Cookie Policy

Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies — such as local storage and session storage — also keep small amounts of information on your device. They can be set by us (first-party) or by another company whose service is used on a page (third-party).

BuyThis.ie uses technologies that are strictly necessary to provide the service you have asked for: signing you in, keeping your session active, protecting the platform, and remembering essential settings such as your theme and your cookie choices.

With your consent, we also use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the marketplace (for example which pages are viewed and how people move around the site) so we can keep improving it. We do not use advertising or marketing trackers, behavioural profiling, cross-site tracking pixels or third-party advertising networks on BuyThis.ie.

These cannot be switched off in our system because the service will not work without them:

• Authentication and session — your signed-in session is stored by our authentication provider in your browser's local storage so you stay logged in between pages and after returning from payment.
• Security and fraud prevention — session validation and server-side access rules protect accounts, listings and messages.
• Essential preferences — your light/dark theme choice and your recorded cookie choices.

Under the ePrivacy rules, technologies strictly necessary to deliver a service you have requested do not require prior consent. You can still remove them through your browser settings, but parts of BuyThis.ie will then stop working — for example you will be signed out.

With your consent, BuyThis.ie loads Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to measure how visitors use the site. GA4 is provided by Google Ireland Limited and uses first-party cookies and similar identifiers to collect information such as pages viewed, interactions, approximate location and device type.

Analytics is placed in a separate optional category and is only activated after you have given consent where the law requires it. You can withdraw consent at any time from Cookie Settings.

BuyThis.ie does not use advertising cookies, marketing pixels, retargeting tags or third-party advertising networks. No behavioural advertising profile is built about you on this platform.

When you choose to buy a Featured Ad or Boost, the payment is completed on Stripe's own checkout. Stripe sets its own cookies and similar technologies there for payment processing, security and fraud prevention. Those technologies are controlled by Stripe under its own privacy and cookie information, and they are only involved when you deliberately start a payment. We do not load Stripe tracking on ordinary browsing pages.

Optional technologies stay switched off until you turn them on. When you first visit BuyThis.ie (or after cookie practices materially change), you will see a consent request where you can accept or reject analytics. Your choices are available at any time on the Cookie Settings page, which you can also reach from Profile → Support & Info.

You can withdraw your consent at any time from the same page — without deleting your account. Our consent records include the policy version (currently 2026-08-ga), so if practices materially change we can ask again rather than relying on an out-of-date choice.

All major browsers let you block or delete cookies and clear site storage, and offer private browsing modes. Blocking or clearing storage for BuyThis.ie will sign you out and reset your theme and cookie choices, and some features may not work as expected.

This policy covers storage on your device. How we handle personal data more generally — the data we collect, the lawful bases, retention and your GDPR rights — is explained in our Privacy Policy.

Questions about cookies or privacy can be sent through the Contact Us page.