AutoFix Garage Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how AutoFix Garage ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, located at [www.autofixgarage.com](index.php) ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons, including:
- Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable. For example, remembering your preferred language or region.
- Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you. This data helps us improve user experience.
- Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. We only use these if you provide consent for marketing cookies.
Types of Cookies We Use
The specific types of cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in more detail below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| __gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Google Analytics | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | Google Analytics | 1 minute |
| cookieConsent | Records the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | AutoFix Garage | 1 year |
How can you control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using our cookie consent manager provided on our website. The consent manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Here are links to cookie management information for some common browsers:
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
Do we use other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns.
Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Where can you get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:
AutoFix Garage
Attn: Data Privacy Officer
123 Main Street
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 408-555-1212
This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 26, 2023.
Policy Author: Dr. Eleanor Vance, Data Protection Consultant