Cookies Policy


IMDO Cookies Policy
By continuing to use the Irish Maritime Development Office site you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy, which falls under the policies of the Marine Institute.
Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.

How does the Irish Maritime Development Office as part of the Marine Institute use cookies?

The Irish Maritime Development Office uses cookies to collect information about visitors' use of the Site, including information such as connection speed, operating system details, the time and duration of visits and IP addresses. The information collected by cookies enables the Irish Maritime Development Office to understand the use of the Site, including language preferences, bookmarks, number of visitors, pages viewed per session, time exposed to particular pages etc. This in turn helps to provide visitors with a better experience. The Irish Maritime Development Office as part of the Marine Institute will not attempt to personally identify visitors from their IP addresses.

The Irish Maritime Development Office as part of the Marine Institute uses three types of cookies as follows:

Language Preference: We use cookies to store your language preference when you use the language specific link on the site.
Bookmarks: We use cookies to store your 'My Links' bookmarks
Analytics: Google Analytics uses 1st party cookies to anonymously and in aggregate report on visits to the  Irish Maritime Development Office website.

Visit the Google Analytics website for more information on how Google Analytics uses cookies.

Visitors can use most of this site with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser. The above information applies to how the Irish Maritime Development Office as part of the Marine Institute uses cookies on the Irish Maritime Development Office website.

Turning off Cookies

Most modern browsers allow the user the option to turn off or change cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful; otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.

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