How Cookies Are Used

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files stored in your browser. We also use similar technologies such as local storage for theme preferences. This policy describes how AUTOPARTSTUNER and its partners use cookies and related technologies.

Consent (EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we use Google’s certified consent management platform (CMP) to ask for your permission before serving personalized advertising cookies. You can accept, manage, or change your choices at any time through the consent banner or your browser settings.

Where consent is not required or not yet collected, some non-personalized or essential technologies may still run as described below.

Cookies and Technologies We Use

Essential and preference storage

• Theme preference — stored in your browser’s local storage (`apt-theme`) so light, dark, or system theme persists between visits. Not used for advertising.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar identifiers to serve ads, limit how often you see an ad, measure ad performance, and personalize ads based on your interests where permitted by law and your consent choices.

• Learn how Google uses data: Google partner sites policy
• Manage ad personalization: Google Ads Settings
• Opt out of personalized advertising by Google: Google ad personalization controls

Analytics

We may use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand aggregate traffic and page performance. This service is designed to be privacy-oriented and generally does not use cross-site tracking cookies for advertising.

Affiliate and merchant cookies

When you click a product or merchant link (including links routed through our /go/ redirect), you leave AUTOPARTSTUNER. Amazon and other merchants may set their own cookies to attribute referrals, remember your session, or personalize their site. Those cookies are controlled by the merchant, not by us.

We may record basic click metadata on our servers (such as which offer was clicked and the referring page) for internal analytics. That data is described in our Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party services embedded on or linked from this site may set cookies under their own policies. We do not control cookies placed after you visit an external merchant or service.

How to Control Cookies

• Use the Google consent banner (where shown) to accept or manage advertising cookies.
• Adjust preferences in your browser to block, delete, or limit cookies.
• Use industry opt-out tools such as aboutads.info (US) or Your Online Choices (EU).

Blocking cookies may affect site features, ad relevance, or how merchants attribute affiliate referrals.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Use our contact form.