Cookies Policy

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the “CCPC“, “us”, “we” or “our”) uses ‘cookies’ to help us remember certain information about your visits to our website www.financialliteracy.ie (the “Website”) including, but not limited to, technical information about your visit, e.g. traffic data, location data, browser language, the previous website from which you reached us and the type of browser you use. Our Privacy Statement will apply to how we treat the information we collect through cookies.

This Cookie Policy and our Privacy Statement are provided to be transparent about our practices regarding the use of cookies and to allow you the opportunity to make an informed choice.

A cookie is usually a small text file that is stored on a device (e.g. your phone or your computer). Cookies have a number of different functions and they may, amongst other things, collect information, including personal information, about you. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of websites. For example, a cookie could allow our website to recognise your browser, while another could store your preferences and other information and let you navigate the website effectively.

Cookies can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Subject to obtaining your prior consent where required, we may place our cookies on your device via our website. We may also allow our business partners to place cookies on your device.

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Cookies set by us are called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts.

Any cookie that is not strictly necessary is not active by default and does not send information to the resource it is called from. We obtain your consent for cookies which are not strictly necessary. You can choose whether to accept cookies or not. Accepting all cookies, makes all cookies active. You can modify your cookie preferences for the website at any time by clicking on the “Manage Cookies” button below.

You can choose whether to accept cookies or not. This Cookie Policy and our Privacy Statement are provided to be transparent about our practices regarding the use of cookies and to allow you the opportunity to make an informed choice. Your browser may allow you to set how it handles cookies. You can manage cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to accept, refuse or delete cookies. If you use your browser setting to block all or some cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) all or some parts of the website may not work as intended or may not work at all without cookies.

We will use cookies to save your cookie preferences. If you give us consent to use cookies that consent will last for six months from the date that you last provide your consent to us. We will ask you for your consent again after six months the next time you use our website on the same device.

You can find more information about cookies by visiting the following information website:

Cookies and similar technologies – European Commission

We can change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.