey appears (e.g. delayed display after page load)
• Ensure a smooth and non-intrusive user experience

The cookie does not:

• Collect personally identifiable information
• Track users across websites
• Support advertising or marketing activities

We use strictly necessary cookies to enable a number of features on our website. These cookies cannot be switched off. In addition to this, we use the following cookies:

Functionality cookies

We use functionality cookies to make our webpages more effective. This helps us improve the user journey with added more interactive features.

The functionality cookies we use include:

• Add This

Performance cookies

We use a number of performance cookies to help us improve our website and user experience. Performance cookies track how users interact with our website including what pages are performing well, what browsers perform best, the average time a person spends on our website and more.

The performance cookies we use include:

• Google Analytics
• Qualaroo
• Siteimprove
• Youtube

If you don't want to receive cookies, you have the choice to disable them. Learn more about managing cookies used on our site through the link below. 

Managing cookies →

You can also disable cookies through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how. You can also find out how to do this for your particular browser by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Uisce Éireann will assume that you agree to the placement of cookies on your device unless you specifically choose not to receive our cookies. Once cookies are switched off, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would be with activated cookies. Strictly necessary cookies need to be kept on so you can use all of our features.

Uisce Éireann uses Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our websites. The cookies used by this product collect information in an anonymous form. If you wish to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.