Ireland State Savings Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes the different types of cookies and similar technologies that may be applied on the Ireland State Savings website.
For information regarding how Ireland State Savings processes personal information, please refer to the Ireland State Savings Data Protection Notice and detailed Ireland State Savings Data Protection Statement which is found on the Ireland State Savings website.
We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the website.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a site to recognise a user’s device.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently remembering your preferences, and generally improve your website experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’). Ireland State Savings does not control the processing practices of those third parties so you should review their specific cookies and privacy policies and your own browser settings and user profiles with those third parties before agreeing to their use.
Ireland State Savings Cookies
Ireland State Savings uses first party and third party cookies. We use cookies in order to make this website easier to use, to support the provision of information and functionality to you, as well as to provide us with information about how this website is used so that we can make sure it is as up to date, relevant and error free as we can.
For further information about the types of cookies that are used on this website please see Cookies We Use.
Further information about the types of cookies used on our sites is set out below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features and/or services and allow us to track our critical web business indicators. Any cookies used in this way are first party only in nature and are fully aggregated Without these absolutely necessary cookies, the website will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the website or certain services or features. In regard to our mobile apps, these technologies are necessary for our apps to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your device to block or alert you about these technologies, but some parts of the app may not then work.
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. They also allow us to test design and website functionality for improved user experience. Performance Cookies are used to improve how a website works and Google Analytics uses online identifiers and may constitute personal data. The legal basis for the processing of data in this instance is consent.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow this website to remember choices you make and any customisations you make to website pages during your visit and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, these cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video, using the Chat feature or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. More information about such cookies can be found in the relevant third party website. The legal basis for the processing of data in this instance is consent.
Advertising & Marketing Cookies (EEA)
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising software partners. We may use advertising cookies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertising on other sites. If you do not allow them, you will experience less targeted advertising, and limit our ability to improve the website for you. All data will be kept within the EEA. The legal basis for the processing of data in this instance is consent.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the website. For example we use these cookies to enable you view video content from YouTube. They are capable of tracking your browser across other websites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see our video content. The legal basis for the processing of data in this instance is consent.
Managing your Preferences
The Ireland State Savings website enables you to manage your cookie preferences at any time via the Privacy Preference Centre.
To manage your cookie preferences:
Select the cookie icon on the bottom of the webpage to open the Privacy Preference Centre.
In the ‘Manage Consent Preferences’ section choose to accept or reject the different types of cookies.
Select ‘Confirm My Choices’ to set your preferences.
International Transfers of Personal Data
Personal Data may be transferred outside of Ireland where necessary to provide our services to you, including for example where you instruct a transfer from one of your accounts to an account outside Ireland, in accordance with your instructions, where you have explicitly consented, and / or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
Many of the countries will be within the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), or will be ones which the European Commission has approved, and will have data protection laws which are the same as or broadly equivalent to those in Ireland.
However, some transfers may be to countries which do not have equivalent protections, and in that case An Post shall use reasonable efforts to implement contractual protections for your Personal Data. While this will not always be possible where we are required to transfer your Personal Data in order to comply with and perform our agreement(s) with you or where we have a legal obligation to do so, any transfers will be done in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including through the implementation of appropriate or suitable safeguards in accordance with such applicable data protection laws.
Below we set out the names of the cookies that create international transfers, the destination countries and the safeguards used.
Vendor: Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
Cookie Name(s): _ga, _ga_xxxxxxxxxx
Purpose: Analytics, Cross-Device Tracking.
Destination: United States (with initial processing and automatic IP anonymization in the EU).
International Transfer: Yes.
Safeguard: EU-US Data Privacy Framework (Adequacy Decision).
Lawful Basis: Explicit User Consent.
Your Legal Rights
For Updating and correcting your Personal Data
If we hold incorrect Personal Data about you, you have the right to have the data amended. While we will use reasonable efforts to keep your Personal Data up to date, you will need to notify us without delay in the event of any change in your personal circumstances, so that we can keep the Personal Data up to date.
There can be no changes made to any personal data provided for the purpose of posting an item after the item has been posted
You can update your Personal Data by writing to the Data Privacy Office, An Post, Exo Building, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 W5Y2; together with:
Your name and address; and
A description of the specific Personal Data you wish to have rectified.
Right of Erasure
You have the right in some circumstances to have your Personal Data, which we hold, erased by writing to the Data Privacy Office, An Post, Exo Building, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 W5Y2;or privacyoffice@anpost.ie together with:
Your name and address; and
A description of the specific Personal Data you wish to have erased.
If you request an erasure of your Personal Data, all your data will be erased subject to the following important notice.
We will not be required to erase your Personal Data where to do so would prevent us from meeting our respective contractual obligations, or where we are required to process (including retaining) your Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, or if the Personal Data is necessary to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings.
Right of Access
You have a right to be given a copy of your Personal Data on request, subject to certain exceptions. Please note that we have the right to require that you identify yourself before we will respond to any access request.
For more information, see our Data Access Policy https://www.anpost.com/Privacy/Access-Request-Policy.
Your Other Rights
You also have the right, in certain circumstances, to request restriction on the use, of your Personal Data, and to object to certain uses of your Personal Data, in each case subject to the restrictions set out in applicable data protection laws. Further information on these rights, and the circumstances in which they may arise in connection with our processing of your Personal Data can be obtained by writing to the Data Privacy Office, An Post, Exo Building, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 W5Y2low.
In any case where we rely on your consent to process your Personal Data, you have the right to change your mind and withdraw consent by writing to the Data Privacy Office, An Post, Exo Building, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 W5Y2.
Where we rely on a legitimate purpose of ours or of a third party recipient of the Personal Data, in order to use and disclose Personal Data, you are entitled to object to such use or disclosure of your Personal Data, and if you do so, we will cease to use and process your Personal Data for that purpose, unless we can show there are compelling legitimate reasons for us to continue or we need to use the Personal Data for the purposes of legal claims.
In limited circumstances, you may also have the right to data portability in respect of certain of your Personal Data, which means you can request that we provide it to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or transmit it to your third party nominee where this is technically feasible.
You have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing of your Personal Data with the Data Protection Commission at www.dataprotection.ie.
Further Information
If you would like to find out more about advertising networks and affiliate programmes and how cookies are used for these purposes, please visit https://www.youronlinechoices.com. This is an information portal which is run by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for digital advertising, and will provide you with all the information you need about online behavioural advertising and the choices available to you.
For further information about Google Analytics please see Safeguarding your data.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you would like further information about the cookies used in relation to YouTube videos, the YouTube privacy notice, including details about YouTube related cookies, is available at: https://www.google.co.uk/policies/privacy/.
Glossary of technical terms used
IP address: The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in “internet protocol” code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.
personal data: information about you by which you can be identified, which is in the possession of Ireland State Savings (e.g. your name and address)
web browser: The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari.