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Effective as of 01 February, 2022<\/p>\n
As the owner of this website (Automoblog, hereby referred to as the \u201cSite\u201d), Auto Media LLC<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cwe\u201d or \u201cus\u201d) understand that your privacy is of critical importance. \u00a0This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.<\/p>\n A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. \u00a0Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.<\/p>\n We use cookies for the following purposes:<\/p>\n (a) Personalization – we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you;<\/p>\n (b) Security – we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;<\/p>\n (c) Advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and<\/p>\n (d) Analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;<\/p>\n We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/a><\/p>\n Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0https:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/answer\/95647?hl=en<\/a>\u00a0(Chrome);<\/p>\n (b)\u00a0https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences<\/a>\u00a0(Firefox);<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0http:\/\/www.opera.com\/help\/tutorials\/security\/cookies\/<\/a>\u00a0(Opera);<\/p>\n (d)\u00a0https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/help\/17442\/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies<\/a>\u00a0(Internet Explorer);<\/p>\n (e) https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/safari\/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471\/mac<\/a>\u00a0(Safari); and<\/p>\n (f)\u00a0https:\/\/privacy.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy<\/a>\u00a0(Edge).<\/p>\n Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.<\/p>\n This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d\/b\/a CafeMedia (\u201cCafeMedia\u201d) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia\u2019s data usage, click here:\u00a0www.cafemedia.com\/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy<\/a><\/p>\n Automoblog is supported by its audience through different affiliate partnerships (one of the most common being Amazon). These types of partnerships result in what is known as affiliate links, which you will see throughout our site, especially in our product reviews and consumer guides. Any article that includes one or more affiliate links on our site is marked with a separate disclosure at the top.<\/p>\n If you visit these links and make a purchase, we most likely will earn a commission. Regarding\u00a0the Amazon example, as an Amazon Associate, we will earn a commission from qualifying purchases.<\/p>\n We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. If you have provided your email address to us, we promise to use it only for the purposes for which it is provided. \u00a0We will not use your email address to contact you for unrelated reasons.<\/p>\n We use MailerLite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.<\/p>\nOur Use of Cookies<\/h2>\n
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