Cookie Notice
Last Updated: 1 March 2024
This cookie notice (“Cookie Notice”) is intended to inform you how we use “cookies” and similar technologies on our website at www.dublinpublictransport.ie (“Website”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Notice. This Cookie Notice should also be read in conjunction with our Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies and similar technologies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website or mobile application. Cookies are used by us as part of our Website and they are also used by some of our third party partners.
For more details on cookies and similar technologies please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Notice we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.
CONSENT TO OUR USE OF COOKIES
By using the Website you acknowledge that we may store and access essential cookies on your computer or other device. Essential cookies are cookies which are essential for the operation of our Website.
Further, where you give permission, we may also store and access certain non-essential cookies on your computer or other device. These cookies are not essential to the operation of our Website but allow us to provide additional functionality or to gather additional information about your use of our Website. You are not obliged to give consent to our use of non-essential cookies and we will not place such cookies until you have given your consent.
If you wish to block or delete cookies, or you would like to withdraw consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you can find out how to do so below.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH COOKIES?
Essential Cookies
We use cookies where they are essential for the operation of the Website, for example to remember that you are signed in to the Website.
Session Cookies
We use cookies to allow the Website to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Website, which allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Website server.
Analytics Cookies
We use “analytics” cookies. These, along with other information, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people using the Website and which features of our Website are most popular.
We use this information to improve the Website. We do not generally store any information that you provide to us in a cookie.
Social Media
We use cookies to personalise your interaction with social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+. Such cookies recognise users of those social media sites when you view social media content on our Website. They also allow you to quickly share content across social media, through the use of simple ‘sharing’ buttons.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE ON OUR WEBSITE?
Google Analytics (Non-essential)
Google Analytics' cookies enable us to store information such as the time you visit our Website, whether you have visited before and the website that you visited prior to visiting our Website. For more information about Google Analytics please see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Squarespace (essential and non-essential)
Our website is built using Squarespace - this platform uses a variety of cookies which can be viewed here. Many of these are essential to the ensuring the site works as expected and keeping it secure (particularly where e-commerce is concerned).
Squarespace also uses Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our site. These cookies are non-essential.
For a full list of Squarespace cookies, please see https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REFUSE, BLOCK OR DELETE COOKIES?
In order to use some parts of our Website you will need to accept cookies. If you choose to withhold consent to our use of cookies, or you subsequently block or delete cookies, some aspects of our Website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our Website.
CAN YOU BLOCK COOKIES?
You can block the use of cookies altogether by activating the relevant settings in your browser. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.