Cookie Policy for BookMyGarage

BookMyGarage is part of The Motorists Organisation Ltd. Your use of this platform is subject to your acceptance of BookMyGarage's Terms, Conditions and Policies.

We use cookies on our platform to enhance your user experience, and to monitor and improve site performance. The data we collect using cookies helps us understand our customers better so that we can provide a more focused user experience. Using the knowledge of previous visits to our platform, we can enhance subsequent visits by tailoring our content to better match our users' requirements.

Our cookies don't store sensitive or personally identifiable information such as your name and address or credit card details.

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a platform and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a platform. When the user browses the same platform in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the platform to notify the platform of the user's previous activity or preferences. This data is usually not personally identifiable.

What Sort of Cookies Do We Use?

  1. Essential Cookies
  2. Some cookies are essential for the operation of this platform; for example, they may allow us to identify registered, logged-in users so that they can access the content and services for which we require registration. If you opt to disable such cookies, you will not be able to access such content.

  3. Security Cookies
  4. We use some cookies to enhance security on the site by preventing other users or platforms from impersonating you on our platform. The platform may not function properly without these cookies.

  5. Functional Cookies
  6. These cookies are associated with remembering preferences and actions on previous visits, to ensure that when you revisit the site it behaves as you would expect.

  7. Analytics Cookies
  8. We use other cookies to analyse how visitors use our platform. The information gathered through the use of such cookies is anonymous, and provides us with statistical, aggregate data on how visitors use the platform. We use this information to improve platform performance.

  9. Advertising Cookies
  10. We may from time to time use cookies to assist us and our advertisers to serve you with advertisements that we believe you may find relevant and interesting. However, the advertiser cannot tell who you are from any data gathered through use of these cookies.

How We Use Cookies On bookmygarage.com

  • To manage traffic to our platform.
  • To identify authenticated users on our platform so as to provide them with appropriate content.
  • To protect the platform against certain types of attack.
  • To support interactive features on our platform, such as chat, quizzes, and reminders.
  • To remember user preferences from previous visits to our platform.
  • To collect aggregated, anonymous statistical data on the use of our platform; we mainly use Google Analytics cookies for this purpose.
  • We may use cookies from various providers to track the performance of online advertising campaigns.

Managing Cookies

Most modern browsers allow you to refuse to use cookies. It may be possible to do so selectively, or for all cookies from this site. For example:

  • In Microsoft Edge, you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Settings", "Advanced Settings", and then "Cookies".
  • In Firefox, you can block all cookies by clicking "Options", "Privacy & Security", "History", and selecting "Use custom settings for history" which will show you options for blocking cookies.
  • In Chrome, you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Advanced", and "Content settings" under "Privacy & security", and then clearing "Allow sites to save and read cookie data" under the "Cookies" heading.

You can also delete cookies already stored by your web browser. For example:

  • In Microsoft Edge, you can delete cookies by clicking "Settings", "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Cookies and saved website data", and then clicking "Clear".
  • In Firefox, you can delete cookies by clicking "Options", "Privacy & Security", and then "Remove Individual Cookies".
  • In Chrome, you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Advanced", and "Clear browsing data" under "Privacy & security", and then selecting "Cookies and other site data" before clicking "Clear Data".

Please be aware that if you block essential or security cookies, you will not be able to use the full range of services offered on this site.


You can manage your cookie preferences by clicking the "Manage Cookies" button below.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us by email at info@bookmygarage.com or by post at:
The Motorists’ Organisation Ltd, 1000 Lakeside, North Harbour, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN