Cookies

This website is intended to provide general information to clients, prospects and potential employees about our professional services and solutions.

BDO gathers information from users of this web site automatically and when you decide to provide us with information, for example, when you complete a form on www.bdo.ie. This information is treated with confidence, and is only used by BDO as per the terms of the Privacy Statement. 

Cookies

Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application. Your web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) then sends these cookies back to the website or application on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise you and remember things like personalised details or user preferences. Cookies do not damage your system. You can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent.

To improve your experience and to make our service to you better we use cookies for the purposes of system administration and analytics of our website. This gives us information about the number of visitors to different parts of our website.

BDO does not share this data with third parties. Our cookies don’t store sensitive information such as your name or address, they simply just enable us to see behaviour on the website to help us improve your experience. However, if you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from BDO.ie, or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

How to control your cookies

There are various ways that you can control and manage your cookies which are discussed in a bit more detail below. Please remember that any settings you change will not just affect BDO.ie cookies. These changes will apply to all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies from particular sites).

Managing cookies in your browser

Most modern browsers will allow you to:

  • See what cookies you have got and delete them on an individual basis.
  • Block third party cookies.
  • Block cookies from particular sites.
  • Block all cookies from being set.
  • Delete all cookies when you close your browser.

You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies. This includes where you have opted out from cookies, as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set. Also, if you block cookies completely many websites will not work properly and some functionality on these websites will not work at all.

Managing analytics cookies

It is possible to opt out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. BDO.ie uses tracking solutions like Google Analytics and Hotjar to track website metrics.
For Google Analytics, you can opt out of their cookies by visiting their opt-out page. Please note that this will take you to Google Analytic’s website and generate a ‘no thanks’ cookie, which will stop any further cookies being set by those third parties.

We use Hotjar to better understand the interests of people visiting our website and to optimise the offering and experience on this website. With the help of Hotjar's technology, we get a better understanding of our website visitors' experiences (e.g. how much time visitors spend on which pages, which links they click, what they like and what they don't like, etc.), and this helps us to align our offering with the feedback from our visitors. Hotjar works with address of the device (only recorded and stored in an anonymised form during your website use), screen size, device type (Unique Device Identifiers), information about the browser used, location (country only), preffered language for displaying our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymised user profile. Hotjar is contractually prohibited from selling the data collected on our behalf. That said, we know and respect that some people might prefer to have Hotjar not process their information across any site on the web, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to make a 'Do Not Track' request. You can find all the necessary information and a detailed guide on how to enable the 'Do Not Track' settings here.

For more information, see the 'About Hotjar' Section on Hotjar's Help Page here.

Further information about cookies and how to manage them

If you would like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit aboutcookies.org*

*Please note that BDO cannot be responsible for the content of external websites.