Cookie Policy

📋 Introduction

Welcome to the Automotive DIY Cookie Policy. This document explains how Automotive DIY Inc. uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

We use cookies to enable our DIY tutorials, video academy, online store, and community forums to function properly, to analyze site traffic, to personalize your experience, and to deliver relevant content and advertisements.

🍪 What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a better user experience, and provide information to the website owners.

Along with cookies, we may also use other technologies such as:

• Web Beacons: Small files (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) embedded in web pages or emails to track visitor activity.
• Local Storage: A similar technology that allows larger amounts of data to be stored locally on your device.
• Flash Cookies: Data stored by Adobe Flash technology (though increasingly rare).

Throughout this policy, "cookies" refers to all these types of technologies.

🛠️ How We Use Cookies

At Automotive DIY, we use cookies for various purposes to enhance your experience with our platform:

• Authentication: To keep you logged into your account while you browse our guides or manage your tool orders.
• Security: To help prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data.
• Personalization: To remember your preferences, such as your preferred units (Imperial/Metric) for torque specs and measurement data.
• Analytics: To understand how visitors interact with our site, which DIY guides are most popular, and how to improve our content.
• Shopping Cart: To remember items in your cart as you browse our tool and parts store.
• Video Playback: To remember your video progress in our DIY video academy tutorials.

📊 Types of Cookies We Use

We and our partners set the following categories of cookies on your device:

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 your account login, cart functionality, and checkout process. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

Performance & Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visited most often and if you received error messages. They help us improve the quality of our DIY guides, video tutorials, and overall user experience. All data collected is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, if you set your torque specifications to ft-lbs, these cookies remember that preference across sessions.

Marketing & Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They are based on unique identifiers for your browser and device. You can opt out of these cookies at any time.

🤝 Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These include:

• Google Analytics: Helps us analyze traffic and usage patterns.
• YouTube: Used to embed our DIY tutorial videos.
• Payment Processors: Secure cookies set by Stripe/PayPal during checkout.
• Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pixels for ad tracking and sharing features.
• Customer Support: Intercom/Freshdesk cookies for live chat support.

These third parties use cookies to collect information about your activities on our site and other sites to provide targeted advertising. We do not control the activities of advertisers or these third-party providers, including their cookies or other information collection technologies. For more information about these specific third parties, please visit their respective privacy policies.

⚙️ How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences

You have several options for managing your cookie preferences:

Cookie Consent Manager

When you first visit our site, you will see a cookie banner where you can accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The default setting in most browsers is to accept cookies. If you restrict cookies, some features of our site (like the shopping cart or personalized guides) may not function properly.

Opt-Out of Advertising

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting:

• Digital Advertising Alliance
• Network Advertising Initiative

📝 Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business practices. When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.

Your continued use of our site after any modifications to this policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide by and be bound by the revised policy.

📬 Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:

We are committed to addressing any concerns you may have regarding privacy and data protection.