Cookie policy
Privacy Statement
This website is maintained by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI). The GRAI 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.
Collection and use of personal information
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.
Information we routinely collect
We may collect the following information from each user of this site:
- Statistical information (IP address and hostname, web browser version, pages visited and so on)
- The previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used
What we use the information for
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.
Further information or to make a request:
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 GRAI at grai@justice.ie
Cookies:
What is a cookie?
This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We assume that you are happy to receive all the cookies that your browser settings allow. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies - These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Analytical / performance cookies - They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in this table:
Name | Expiry length | Use |
XSRF-TOKEN | Session | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
awsalb | Session | This is used to hold and manage session information and routing for the user. |
awsalbcors | Session | This is used to hold and manage session information and routing for the user. |
Google Analytics | ||
_ga | 2 years | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. |
_gid | 24 hours | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. |
_gat | 1 minute | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
gac | 90 days | Contains campaign-related information for the user. |
Microsoft Clarity | ||
_clck | 1 year | Used by Microsoft Clarity to track user interactions. |
_clckid | 1 year | Used by Microsoft Clarity to track user interactions. |
_clsk | Session | Used by Microsoft Clarity to store session information. |
_clskid | Session | Used by Microsoft Clarity to store session information. |
clsks | Session | Used by Microsoft Clarity to store session information. |
Other Cookies | ||
Accept Cookie | After 2 years | Stores the users acceptance of the cookie policy |
This website will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this, or any third party websites, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit the About cookies website, which contains comprehensive information about cookies and how to restrict or delete cookies on a wide variety of browsers.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the website.
This and our other websites use a number of suppliers who set cookies on our behalf in order to deliver the services that they are providing. We are constantly reviewing our use of cookies and, as such, this cookies policy will be regularly renewed to include up to date information about the cookies used by our suppliers. We would highly recommend that you check this page on a regular basis.