Last updated: 16/06/2026
Effective from: May 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Twin Isles Export Ltd, trading as autopartsonline.ie (“we”, “us”, “our”), uses cookies, tracking pixels, tags, scripts, server logs, local storage technologies, and similar tracking technologies on our ecommerce website.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Shipping Policy, and Refund and Returns Policy.
We use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Irish data protection law, applicable EU ePrivacy rules, and guidance from the Irish Data Protection Commission.
1. Business Information and Data Controller
This website is operated by:
Company Name: Twin Isles Export Ltd, trading as autopartsonline.ie
CRO Registration Number: 804995
VAT Registration Number: IE4548222NH
Registered Corporate Address: 6 Fern Road, Sandyford, Dublin, D18 FP98, Ireland
Contact & Privacy Email: hello@autopartsonline.ie
Support WhatsApp / Phone: +353 87 262 7605
For the purposes of applicable data protection law, Twin Isles Export Ltd is the data controller for personal data collected through our website, except where a third-party provider acts as an independent controller under its own privacy terms.
2. Where We Currently Sell and Deliver
We currently sell and deliver online orders only within the Republic of Ireland.
We do not currently sell or deliver online orders to Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, or countries outside the Republic of Ireland.
Some cookies and tracking technologies may help us operate checkout, delivery, advertising, analytics, fraud prevention, and customer support functions connected with Republic of Ireland orders.
3. What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help a website function properly by remembering information such as basket contents, login sessions, checkout progress, consent choices, and security settings.
Similar tracking technologies may include:
- Tracking pixels
- Tags
- Scripts
- Google tags
- Analytics tools
- Advertising identifiers
- Local storage technologies
- Server logs
- Consent-management tools
These technologies may help us operate our website, process orders, secure checkout, measure website performance, understand customer behaviour, measure advertising performance, and, where permitted, provide personalised advertising.
4. Types of Cookies We Use
We group cookies and similar technologies into the following categories.
5. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the basic operation, security, and functionality of autopartsonline.ie.
These cookies help us provide core ecommerce functions, including:
- Keeping items in your shopping basket
- Allowing checkout to work correctly
- Maintaining secure website sessions
- Supporting account login functions
- Processing payment steps securely
- Helping prevent fraud and abuse
- Remembering your cookie consent choices
- Protecting the website from security threats
These cookies are necessary for the website to work and cannot usually be turned off through our cookie banner.
You may be able to block them using your browser settings, but parts of the website may not work properly if you do so.
6. Performance and Analytics Cookies
Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.
These cookies may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Products viewed
- Time spent on pages
- Traffic sources
- Search terms used on the website
- Checkout behaviour
- Error messages
- Page loading performance
- General website usage patterns
We use this information to improve website speed, layout, product navigation, checkout performance, and customer experience.
Where required by law, analytics cookies are only used after you provide consent through our cookie banner or cookie settings tool.
7. Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing and advertising cookies may be used to measure advertising performance, track conversions, build remarketing audiences, and show more relevant advertising for automotive parts and accessories.
These cookies may help us:
- Measure whether Google Ads or other ads lead to purchases
- Understand advertising performance
- Avoid showing the same ad too many times
- Build remarketing audiences
- Show more relevant product advertising
- Measure campaign effectiveness
- Improve our marketing spend and customer outreach
Marketing and advertising cookies are non-essential and are only used where permitted by law and where you have given consent through our cookie banner or cookie settings tool.
If you do not consent to marketing cookies, you may still see ads from us or from other businesses, but those ads may be less relevant to your interests.
8. Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies help the website remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
These may include remembering:
- Cookie preferences
- Account preferences
- Display preferences
- Recently viewed products
- Region or location preferences
- Form information, where appropriate
Some functionality cookies may be essential for basic website operation. Others may be optional and used only where consent is required.
9. Consent for Non-Essential Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are used because they are required for our website to work correctly.
All non-essential cookies, including analytics cookies, marketing cookies, advertising pixels, conversion tracking, and similar tracking technologies, are blocked by default where consent is required by law.
These technologies will only be activated after you give clear consent through our cookie banner or cookie settings tool.
You may withdraw or change your consent at any time.
You can manage your cookie choices by:
- Using the cookie settings tool on our website
- Rejecting non-essential cookies through the cookie banner
- Clearing cookies in your browser
- Blocking cookies through your browser settings
- Contacting us at hello@autopartsonline.ie
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
10. Third-Party Cookies and Service Providers
Some cookies and tracking technologies on autopartsonline.ie may be provided by trusted third-party service providers.
