This Cookie & Other Tracking Technologies Policy (“Cookie Policy”) explains Drive-in Autosound’s use of cookies and other tracking technologies to help you understand how we use these technologies to improve and protect Drive-in Autosound and the Drive-in Autosound Community. Drive-in Autosound uses tracking technologies and other automated data collection tools to understand your use of our website and services (our “Services”).
This Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Policy and should also be read along with our Terms of Service. Drive-in Autosound may amend this Cookie Policy at any time with changes taking effect immediately at posting.
What Tracking Technologies Do We Use?
Drive-in Autosound commonly uses cookies and pixels. Cookies are small text files that may be saved by your internet browser when you visit a website. These text files then store information about your use of Drive-in Autosound’s Services that can be retrieved from your device. When you visit Drive-in Autosound, our web server sends a cookie to your device, which allows us to recognize your device (but not the specific person using it). By associating information in the cookies with your account information, for example, when you log in to our Services, we know that the cookie information relates to your user account.
Cookies vary in how long they are kept on your device. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.
• “Session cookies” are temporary cookies that last for only a single browsing session. The information they collect is stored in temporary memory and erased shortly after you leave our website or close your browser.
• “Persistent cookies” are stored on your device until you take steps to remove the cookies or until a particular cookie’s expiration date (often several months after the cookie is placed on your device). Persistent cookies can record information from each visit you make to our website as long as they remain on your device.
Pixels are snippets of code or tiny invisible images embedded in email and websites that help us learn how you interact with our content (for example, if you clicked on a link or an image).
The tracking technologies we use are set by us, our trusted vendors, and some Creators, and we may link the information collected by tracking technologies to other information collected about you.
What Kind Of Information Do You Store?
Why Do We Use Tracking Technologies?
Tracking technologies are used primarily to collect and analyze data about your interactions with our website and projects. We use this information to understand project success and user behaviors to improve our website and personalize your experience. For example, Drive-in Autosound uses tracking technologies to help recognize you as a repeat visitor and to help understand the use of our website over time. We might use information obtained from tracking technologies to improve the quality of our Services, enhance your user experience on the website, recognize you or your preferences automatically, and customize your browsing by showing you projects more likely to be relevant to you. Tracking technologies are also used to analyze trends in website traffic and use and measure the effectiveness of marketing and advertising. When this information is provided to our vendors, it may be subject to their terms. For example, Google provides information that you can read about how Google uses information from the websites or apps that use their services.
Some examples of the types of tracking technologies Drive-in Autosound uses are below. For convenience, we organize these by general use. These categories are intended to provide information about how we use different types of tracking technologies. Please note that use can vary and some websites you visit may use and categorize tracking technologies differently than we do.
• Advertising and Marketing: These tracking technologies may be set by us or our advertising and marketing partners. They may be used, for example, to personalize the advertisements you see, collect details about our marketing campaigns, or limit how often you see a particular advertisement. They do not typically collect information that directly identifies you, but they may access information that uniquely identifies your browser or device and which may be combined with other information to identify you.
• Essential: Essential tracking technologies are necessary for our website to function and make it possible for you to use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. These tracking technologies also help with the security of our website by facilitating security features and allowing us to detect activity that might violate our rules and Terms of Service. Essential tracking technologies help to protect your account from unauthorized access as well, including by alerting you and us when your account is accessed and allowing us to disable active sessions (for example, when you log out or change your password).
• Functional: Functional tracking technologies help us enhance our website’s operation and personalize it to you. Functional cookies are usually set in response to actions you take to request certain services from us, such as setting your privacy preferences, language choice, account creation, or completing a form like a request for more information or support from our outreach team.
• Analytics: Analytics and statistics tracking technologies, sometimes known as “performance cookies,” allow us to understand how you use our website, such as identifying unique visits to our website, traffic sources, and pages visited, so we can measure and improve our website’s performance. They help us understand, for example, which pages or content are the most and least popular and how visitors move around the website.
Your Choices
Drive-in Autosound provides several ways for you to manage our use of tracking technologies. You can choose not to allow tracking technologies when you visit our website; however, blocking some types of these technologies may affect your ability to use our website. The choices available to you may differ based on where you live. All visitors to our website should have access to at least one of the following options to restrict some uses of tracking technologies.
Your Choices
Drive-in Autosound provides several ways for you to manage our use of tracking technologies. You can choose not to allow tracking technologies when you visit our website; however, blocking some types of these technologies may affect your ability to use our website. The choices available to you may differ based on where you live. All visitors to our website should have access to at least one of the following options to restrict some uses of tracking technologies.
Consenting and Updating Consents
In some locations, such as the European Union and United Kingdom, we may only use essential tracking technologies without your consent. Drive-in Autosound offers consent management tools to enable users to manage our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. When we require your consent for Functional, Analytics, and Advertising and Marketing tracking technologies, you will be shown a pop-up banner when you first visit our website requesting your consent to non-essential tracking technologies. You will not be able to opt out of Essential tracking technologies, as they are necessary for the operation of the Drive-in Autosound website.
When we ask for your consent to our use of tracking technologies on our website, you may withdraw your consent or change your preferences at any time. To update your preferences, please visit our Cookie Preferences tool linked at the bottom of each page of our website.
Opting Out Using Self-Regulatory Programs
Two key self-regulatory programs are available to help you control the use of Cookies on your browsers — the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative. Both programs help to regulate vendors in the digital advertising space. One function of their self-regulatory programs is to give you the ability to opt out of targeted advertising, including the use of cookies, from their member companies. If you live in the United States, Canada, or the European Economic Area and United Kingdom, you can visit the relevant Digital Advertising Alliance website to find a convenient place to opt out of targeted advertising for participating vendors for each region — Ad Choices (United States), Your Ad Choices (Canada), or Your Online Choices (European Economic Area and United Kingdom). The Network Advertising Initiative assists with opt outs through their Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising webpage.
Opting Out Using Your Browser
You may be able to disable cookies using your browser settings. Please review your browser’s instructions, or visit All About Cookies (an unaffiliated website) for general information. Most commonly used browsers will accept cookies by default until you change your settings.
In addition, many browsers, and some devices, offer privacy tools. For example, some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. Like many websites, our website is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “do not track” signals, visit All About DNT (an unaffiliated website).