This website is maintained by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission.
Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated securely and confidentially in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer.(For example, when providing feedback or asking a question).
Any information you provide in this way is used only for the purpose you provide it.
Any information you provide in this way is used only for its specified purpose. For other types of information collected relating to website visitors see below.
We may collect the following information from each user of this site:
We use this information to analyse the usage patterns of the website in order to improve the website’s effectiveness. We will neither make attempts to identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above with any individual.
It is our policy never to disclose such information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless explicitly stated (see Google Analytics section below), or obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing activities on the website, or a unique identifier so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Cookies on buyerzone.gov.ie do not contain personal information from which you can be identified.
Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the ‘Help’ menu on your browser. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform uses cookies to anonymously gather user statistics and protect against malicious attack.
When you first visit this website the csrftoken cookie is set.
On arriving on the site, you will see a cookie notification informing you about cookies. If you click the ‘I agree’ button, the cookiejs_preferences cookie will be set.
Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies.
To find out how to do this, see the ‘Help’ menu on your browser.
Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of may not work correctly.
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has introduced Google Analytics to assist us in the functioning of this website. This service helps us to provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. We use IP Anonymization in Google Analytics .
The following google analytics cookies are set as soon as the user visits the site:
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If you are concerned about how personal data is processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention.
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
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.
