How Car Care File handles basic site data.

This policy explains the practical data situations on Car Care File: contact emails, analytics, cookies, affiliate links, logs and privacy requests.

Interior car cleaning tools on a vehicle seat area — Privacy handling should be clear even on a small editorial site.

Information you send to us

If you email support@carcarefile.com, we receive the information you choose to include, such as your email address, name, page URL, correction note, partnership inquiry or privacy request. We use that information to read, route and respond to the message. Do not send sensitive vehicle documents, payment details or private account credentials.

We may keep email records for a reasonable period so we can track corrections, repeated issues, affiliate inquiries, privacy requests and editorial decisions. If a correction affects a published page, we may use the substance of the correction to update the page, but we do not need to publish your personal contact details to do that.

Small garage with tires and workshop equipment — Contact routes should stay readable on every page.

Analytics, cookies and logs

Like many WordPress sites, Car Care File may use server logs, security logs, analytics tools, cookies or similar technologies to understand traffic, protect the site, measure page performance and identify broken pages. These tools may collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, approximate location, referring page, visited URLs, time on page and error information.

Cookies may be used by WordPress, security tools, analytics providers, embedded services or affiliate networks. You can limit cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect some site functions, but normal reading should generally remain possible.

We do not use analytics to identify individual readers by name. We look for patterns such as which pages are useful, which images fail to load, which devices have layout problems and whether a link leads to an error.

Affiliate links and third parties

When you click an affiliate or external link, you leave Car Care File and the destination site may collect data under its own privacy policy. Affiliate networks and retailers may use tracking parameters or cookies to attribute a sale. We do not control how those third parties process your data after you leave the site.

External links may point to retailers, manufacturer manuals, safety agencies, advertiser pages, affiliate networks or reference sources. Review the destination site before entering personal or payment information. Car Care File does not receive your payment card details when you buy from a third-party retailer.

Security and data requests

We use reasonable administrative and technical practices for a small editorial site, but no website can guarantee perfect security. If you believe a page, form, link or email route exposes personal data incorrectly, contact us with the URL and a concise explanation.

You can request access, correction or deletion of personal information you have sent directly to us by emailing support@carcarefile.com. We may need enough information to verify the request and locate the message. We may retain limited records when needed for security, legal, anti-spam, accounting or editorial integrity purposes.

Children, changes and contact

Car Care File is written for adult drivers and vehicle owners. It is not directed to children. We do not knowingly request personal information from children.

This policy may change when site tools, analytics, affiliate networks or legal requirements change. The current version will remain available on this page. Questions about this policy should be sent to support@carcarefile.com.

How long information is kept

We keep direct email and correction records only as long as they are useful for operating the site, handling disputes, improving pages, complying with basic business requirements or protecting the site from abuse. Routine analytics and server logs may have separate retention periods depending on the provider or host. We do not sell a reader list, and we do not run a membership profile system for ordinary reading.

If a message includes unnecessary personal details, we may remove those details from our working notes while keeping the correction itself. For example, a note about an incorrect product limit can be kept without retaining extra personal context that was not needed.

Privacy tools change over time. Browser privacy settings, analytics products, affiliate networks and WordPress plugins can all update their behaviour. When those changes materially affect this policy, this page should be updated rather than leaving readers to guess.

International readers

Car Care File is aimed primarily at US and UK drivers, but visitors may arrive from other countries. Privacy rights and terminology vary by location. If you have a jurisdiction-specific request, describe the right you want to exercise and the email address or message involved. We will handle reasonable requests through the same support address where possible.

This policy is written to be useful rather than to hide behind vague legal language. It does not create a contract with every third-party provider, and it does not replace the privacy terms of networks, hosts, analytics tools or retailers that operate outside this site.

Contact-route visibility

The support email is repeated on this page because privacy instructions fail when the contact route is hard to see. Links and email addresses should remain readable against the background, on desktop and mobile, and after theme or cache changes. If a visual problem makes the address difficult to read, that is treated as a site-quality issue as well as a policy-page issue.