Last updated: 11/11/2025
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, mobile phone) when you visit certain websites. They are used to 'remember' you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a "session cookie") or for multiple repeat visits (using a "persistent cookie").
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a few essential purposes:
- Authentication: We use Firebase Authentication, which uses cookies to manage your login session. These are strictly necessary to provide you with a secure, logged-in experience. Without them, you would not be able to access your dashboard or other protected areas of the site.
- Site Functionality: We use your browser's `sessionStorage` to keep track of which spare part or garage profiles you have viewed during a single browsing session. This is a technical measure to prevent your own repeated visits from artificially inflating the view counts on listings. This information is temporary and is deleted when you close your browser tab.
Third-Party Cookies
Our primary service provider, Google Firebase, uses cookies to provide its authentication services. How Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services is detailed in Google's policies.
Your Choices
Because we only use cookies that are strictly necessary for the site to function, we do not provide an option to disable them. If you do not wish to accept these cookies, you will not be able to use the logged-in features of our website.
You can manage cookies through your web browser's settings. However, disabling them may affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.