Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

At MyBuilder, we recognise and respect the importance of protecting the privacy of the people who visit our website such as homeowners and tradespeople (“Visitors” or “you”).

This Cookies Policy describes how MyBuilder Limited (“we”, “our” or “us”) uses cookies on www.mybuilder.com (the “Website”).

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that are placed on your device when you browse websites. This helps us provide Visitors with a good experience when browsing the Website, as well as offering us insights in order to improve it. Examples of the way such cookies help us, include:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

3. Granting us permission to use cookies

When you visit the Website for the first time, you are presented with a pop-up banner requesting your permission to use cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by using the link below.

4. Turning Cookies off via your browser on your device

You can change the settings in some browsers on the device that you are using to visit the Website to enable you to control the cookies placed on your device. Please note that should you choose to decline the cookies our Website uses, you may not be able to access some parts of our Website or some parts of our Website will not work as you would expect. To find out more about disabling cookie in your browser settings, visit the following links for browsers that are commonly used:

To find out more about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

5. Types of Cookies

Necessary Cookies

We use Necessary Cookies to make our Website work including:

  • Making our searches and registration work
  • Determining if you are logged in or not
  • Remembering your search settings
  • Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
  • Allowing you to add comments to our site
  • Tailoring content to your needs

Necessary cookies help make the Website more usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies the Website cannot function properly.

Statistics Cookies

Statistics cookies help us understand how Visitors use our Website by collecting and reporting data.

We use cookies to compile Visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our Website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our Website isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our Website. These so-called "analytics" programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors as you visit different websites. It is used to display advertisements that are tailored and relevant to the individual user.

It should be noted that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

Marketing cookies also ensure that the Website can remember information that influences the behaviour and design of the Website, such as your preferred language or the region where you live.

We use:

You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the Website you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves, pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so-called "remarketing cookie" during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. We are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt out of these cookies at any time.

How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please send us a message via our Contact Us page or please contact us:

  • by post at Data Protection Officer, MyBuilder Limited, 1st Floor, 100 St. John Street, London EC1M 4EH; or
  • by email at datacontroller@mybuilder.com.

For a full list of cookies we use and to manage your consent, view our Cookie List.

You may also be interested in reading our Privacy Policy.

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