Cookie Policy

Cara Hickey Consultancy | carahickeyconsultancy.ie | Last updated: February 2026

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to recognise your device and store certain information about your preferences or actions over time.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others are used to understand how visitors use the site, or to support marketing activity. Under Irish and EU law, your consent is required before any non-essential cookies are set on your device.

2. How We Use Cookies

Cara Hickey Consultancy uses cookies for the following purposes:

•       To ensure the website functions correctly (necessary cookies)

•       To understand how visitors interact with the site, including which pages are visited and how long users spend on them (analytics cookies)

•       To record anonymised session activity to improve the user experience (analytics cookies)

•       To manage consent preferences and ensure compliance with data protection law

3. Your Consent

When you first visit carahickeyconsultancy.ie, a cookie consent banner will appear. You can choose to accept or decline non-essential cookies at that point. Necessary cookies are set automatically as they are required for the site to operate.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in the footer of this website. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before withdrawal.

4. Cookies We Use

4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function. They cannot be switched off. No consent is required to set these cookies.

4.2 Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website. All data is collected in aggregate and does not identify individual users. These cookies

4.3 Third-Party Cookies

The Zoom Scheduler booking widget embedded on this site is served from scheduler.zoom.us. Any cookies set by that tool are governed by Zoom's own privacy policy, available at zoom.us/privacy. We do not control these cookies.

5. Data Processors

The following third-party services process data collected through cookies on this website. Each acts as a data processor on our behalf under a Data Processing Agreement.

6. International Data Transfers

Google Analytics may transfer data outside the European Economic Area. Google Ireland Limited acts as the primary data processor for European users under Google's Data Processing Amendment. Data transfers to the United States are conducted under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, adopted in July 2023.

Zoom Video Communications is based in the United States. Data submitted via the Zoom Scheduler booking widget is subject to Zoom's privacy policy and their standard contractual clauses for international data transfers.

7. Data Retention

Analytics data collected via Google Analytics 4 is retained for 14 months from the date of collection, after which it is automatically deleted from Google's systems. Session recording data collected via Microsoft Clarity is retained for 30 days by default.

Consent records stored by Cookiebot are retained for 12 months from the date of consent.

8. Your Rights

Under the GDPR and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018, you have the right to:

•       Access the personal data we hold about you

•       Request correction of inaccurate data

•       Request deletion of your data

•       Object to or restrict processing

•       Withdraw consent at any time without affecting prior processing

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at cara@carahickeyconsultancy.ie.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission at dataprotection.ie, or with the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

9. Contact

Cara Hickey Consultancy

cara@carahickeyconsultancy.ie