Cookie policy
Cookie Policy
This cookie policy was last reviewed: May 2026
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) (“us”, “we” or “our”) uses ‘cookies’ to help us remember certain information about your visits to our website www.ccpc.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.
What are cookies?
Cookies are usually small text files stored on a device, such as a personal computer (PC), a mobile device or any other device that can store information.
Some cookies are essential for our website to work. If they are disabled, the site won't work in some basic ways. These are called strictly necessary cookies.
Other cookies are not essential, but we use them to help make our site better or more enjoyable for you, e.g. by allowing you to use features like Vimeo or allowing us to collect information about how people use our website or help us track website traffic from our online advertising campaigns. These are called functional, targeting and performance cookies.
By law, we are allowed to use strictly necessary cookies as long as we tell you about them. However, we need your consent before we use any other type of cookie.
Consent and cookies
First time visitors to ccpc.ie will get a banner allowing them to select which (if any) cookies they would like to consent to (Accept all, Decline all, Manage preferences). 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. Accepting all cookies, makes all cookies active. You can modify your cookie preferences for the Website at any time by clicking on the “Manage Cookie” button below.
Manage cookies
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.
This website uses cookies that are necessary to make the website work (explained in the table below). You can also choose to set other optional cookies, if you consent to use cookies that consent will last for 6 months from the date that you last provide your consent to us. We will ask you to re-confirm your cookie choices again after 6 months.
Usage of Google Analytics
Our Website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), to help us understand how visitors use our Website. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies and similar technologies to collect information about how the Website is used. A First Party Cookie is one where the host name of the cookie is the same as the domain name of the website being visited. First party cookies cannot normally be used to track activity across different websites. These cookies are only set where you have provided consent through our cookie settings.
For users in the European Union, Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses. IP addresses are used only momentarily to determine general location (such as country or city level) and are then discarded. Analytics data for EU users is collected and initially processed on servers located within the European Union. In some circumstances, data may be transferred outside the EU, including to the United States.
Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate use of the Website, compile reports on Website activity, and provide related services. Google may disclose this information where required by law or where third parties process data on Google’s behalf.
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies on this website using ‘Manage Cookies' in the footer, or more generally by using this tool: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
See also “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps”: google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
More information
You can find more information about cookies by visiting the following information websites:
Changes to our Cookie Policy
We can change this Cookie Policy at any time. The most up to date version of our Cookie Policy will always be available on the Website.
