Met Éireann respects your right to privacy. Any personal information which you volunteer on this website will be treated with appropriate standards of security and confidentiality and in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003. If you volunteer personal information in an e-mail or as an e-mail address in the form of an enquiry or comment the data will not be made available to any third party and will be used solely for the purpose for which it was intended.

Our Web server collects technical details of site visits such as:

• the IP address of the visitor’s web client
• the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
• the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
• clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
• the type of web browser used by the website visitor.

This information is for statistical purposes only and none of it will be used to identify individual site visitors unless required to do so by law.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). This service uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how visitors to met.ie use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for Met Éireann, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website and allowing cookies to remain enabled, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes as set out above.

In addition to the cookies set by Google the following anonymous cookies are also set by the site:

• A language preference cookie to let us know if you prefer to view the site through Irish or English
• A county preference cookie to allow us to show forecast data for your area
• A cookie to let us know if you wish to view the desktop or mobile version of the website

None of these cookies store any personal information and are only used to provide users with an improved user experience.

If, after supplying personal information, you require a copy of it or you wish to discuss, correct or delete it, you may write (including the personal details supplied via the website) to Head of Business Continuity Management and Digital Communications, Met Éireann, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9.

The Met Éireann website METweb.ie contains copyright-protected materials.Intellectual property rights of the data on this website belong solely to Met Éireann, a Division of the Dept of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Save for the exceptions noted below in these conditions of use, the content of the web pages, or portions of them, may not be distributed, published, transferred or copied in any form without the prior written permission of Met Éireann. The name Met Éireann and the Met Éireann logo are registered trademarks.

The use of these web pages, and the information contained within them, by public-service organisations and agencies in the pursuance of their public task is allowed subject to the condition that the source of the information is always credited in connection with its use.

The use of the web pages, and the information contained within them, for any commercial or revenue-generating purpose is explicitly prohibited.

Organisations are provided with a Username and Password to METweb solely for the purpose of enabling access to weather information from Met Éireann to assist them in the pursuance of their public tasks and duties. Usernames and Passwords relating to METweb must not be communicated to any person outside the organisation or to any person who does not have an indentifiable requirement for access flowing from the public tasks and duties of the organisation concerned.

Met Éireann will under no circumstances be held liable for any direct or indirect consequence or damage that may occur from the use of information offered on this website. No reference to, or mention of, information, products or services on other websites may be regarded as a recommendation by Met Éireann. Met Éireann cannot be held liable for the content of any off-site web-pages to which it refers.

The reproduction or distribution of the elements of METweb.ie which are provided is permitted,when explicitly employed for the furtherance of the public tasks and duties of the organisation to which access to METweb has been provided,provided that Met Éireann is clearly acknowledged as the source. Meteorological statements, and graphical representations or images bearing the Met Éireann logo or copyright sign, may not be altered.

The use of any robot, spider, deep-link, page-scrape or any other automated device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the site is prohibited. The use of METweb.ie, or any element of METweb.ie, to advertise or sell products and services, to increase traffic to any other website for commercial gain, or to mirror any content on any other website, is prohibited unless prior written permission for such use has been obtained from Met Éireann.

Any use of the website in a manner likely to jeopardize, overload or damage the information infrastructure of Met Éireann, or in a manner likely to inhibit other users when accessing met.ie, is prohibited.