Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Welcome to our website, Cars Online Free. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data responsibly.

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, we collect the data displayed in the comments form. Additionally, we collect your IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.

An anonymized string (also known as a hash) derived from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. You can view the Gravatar service privacy policy here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) as others might download and extract this location data from the images.

Cookies

When you comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again for future comments. These cookies last for one year.

Visiting our login page triggers a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies, which contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Upon logging in, we set several cookies to store your login information and your screen display choices. These cookies last for two days or up to a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Upon logging out, these cookies are removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser to indicate the post ID of the article you just edited. This cookie expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, and articles. This content from other websites behaves in the exact same manner as if you visited the other website directly.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into those websites.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention

We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically. For users who register on our site (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username cannot be changed). Administrators of the site can also view and edit that information.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transmission

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to prevent unwanted or malicious activity.