What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device. It allows a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a length of time.

How are Cookies used on this site

This site uses 2 different types of cookie: Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are not stored on your computer or mobile device.

They are used as part of the login process for security purposes.

A session cookie is also used to remember your language preference when viewing the site.

These session cookies are erased when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site.

This site only places cookies that are specific to this site.

You can view the cookies in use on this site and manage your preferences accessing the CookieFirst icon on the bottom of the website. 

 Strictly necessary

Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
__stripe_sid Stripe Inc..mybuildingsupplies.ie 30 minutes Set by Stripe for fraud prevention purposes, to assist in processing transactions on the site, and helps us assess the risk associated with an attempted transaction.
__cf_bm Cloudflare Inc..zendesk.com 30 minutes This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year  
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year  
wp_woocommerce_session_[abcdef0123456789]{32} mybuildingsupplies.ie 2 days  
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year  
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year  
_ga Google LLC.mybuildingsupplies.ie 2 years This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
_gat_gtag_UA_129231714_1 .mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 minute This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate).
__stripe_mid Stripe Inc..mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year Set by Stripe for fraud prevention purposes, to assist in processing transactions on the site, and helps us assess the risk associated with an attempted transaction.
__cfruid Cloudflare Inc..zendesk.com Session Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic.
m m.stripe.com 2 years Set by Stripe for fraud prevention purposes, to assist in processing transactions on the site, and helps us assess the risk associated with an attempted transaction.
woocommerce_cart_hash Automattic Inc.mybuildingsupplies.ie Session Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
_gid Google LLC.mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 day This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
_gat_UA-129231714-1 .mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 minute This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year  
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year  
woocommerce_items_in_cart Automattic Inc.mybuildingsupplies.ie Session Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.

Performance

Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
AWSALBCORS Amazon.com Inc.widget-mediator.zopim.com 7 days For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB).
omnisendAnonymousID .mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year Omnisend uses cookies to enable various automated features and segmentation.
soundest-views .mybuildingsupplies.ie Session Omnisend uses cookies to enable various automated features and segmentation.

Targeting

Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
YSC Google LLC.youtube.com Session This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.
_fbp Meta Platform Inc..mybuildingsupplies.ie 3 months Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
omnisendSessionID .mybuildingsupplies.ie 30 minutes Omnisend uses cookies to enable various automated features and segmentation.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Google LLC.youtube.com 6 months This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.
soundestID .mybuildingsupplies.ie Session Omnisend uses cookies to enable various automated features and segmentation.

Functionality

Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
__zlcmid Zendesk Inc..mybuildingsupplies.ie 1 year Live chat widget sets the cookies to store the Zopim Live Chat ID used to identify a device across visits.
br_lgv_stat .mybuildingsupplies.ie Session Set to manage product grid functionality on the site.

 

This cookie policy has been created and updated by Cookie Consent | CookieFirst.

This cookie table has been created and updated by the Cookie Banner.

Consent to the use of cookies.

For our website to function properly we use cookies. To obtain your valid consent for the use and storage of cookies in the browser you use to access our website and to properly document this we use a consent management platform: CookieFirst. This technology is provided by Digital Data Solutions BV, Plantage Middenlaan 42a, 1018 DH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Website: https://cookiefirst.com referred to as CookieFirst.

When you access our website, a connection is established with CookieFirst’s server to give us the possibility to obtain valid consent from you to the use of certain cookies. CookieFirst then stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to activate only those cookies to which you have consented and to properly document this. The data processed is stored until the predefined storage period expires or you request to delete the data. Certain mandatory legal storage periods may apply notwithstanding the aforementioned.

CookieFirst is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data processing agreement

We have concluded a data processing agreement with CookieFirst. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Server log files

Our website and CookieFirst automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The following data is collected:

  • Your consent status or the withdrawal of consent
  • Your anonymised IP address
  • Information about your Browser
  • Information about your Device
  • The date and time you have visited our website
  • The webpage url where you saved or updated your consent preferences
  • The approximate location of the user that saved their consent preference
  • A universally unique identifier (UUID) of the website visitor that clicked the cookie banner
Contact us

We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the details you have supplied us with, you may do so at any time by emailing a request to [email protected]

If at any time you would like to contact us with your views about our privacy practices, or with any enquiry relating to your personal information, you can do so by sending an email to [email protected] or by writing to us at:

My Building Supplies, Patrick Rogers Limited, O’Connell Street, F56 FE40, Ballymote, Co. Sligo.

This Cookie Policy was last revised on and is effective as of 30th October 2025.