Cookie policies are changing over time and this policy will be updated as required, meaning that notices and consent requirements may change and your experience using the website will change.
Cookies are used on our website to enhance the experience of visitors, to provide marketing and statistical information on users and site traffic, while some are necessary for the basic functioning of the site and some are discretionary.
Cookies are categorised in the following way:
Necessary:
These cookies are essential to enable you to browse around our website and use the features. Without these cookies we cannot offer you some of our services.
Statistics:
These cookies collect information on how you use our website, for example, what pages you open. The data from the cookies may be used to help optimize the website and make it easier for you to use.
We do not have affiliates and you cannot buy any services or products though the site.
These cookies do not identify you, all they do is collect aggregated information where individuals are anonymous.
Marketing:
These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make while browsing. They may store information on geographic area and preferences. The information collected is not used identify you and cannot track your browsing history or activity online.
We do not allow third parties to use information from our website.
We use the following cookies:
Cookie | Purpose | Category |
CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | Necessary |
You can accept or reject our cookies by clicking “Change your consent” in the website footer.
The GDPR requires a website to only collect personal data from users after they have provided their explicit consent to the specific purposes of its use with a user action (ticking a box, adjusting a slider etc).
This is why you have to make a selection on cookies when you first use the site.
Websites must comply with the following GDPR cookie consent requirements:
• Prior and explicit consent must be obtained before any use of cookies (apart from whitelisted or necessary cookies).
• There are two cookie types deemed to be excluded from consent requirements. These are the “communication exemption” and “strictly necessary exemption”.
It is at the data controller’s discretion to identify what cookies may be deemed to be within the above categories.
Our cookie policy included the following that are excluded from consent requirements due to communication exemption:
The following are strictly necessary:
CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | Necessary |
• Consents must be granular, i.e. users must be given the choice to enable some cookies rather than others. It must not be a “zero sum“/ all or nothing option.
• Consent must be freely given
• Consents must be as easily withdrawn if the user so wishes.
• Consents must be securely stored as legal documentation.
• Consent must be renewed/reconfirmed by the user every six months.
Your Rights in connection with your personal data are to:
You have a right to complain to the Data protection Commissioner (DPC) in respect of any processing of your data by:
Telephone +353 57 8684800 +353(0)761 104 800 Postal Address:
Lo Call Number 1890 252 231 Data Protection Commissioner
E-Mail info@dataprotection.ie Canal House Station Road
Portarlington R32 AP23 Co. Laois
**Please note that the above rights are not always absolute and there may be some limitations.
You are free to submit a Subject Access Request to the Credit Union free of charge and within 30 days you will receive the copies of your personal data which the Credit Union process and information such as the source of your data, retention periods and who your data has been shared with; there is no charge for such a request.
Reviewed September 2020