Cookie Policy​

Cookie Policy

The www.fisherieslocalactiongroups.ie website (the “Website”) is operated by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (“BIM”, “we”, “us”, “our”).  At BIM, we are committed to protecting your personal data in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the EU ePrivacy Directive. This Cookie Notice works alongside our [Privacy Notice] (https://fisherieslocalactiongroups.ie/privacy-policy/) to explain what cookies are, why we use them, and the legal basis for processing data collected through cookies.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (such as a computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. They help websites recognise your device, remember your preferences, and improve your browsing experience. Most browsers support cookies, but you can set your preferences to decline or delete them at any time. For more information on how to remove cookies on a wide variety of browsers, visit About Cookies (https://www.aboutcookies.org/).

Please Note: Restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our website and alter your experience.

We use cookies to ensure our website functions properly and to gather insights that help us enhance our services. Where cookies are not strictly necessary, you will have the option to opt out. We do not use cookies to track your activity beyond our website, and any data collected is processed only as described in this policy and never shared with third parties for unrelated commercial purposes.

How do we use cookies?

A visit to our website may generate “first-party” cookies and “third-party” cookies. First-party cookies are small files set by our website. They help us remember your preferences, keep you signed in, and make your visit efficient which is essential to the core of our website. Third-party cookies are set by external services or domains, not by our website directly. These are typically used for advertising, enabling social media features and enhanced site functionality such as embedded video content. We must ask for your permission to use non-essential third-party cookies.

We use the following cookies and similar technologies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and online tools or services. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into private areas of our website.
• Performance/Statistics cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. We have configured our analytics solution to preserve our visitor’s privacy, such as anonymising IP addresses. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies create a profile based on your interests to display relevant advertisements on various websites. Typically, they are third-party cookies and monitor your activity across different domains.
• Functional cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences, for example your username, language, or text size. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

The tables below explain the cookies we use and why we use them.