Future Plan Ireland

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data, stored in a simple test file which is placed on your computer when you visit our site. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only allows a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites.

Tracking or Third Party Cookies

We record visits to our website and use browser cookies in order to monitor your progress through our site. Your personal data is not stored through cookies. We use this information to ensure that our website is performing at its best and that we are providing the best customer experience to make it more convientient for our customers. You can accept or block cookies through your browser settings.

The site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by a third party company (“Google”). Google Analytics installs cookies to analyze how the site is used. Google Analytics uses cookies to define user sessions, as well as to provide a number of key features in the Google Analytics reports. Google Analytics sets or updates cookies only to collect data required for the reports. Additionally, Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies. This means that all cookies set by Google Analytics for your domain send data only to the servers for your domain. This effectively makes Google Analytics cookies the personal property of your website domain, and the data cannot be altered or retrieved by any service on another domain.

The information generated by those cookies about your use our websites and your current IP-address will be transmitted by your browser to and will be stored by Google on servers in the United States and other countries. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. The IP address collected through Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may choose to disable or block the Google cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our websites. You may download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available on the Google website.

Manage Cookies

Users can set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. If you set your computer not to receive cookies, this will mean that some websites will not function and certain personalised features cannot be provided to you.

You can block any cookies from any website through your browser settings. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences or for more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit www.allaboutcookies.org (this is an external website with whom we have no affiliation or responsibility for content).