Privacy and Cookie Policy

The Department of Justice and Equality is committed to protecting the rights and privacy of all individuals in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, 2016/679 (GDPR), as given further effect in Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

The department’s data protection policy sets out how this department secures and manages personal data in accordance with the principles of GDPR.

The policy also explains how you can request access to your personal data.

The Data Protection Officer for the Department of Justice and Equality is Ms Eileen Tully.

Data protection queries should be forwarded to dataprotectioncompliance@justice.ie

This privacy statement explains how the department collects and uses information about you, based on your visits to this website.

You also have a right to obtain information about you kept by this department. This is explained in our data protection policy.

This department does not collect any personal information about you on this website, apart from the information which you volunteer by sending us an email or completing our online feedback form.

Your personal information, submitted in this way, will be collected, used and stored to respond to your request or otherwise address the subject matter of your mail. It may also be used to compile statistics.

Your personal information will not be used for any other purpose and will not be released to any third party.

A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. It may allow a website to “remember” your actions or preferences over a period of time, or it may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site.

Cookies can be set by the owner of the website or in some cases by third party services the website owner allows to present other information, run content or provide other functionality such as analytics.

Further information on cookies can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm.

When you first visit this website, you will see a message informing you about cookies. If you click the ‘Hide this message” button, a cookie will be set that records your preference.

Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the “managing cookies in your browser” section below.

Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers' instructions on how you can do this.

Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use ("third party cookies"), or those from specific websites.

Below are links to several of the more popular browsers for procedures on how to view and disable cookies:

• Google Chrome browser
• Microsoft Internet Explorer browser
• Mozilla Firefox browser
• Apple Safari browser
• Opera Web browser