AutoUncle Cookie Policy

Cookies

We use cookies, pixels, and other technologies (collectively, "cookies") to recognise your browser or device, learn more about your interests, and provide you with essential features and services and for additional purposes, including:

  • Recognising you when you sign-in to use our services. This allows us to offer you ways to save cars as favorites, upload data about your own car and provide other customised features and services.
  • Improving security.
  • Delivering content, including ads, relevant to your interests on AutoUncle sites and third-party sites (see the Interest-Based Ads notice for how we use cookies in serving interest-based ads).
  • Reporting. This allows us to measure and analyse the performance of our services.

AutoUncle cookies allow you to take advantage of some of AutoUncle’s essential features. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add cars as favorite and sign up for search agents.

Approved third parties may also set cookies when you interact with AutoUncle services. Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies. Third parties use cookies in the process of delivering content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of AutoUncle. Learn more about third parties that may set cookies when you use AutoUncle services.

You can manage browser cookies through your browser settings. The 'Help' feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, how to disable cookies, and when cookies will expire. If you disable all cookies on your browser, neither we nor third parties will transfer cookies to your browser. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some features and services may not work.

See our Privacy Notice for more information about the types of information we gather.

Internet-based ads

Interest-based ads are sometimes referred to as personalised or targeted ads. We show interest-based ads to display features, products, and services that might be of interest to you.

What sort of information do we use to show interest-based ads?

To serve you interest-based ads, we use information such as your interactions with AutoUncle sites, content, or services. We do not use personally identifiable information such as name or e-mail to serve interest-based ads. In serving you interest-based ads we only keep information collected for as long as required to provide our advertising services, in accordance with our Privacy Notice and applicable laws.

As is common in the advertising industry, we use cookies, pixels, and other technologies (collectively, "cookies"), which enable us to understand the effectiveness of the interest-based ads we show you by measuring what ads are clicked or viewed, and to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. For example, if we know what ads are shown to your browser we can be careful not to show the same ads repeatedly.

See our Privacy Notice for more information about the types of information that we gather.

How do we work with third parties to show you interest-based ads?

We work with third parties, such as advertisers, publishers, social media networks, search engines, ad serving companies, and advertising companies working on their behalf, to improve the relevance of ads we serve. In providing you interest-based ads we do not associate your interactions on unaffiliated sites with personally identifiable information, and we do not provide any personally identifiable information to advertisers or to third party sites that display our interest-based ads. Advertisers and other third parties may assume that users who interact with or click on an interest-based ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, users in a particular geographical area or users who browsed for specific type of car). Some third-parties may provide us non-personally identifiable information about you (such as demographic information or sites where you have been shown ads) from offline and online sources that we may use to provide you more relevant and useful advertising.

Third party advertisers or advertising companies working on their behalf sometimes use cookies in the process of delivering content, including ads, directly to your browser or device, and they may automatically receive an IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of their ads, show you more relevant advertising content, and perform services on behalf of AutoUncle.

Third party cookies

Below is a list of some of the third parties that may set cookies when you use AutoUncle services. These third parties may access the cookies they set, receive your IP address, and receive some information about your browser configuration. Cookies set by these third parties do not enable them to automatically collect through AutoUncle any personally identifiable information such as name or email address. These third parties use cookies in the process of delivering content, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, to show you more relevant advertising content, and to perform services on behalf of AutoUncle. You can learn more about how these third parties use cookies by visiting their site.

Manage settings


Strictly necessary cookies

csrf_token

Provider: AutoUncle

Duration: 10 minutes

Description: Allows for improved website speed by serving cached pages, while ensuring that forms work correctly. The CSRF token improves the security of the website, by comparing the expected token sent by the client, to the one which is actually sent when submitting a form. This ensures that the request submitted with the form comes from the real client, and not from a malicious party.


_autouncle_session

Provider: AutoUncle

Duration: Session

Description: Contains a session ID, which allows the website to function correctly and securely.


__cf_bm

Provider: Cloudflare

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management.


geo-location

Provider: UserCentrics

Duration: Persistent

Description: Our provider UserCentrics sets this cookie to operate the Consent Management platform.


gdpr-auditId

Provider: UserCentrics

Duration: Persistent

Description: Our provider UserCentrics sets this cookie to operate the Consent Management platform.


gdprVendorList

Provider: UserCentrics

Duration: Persistent

Description: This opt-out cookie identifies if the visitor has deselected any cookies, trackers or other audience targeting tools.


Functional

preferred_locale

Provider: AutoUncle

Duration: 1 year

Description: This cookie stores the language in which the user prefers to view the website. It’s used to consistently display the website in the same language across sessions, or as a fallback language option in the cases where a default language cannot be deducted from the URL.


recent_searches

Provider: AutoUncle

Duration: Session

Description: This cookie helps us display recent searches on the visitor's next visit.


Analytics

_ga

Provider: Google Analytics

Duration: 2 years

Description: The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.


_ga_3MV5MNC5WM

Provider: Google Analytics

Duration: 2 years

Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.


_gid_

Provider: Google Analytics

Duration: 1 day

Description: Installed by Google Analytics, the _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.


_gat_gtag_UA_#

Provider: Google Analytics

Duration: 1 minute

Description: Set by Google to distinguish users.


_gat

Provider: Google Analytics

Duration: 1 minute

Description: This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.


_hjFirstSeen

Provider: Hotjar

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.


_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

Provider: Hotjar

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.


_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

Provider: Hotjar

Duration: 1 day

Description: Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics


_hjSessionUser_#

Provider: Hotjar

Duration: 1 year

Description: Hotjar sets this cookie when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.


_hjIncludedInSessionSample_#

Provider: Hotjar

Duration: 2 minutes

Description: Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.


_hjSession_#

Provider: Hotjar

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.


Advertising

test_cookie

Provider: Doubleclick

Duration: 15 minutes

Description: The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.


akacd_autouncle

Provider: Publift

Duration: 30 days

Description: This cookie is set by our provider Publift - owner of the Fuse Plaftorm to handle. Used in connection with phased release which allows the website owner to assign a certain number of users to a specific version of the website.


_fbp

Provider: Meta (Facebook)

Duration: 3 months

Description: This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.


xs

Provider: Meta (Facebook)

Duration: 3 months

Description: Stores a unique session ID


wd

Provider: Meta (Facebook)

Duration: 1 week

Description: Stores the screen resolution


c_user

Provider: Meta (Facebook)

Duration: 30 days

Description: Stores a unique session ID


datr

Provider: Meta (Facebook)

Duration: 2 years

Description: Provides fraud prevention


sb

Provider: Meta (Facebook)

Duration: 2 years

Description: Stores browser details


ad-privacy

Provider: Amazon Ad System

Duration: 7 months

Description: Provides ad delivery or retargeting


ad-id

Provider: Amazon Ad System

Duration: 5 years

Description: Provides ad delivery or retargeting


A3

Provider: Yahoo

Duration: 13 months

Description:


IDSYNC

Provider: Yahoo

Duration: 13 months

Description: