Compliance
Geological Survey Ireland is a division of the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment (DCCAE). We therefore comply with our parent department’s policies around subjects such as Freedom of Information, Privacy and Data.
Learn more about DCCAE policies and how we comply with national legislation in order to ensure quality services.
http://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/about-us/compliance/Pages/default.aspx
Data Privacy Notice
The Geological Survey Ireland takes your privacy seriously and we are fully committed to keeping your information private.
Our Data Privacy Notice is provided to fulfil our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective from 25 May 2018, which requires greater accountability and transparency from organisations with regard to your personal information, and which gives you greater control over how we use it.
Our Data Privacy Notice explains how and when we collect personal data from and about you, why we do so and how we treat this information. It also explains your rights in relation to the collection of personal information and how you can exercise those rights.
We may change this Notice from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Notice.
Any questions regarding our Notice and our privacy practices should be sent by email to info@gsi.ie or by writing to GDPR Manager, Geological Survey Ireland, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 K7X4. Alternatively, you can telephone 01 678 2896.
Read our Data Privacy Notice
Cookie Information
A cookie is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device. It allows a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a length of time.
Further information on cookies can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
There are 2 different types of cookie:
- Session Cookies
- Persistent Cookies
Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are not stored on your computer or mobile device. These session cookies are erased when you close your browser, or after 20 minutes of inactivity.
Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site.
Managing Cookies
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. 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.
The following links provide instructions on how to do this for the most popular browsers:
First Party Cookies:
These cookies are issued by our own webserver and help the site to work the way you would expect it to work.
| Name | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Performance: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years. |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| PHPSESSID | SESSION | This is a cookie designed to store and identify your unique session ID on the website. It does not contain any personal information and usually looks something like 1234567890abcdef. PHPSESSID is deleted as soon as you close all browser windows. |
| aviaCookieConsent, aviaPrivacyRefuseCookiesHideBar, aviaPrivacyEssentialCookiesEnabled, aviaPrivacyGoogleTrackingDisabled, aviaPrivacyGoogleMapsDisabled, aviaPrivacyGoogleReCaptchaDisabled, aviaPrivacyGoogleWebfontsDisabled, aviaPrivacyVideoEmbedsDisabled, aviaPrivacyMustOptInSetting, aviaCookieSilentConsent | 1 month | Used to store cookie user preferences from frontend for services used on this website. |
Third Party Analytics Cookies:
This site uses Google Analytics to monitor the traffic coming to our site. It does not track personal information, but helps us to understand how users view the site. We also link our Google Adwords account to our Analytics account to better understand how our adwords are performing. The following cookies are deployed by Google to facilitate that.
Further details of the cookies used by Google Analytics are provided here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
For visitors who want to turn this feature off in their browser Google have developed a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on details can be viewed here:
| Name | Third Party | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSID | Browser session to 6 Months | ‘DSID are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. If you don’t want the ads you see to be coordinated across your devices, you can opt out of Ads Personalization using Ads Settings. | |
| IDE | Browser session to 6 Months | Google also use one or more cookies for advertising we serve across the web. One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites is named ‘IDE‘ and is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. | |
| 1P_JAR | 1 month | Google ad personalisation | |
| AID | 1 week | We also use cookies named ‘AID,‘ ‘DSID,’ and ‘TAID‘, which are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. If you don’t want the ads you see to be coordinated across your devices, you can opt out of Ads Personalization using Ads Settings. | |
| SAPISID SIDCC SSID APISID HSID | 2 Years | These cookies, provided by Google Inc., are used in conjunction with the Google+1 button to enable you to share information publicly, as part of your Google Profile. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en | |
| OGPC | 1 MONTH | Description: these cookies are used by Google to store preferences and user information each time they visit web pages containing geographical maps of Google Maps. | |
| SID | 2 Years | Google: We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. For example, we use cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | |
| NID, OTZ | 6 months | Advertising cookie by google | |
| _ga | 2 Years | Performance: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years | |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. | |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. | |
| DV | 2 Years | Security cookie to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. | |
| CONSENT | 1 year | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
Please note that Third Party cookies are subject to change and we will endeavour to monitor those cookies and update this notice as required.
This Cookie Policy Last Updated: Jan 2020
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