Privacy

This statement relates to the Houses of the Oireachtas Service’s privacy practices in connection with the Banking Inquiry website.

The Houses of the Oireachtas Service respects the rights of its users and does not, as a general rule, collect personal information of any kind.
For general web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, although certain statistical information is available to us via our Internet service provider. This information may include the logical address of the server you are using, the top level domain name from which you access the Internet (for example, .ie, .com, etc.), the type of browser you are using, the date and time you access our site and the Internet address used to link to our site. Some of this above information is used to create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of visitors to our site, identify what pages are accessed most frequently. We use these statistics to help us make our site more user friendly.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files that are sent to your computer, tablet or mobile phone from a website’s computer (server) and stored on your device’s hard drive. Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally and cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being set, or to turn off all cookies. You can set these preferences within your browser settings. However, each browser is different so check your browser’s Help menu to learn how to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that improve your experience.

You can visit www.allaboutcookies.org for details on how to delete or reject cookies and for further information on cookies generally. For information on the use of cookies in mobile phone browsers and for details on how to reject or delete such cookies, please refer to your handset manual.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. The Houses of the Oireachtas Service is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave this website and to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit which collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected on the Banking Inquiry website.

Last updated: 30/11/2014