Cookie Policy

Statement on the use of Cookies

Our use of cookies

Our website www.autolook.co.uk uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site,  you accept the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy.

 

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from our web server to your browser, which is saved on the hard drive of your computer, smartphone or other device (“your device”).

 

A cookie cannot:

• read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites;
• damage your system;
• run programmes on your computer; or deliver viruses.

You can change your browser settings to refuse cookies or alert you when a cookie is being sent at any time. If you do choose not to accept cookies, some features of the Site may not work . We do not use cookies to identify you personally, except when you opt to use the ‘Remember me’ facility when logging in.  

Autolook will not use these cookies to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. 

Session cookies

These are used to keep track of information needed by a user and their browser on their journey through a website. Session cookies have a short lifetime and expire within a few minutes of the user leaving the site. Occasionally we will use 30 Day cookies which are similar to Session cookies but last a bit longer. They remember basic date to help improve the service you receive from us.

Permanent Cookies

These are stored on your computer and are not deleted when the browser is closed. This is so they can retain your preferences for a particular website, allowing those preferences to be used in future browsing sessions. Permanent cookies can be used to analyse users' surfing behaviour within the Site, so that we can improve our services and allows us to prioritise our enhancements to the Site. 

Further Information about Cookies

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an industry body that develops standard and guidelines to support online business processes. It has produced a series of web pages which explain how cookies work and how they can be managed.

 

Disabling and Enabling Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser. The IAB site tells you how to remove cookies from your browser.

 

Name	Cookies	Purpose
Autolook Email	autolookemail	Use to store the user email address.
Autolook Password	autolookpass	Use to store the user password.
Save Ads	autolookuksavedads	Use to save the ads.
Postcode	postCodeCookies	This is used to pre-populate the postcode field on the new vehicle search forms. It also re-sets the GeoLocation and used vehicle postcode cookie [SearchData].
Town	townCookies	This is used to pre-populate the town field on the new vehicle search forms. It also re-sets the GeoLocation and used vehicle postcode cookie [SearchData].
PHPSESSID	PHPSESSID	It is use to keep track of user sessions.
Google Analytics data	_gat	This cookie does not store any user information, it's just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net.
Google Analytics data	_ga	We use Google Analytics to carry out statistical analysis of page use, page interactions and paths through the Website to evaluate and develop our Website.
AddThis social sharing	__atuvc	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.
AddThis social sharing	__atuvs	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms.