Cookie Policy

Our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

What is a cookie?

At its simplest, a cookie is a small file that a website stores on your computer so it can recognise you when you return to the website and remember something about you at a later date.

What kind of cookies does buymaterials.com use?

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to sign into your buymaterials.com account and see your projects and quotes.

Analytical/performance cookies

These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, remembering last products you searched for on buymaterials.com  so you don’t have to type it every time).

Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Third party cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks, payment processors and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Opting-out of cookies

While continued use of the buymaterials.com website assumes compliance with our current cookie policy, you can change your privacy settings at any time.

Opting out of cookies is easy, but how do you do it depends on the browser you’re using. The best guide to turning off cookies is available at cookiesandyou.com.