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Cookie Policy

Effective Date: May 12th 2025

This website is operated on behalf of DCU:Innovate, a Dublin City University initiative. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies, in line with Irish and EU data protection law.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember your preferences, analyse usage, and improve user experience.

Cookies may be:

  • Necessary: Essential for website functionality.

  • Preference: Remember your settings or choices.

  • Statistics: Help us understand how visitors interact with the site.

  • Marketing: Used to track visitors for advertising purposes (we currently do not use these).

2. How We Use Cookies

We use Cookiebot to manage cookie consent on this site. You are given full control to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

Our use of cookies is limited and privacy-conscious. We only use:

  • Essential cookies required for site functionality

  • Plausible Analytics, which is cookie-free and does not track personal data

  • Cookiebot, which sets cookies to record your consent preferences

You can always review or change your consent using the cookie banner or the Cookie Declaration (link inserted by Cookiebot).

3. Plausible Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics to gather anonymous statistics about how our website is used. Plausible does not use cookies, does not track personal data, and is fully compliant with GDPR.

More info: https://plausible.io/data-policy

4. Managing Cookies

You can control or delete cookies at any time using your browser settings. Alternatively, use the cookie control panel provided by Cookiebot when visiting our site.

For help managing cookies on popular browsers:

5. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this page, with the date of the most recent change listed above.

6. Contact

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact:

DCU:Innovate Hub
hello@dcuinnovate.ie