These providers may process information such as:
- IP address
- Device type
- Browser type
- Cookie identifiers
- Page interactions
- Ad interactions
- Purchase or conversion events
- Approximate location
- Website usage information
Third-party providers may include:
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads
- Google Tags
- Google conversion tracking tools
- Jetpack / Automattic tools
- Hostinger Reach or similar marketing tools
- Payment and fraud-prevention providers
- Website hosting and security providers
- Consent-management tools
Some third-party providers may act as processors on our behalf. Others may act as independent controllers under their own privacy policies.
For more information about how personal data is processed, please review our Privacy Policy.
11. Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Google Tags
We may use Google services, including Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tags, conversion tracking, and remarketing tools.
These tools may help us:
- Measure website traffic
- Understand customer journeys
- Track sales conversions
- Measure advertising performance
- Improve product advertising
- Build remarketing audiences
- Understand whether ads lead to purchases
Where required by law, Google analytics and advertising cookies are only activated after you provide consent.
Google may process data such as IP address, cookie identifiers, device information, page interactions, browsing behaviour, and ad interaction data in accordance with Google’s own privacy terms.
You can manage your Google advertising preferences through your Google account settings, your browser settings, and our cookie consent controls.
12. Cookie and Tracking Tool Summary
The table below summarises the main categories of cookies and tracking tools that may be used on autopartsonline.ie.
| Tool / Provider | Cookie Type | Primary Purpose | Typical Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website session cookies | Strictly necessary | Preserves shopping basket items, checkout steps, account login states, and security functions across pages | Session-based |
| Cookie banner / consent cookie | Strictly necessary | Records and remembers your cookie consent choices | Up to 12 months |
| Checkout and security cookies | Strictly necessary | Supports secure checkout, payment flow, fraud prevention, and website protection | Session to 12 months |
| Google Analytics | Analytics / performance | Measures website traffic, page views, customer journeys, and site performance | Up to 2 years |
| Google Ads and Google Tags | Marketing / advertising | Measures ad performance, conversion events, and remarketing activity | 90 days to 1 year |
| Hostinger Reach or similar tools | Marketing / communication | Supports marketing campaigns, email performance, and customer outreach statistics | Up to 6 months |
| Jetpack / Automattic tools | Functionality / security / performance | Supports website security, performance monitoring, traffic statistics, and protection from malicious activity | Session to 2 years |
| Server logs | Security / technical | Records technical access logs for security, diagnostics, and fraud prevention | Varies depending on system settings |
The exact cookies, providers, names, and lifespans may change over time as we update our website, ecommerce platform, plugins, analytics tools, advertising tools, or security systems.
Where possible, we will keep this Cookie Policy and our cookie banner updated to reflect the cookies and tracking tools currently in use.
13. How to Restrict or Delete Cookies in Your Browser
In addition to using our website cookie settings tool, you can control, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Common browser controls include:
Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
Apple Safari: Settings or Preferences → Privacy → Manage website data or block cookies
Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions
Please note that if you block all cookies, important parts of autopartsonline.ie may not work correctly. This may affect your basket, checkout, login session, payment flow, and other essential website features.
14. How to Withdraw or Change Consent
You can withdraw or change your consent for non-essential cookies at any time.
You can do this by:
- Opening the cookie settings tool on our website
- Changing your cookie preferences
- Rejecting non-essential cookies
- Clearing cookies in your browser
- Contacting us at hello@autopartsonline.ie
It should be as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give consent.
If you clear your browser cookies, our website may ask you to choose your cookie preferences again.
15. Relationship With Our Privacy Policy
Cookies and tracking technologies may involve the processing of personal data.
For more information about how we collect, use, store, share, protect, and delete personal data, please read our Privacy Policy.
Our Privacy Policy explains:
- What personal data we collect
- Why we collect it
- Our GDPR legal bases
- Who we share data with
- International data transfers
- Data retention periods
- Your GDPR rights
- Data deletion requests
- Marketing opt-outs
- Privacy contact details
16. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, ecommerce platform, plugins, advertising tools, analytics tools, security tools, legal obligations, or cookie practices.
When we update this page, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy.
Material changes may also be communicated through a website notice, updated cookie banner, or other appropriate method.
17. Contact for Privacy and Cookie Queries
For questions about cookies, tracking technologies, consent choices, Google advertising tools, analytics, privacy rights, or data deletion requests, please contact us:
Corporate Entity: Twin Isles Export Ltd, trading as autopartsonline.ie
Postal Address: 6 Fern Road, Sandyford, Dublin, D18 FP98, Ireland
Support Email: hello@autopartsonline.ie
Support WhatsApp / Phone: +353 87 262 7605