Privacy Policy

The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, Head Office is located at 3A Mayor Street, Dublin 1.

Phone: + 353 1 863 8600

E-mail: webmaster@audgen.irlgov.ie

General StatementThis policy establishes how the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General will use information we gather about you from your visit to our website. The privacy of our customers is of utmost importance to us. We fully respect your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission.

Collection and Use of Technical InformationWe may collect and store general information for statistical purposes. For example, we may count the number of visitors to the different pages of our website to help make them more useful to visitors. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  • the Internet domain (for example, 'xcompany.com' if you use a private Internet access account, or 'yourschool.edu' if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website
  • the type of browser and operating system used to access our site
  • the date and time you access our site
  • the pages you visit
  • if you visited this Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General website from a link on another website, the address of that website

In short the technical information will be used only by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.

Collection and Use of Personal InformationThe information that you provide on the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General website will be used only for its stated purpose. By sending us an e-mail message, you may be sending us personal information such as your name, address, and e-mail address. We may store your name, address and e-mail address in order to respond to your request or otherwise resolve the subject matter of the e-mail.

The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate technical details with any individual. It is our policy never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party, unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law

Right to Refuse CookiesThis website does not use cookies* on any part of the site. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from their web browser.

* Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can 'remember' you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.