Cookie Policy

  1. Introduction
  2. Our  website, (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
  1. What are cookies?
  2. A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
  1. What are scripts?
  2. A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
  1. What is a web beacon?
  2. A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
  1. Cookies
  2. 5.1 Technical or functional cookies
  3. Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
    Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
  4. 5.2 Power Pages
  5. Power Pages use cookies to store information for various purposes. The following table describes the cookies that Power Pages uses, and their lifetime.
Cookie name Description Lifetime
__RequestVerificationToken Used by the antiforgery system. Session
.AspNet.ApplicationCookie Used to identify user sessions.
A user session starts when a user browses website for the first time.
And ends when the session is closed. Configure authentication can be used to change session expiry time span.		 Session
adxPreviewUnpublishedEntities Stores preview ON/OFF mode used in classic CMS system for website administrators. Session
adx-notification Used in basic form actions to store alert message to be shown on redirection. Session
ARRAffinity
ARRAffinitySameSite		 Added automatically by Azure websites and ensures that requests are load balanced between different sites.
Doesn't store any of user information.
You see either the ARRAffinity or ARRAffinitySameSite cookie depending on your browser.		 Session
ASP.NET_SessionId Used to maintain the session of a logged in user to avoid repeated sign-in. Session
ContextLanguageCode Stores the default language of the user accessing website within a session and across webpages.
The cookie is deleted after session closes.		 Session
Dynamics365PortalAnalytics Critical service cookie to analyze service usage anonymously and aggregated for statistical purpose. 90 days
isDSTObserved Stores a value to indicate if the current moment is in daylight saving time. Session
isDSTSupport Indicates whether a specified date and time falls in the range of daylight saving time. Session
timeZoneCode Stores the timezonecode field value of CRM timezonedefinition table for the current timezone. Session
timezoneoffset Stores the timezone difference between UTC and Local browser time. Session
PrivateModeLoginCookie Used to identify internal maker sessions when site is in private mode.
This cookie isn't dropped once site is made public.		 Session
OpenIdConnect.nonce.xxxxxx Used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. Session
AspNet.ExternalCookieUsed to identify user sessions in external sign in scenarios.Session




  1. Your rights with respect to personal data
  2. You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
    3. • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
    • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
    • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
    • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
    • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
    • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
  3. To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
  1. Contact Details
  2. For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
    The Custom House
    Memorial Road
    Dublin
    D01 W6X0
    Ireland
    Website: https://portal.heritage.gov.ie
    Email: data.protection@housing.gov.ie

Document Dated: April 2024