Privacy

Use of cookies

This cookie statement covers the revenue.ie and ros.ie websites. 

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are downloaded and saved to your computer or device when you visit a website. Your web browser (such as Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari) then sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit it again to remember things like your preferences. Cookies are sometimes sent to another website that uses them to record the user’s online activity.

This website uses different types of cookies. Some are set directly by us to remember your preferences and are explained below.

We also use cookies that are set by third parties for user feedback and permission to view YouTube videos, as explained below. Setting these types of cookies requires your permission. 

Your choices on cookies

This website uses cookies that are necessary to make the website work. They are explained in the table below.

You can also choose to set other optional cookies in the table below. When you set your cookie choices, a cookie will be saved on your device to remember your choices. You can change your choices for any cookies at any time by returning to this Cookie Statement page. We’ll also ask you to re-confirm your cookie choices regularly, based on the expiry dates shown.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow you to control your cookie choices through the browser settings. We’ve provided links to the most popular browsers’ instructions below. If you use your browser settings to disable the cookies that are necessary to make this website work, it may affect how this website functions for you.

You can also use the browsers’ instructions to delete cookies that were previously set on your device.

Cookies that are used on this website

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  Necessary cookies Revenue

These are cookies that are needed so that the basic functions of this website work. You can block or delete these cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may affect how this website functions for you.

 
ASP.NET_SessionId Revenue

This cookie maintains an anonymised user session by the server. It stores a session’s status in between http requests, enabling better performance. Content is encrypted and only held during your browsing session. Therefore, once you close out of this website, no information is held, and the cookie is deleted from your device.

Session
AWSALB Revenue

Ensures all requests from the user during the session are sent to the same target server out of multiple servers behind the load balancer. This feature helps maintain state information to provide a continuous experience to clients, and does not collect any personal or tracking information.

 7 days
 AWSALBCORS  Revenue

Ensures that the stickiness is enabled with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests, which means data transfer between browsers and servers is allowed. This feature helps maintain state information to provide a continuous experience to clients, and does not collect any personal or tracking information.

 7 days

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  Preference cookies Revenue

Also known as “Functionality cookies”, these cookies allow a website to remember the choices you have made; for example, either On or Off for Qualtrics feedback and YouTube cookies, or Opt-out for analytics statistics. This avoids the need to ask you about your choices on every web page.

 

You can block or delete these cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may affect how this website functions for you.

 
cookie-opt-qualtrics Revenue

This cookie is set when you save your cookie preferences to allow or not allow Qualtrics feedback cookies to be saved to your device.

Session

  cookie-opt-youtube Revenue

This cookie is set when you save your cookie preferences to allow or not allow YouTube cookies to be saved to your device.

Session

  mtm_consent_removed Revenue

This cookie is only set if you opt out of your anonymised website activity being used by Revenue for statistical purposes via Matomo software.

12 months

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Survey cookies

 

 

 

Qualtrics

These cookies allow us to collect your feedback about our website. They are set by a third-party service provided by Qualtrics which collects information of the page you are providing feedback from. These cookies are required so that we know the web page to which your feedback refers. For more information please refer to Qualtrics.

 
QSI_HistorySession Qualtrics

This cookie identifies which page(s) a user has visited during their session to provide information on the page to which the user’s feedback refers.

Session
_cfdruid Qualtrics

This is a cookie that will trigger when a user is leaving feedback to detect malicious visitors and block illegitimate users for security reasons.

Session

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YouTube cookies

 

 

Google

 

Revenue has provided embedded videos on this website from Revenue's official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. Once you accept cookies and save your choice in a browsing session, YouTube may set cookies and local storage data on your browser.

 

In order to view videos on revenue.ie, you will need to review and accept YouTube cookies. For more information please refer to YouTube's embedding video information page.

 

Expiration times on the cookies and local storage data listed below are set by YouTube, but will not be stored on your browser unless you accept and save the initial cookie preference. Some of the cookies and local storage data set by YouTube may have persistent IDs that track your behaviour over time.

Please refer to YouTube's embedding video information page.

yt-remote-device-id,

yt-player-headers-readable,yt-player-bandaid-host, yt-remote-connected-devices, yt-player-bandwidth, yt-remote-session-app, yt-remote-cast-installed, yt-remote-session-name, yt-remote-fast-check-period

Google

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. This uses HTML Local Storage.

 
NID Google The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences.  
1P_JAR Google This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.  
DV Google This cookie is used for the purpose of targeted advertising.  
CONSENT Google This cookie is used for the purposes of capturing user's consent.  

Information on cookie settings for popular browsers

You can find out more about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers at these links:

This cookie policy forms part of Revenue's overall Privacy Statement.

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