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Cookies on this website

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PlanningApplication.ie uses cookies to enhance the user experience and protect against malicious attack.

What cookies do we use?

PlanningApplication.ie uses first party cookies that are necessary for the functionality of the site and 3rd party cookies to collect analytics.

Functionality Cookies

These Cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience when returning to pages requiring an acceptance of login such as your username, language, or the region you are in. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on another site.

Analytic Cookies

These Cookies collect data to help us understand how our visitors use the website. It tracks and analyses the behavior of users and this information is used to measure the activity of website, applications to make improvements based on analyzing data on how users use the service. Our website uses Google Analytics (“Google”).

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Changing you cookie settings

At any time you can come back and change your cookie settings in the settings widget at the bottom of this page. Analytics cookies can be turned on or off and will be deleted if the option is set to off. Functional cookies can not be removed as this would affect your user experience.

Functional Cookies

Cookie	Type	Description	Duration
laravel_session	Functional cookie	used for tracking the session. It tracks user data, such as logged in credentials	0 days
XSRF-TOKEN	Functional cookie	Used to stop cross-site postscripts, and to set a lifetime on a form for security.	0 days
cookie_consent	Functional cookie	Used for keeping the cookie bar hidden throughout the user session	30 days

3rd Party Cookies

Cookie	Type	Source	Description	Duration
_ga	Analytics cookie	Google	to store and count pageviews.	2 years
_ga_XC8Z27GYLZ	Analytics cookie	Google	to store and count pageviews.	2 years