Privacy notice

• No advertising networks. Google Analytics and its cookies only if you allow it; otherwise none.
• Contributing stores what you send: a name and an email address with a photo, an email address with a report only if you give one.
• Page views and a few actions are counted as daily totals, without identifying anyone.
• An email address you leave for updates is used only to send them.
• Saved photos, saved cars and recent searches stay in your browser.
• Most photographs load from Wikimedia Commons or Flickr, which receive your network address.

This notice covers the Car Interfaces website (“the site”). “We” and “us” mean the operator of Car Interfaces, Kiryl Zhukouski, an individual, who decides how the data described here is used. You can read the whole site without an account and without giving us any information about yourself.

A photo. When you upload a photo we store the photo, the car and photo type you choose, the caption, year and market if you add them, the name to credit and your email address. Once an editor approves the photo, the name is shown next to it as the credit. The email address is never shown. We use it to write to you about the photo, to recognise your request if you ask us to remove it, and to limit how many photos one sender can have waiting for review.

We store a resized copy of the photo, not the file you sent. The copy carries none of the data a camera or phone embeds in a file, such as the location, the device and the date.

A correction, a suggestion or a button count. We store what you write, the page it is about and the source link if you give one. An email address is optional. If you give one, we use it only to reply, and it is never shown.

How long. We keep these records while the photo is in the archive or the report is on file, for moderation and for the credit. A declined photo’s file is deleted; its record stays, so that editors can see what was declined and why. To have your details deleted, write to 3877957@gmail.com from the address you used, or include the link to the photo or page.

Where photo upload is not open, photographs reach the archive through Wikimedia Commons. What you upload there is covered by Wikimedia’s own policy, linked below.

The forms, the editors’ sign-in and the usage counts limit how much one connection can send in a set time. To keep count, the site stores a keyed hash of your network address (IP address) with a counter for each of them. The address itself is never stored, the hash is never stored with a usage count, and it cannot be turned back into the address without a secret key that only the site holds.

A counter covers one hour at most. Counters more than a day old are deleted as the site is used.

The site uses no advertising network, tracking pixels or social media widgets. It does not build profiles of its visitors and does not sell personal data. One sponsor at a time may be named on the Button Census and in the email: a line of text with a link, marked as a sponsor. It sets no cookie and loads nothing from the sponsor’s site, and the sponsor receives no data about you.

Google Analytics is used only if you allow it. The first time you visit, a bar at the foot of the page asks; until you choose “Allow”, nothing is requested from Google and no Analytics cookie is set. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, that is taken as “no” and you are not asked. If you allow it, Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser (their names begin with “_ga”) and receives the pages you open, roughly where you are, and what kind of device and browser you use, so that we can see how the site is read. Advertising features are switched off. Google processes this data as its own policy describes: Google privacy policy.

You can change your answer at any time with “Analytics choice” at the foot of every page. Choosing “No thanks” after an earlier “Allow” removes the Analytics cookies from your browser.

The site counts page views and a few actions (search, save, filter, compare, opening a tab, following a link to another site, sending an email form, downloading a data file) as daily totals per page or action. It uses no cookies and no visitor or session identifiers for this, and no IP addresses are stored. Nothing is sent when your browser’s Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal is on.

Search words that return nothing are counted, so editors know which cars to add.

If you leave your email address for updates, we store that address and use it only to send you those updates.

If you fill in the interest form on the Data page, we store what you tell us there (your email address and, if you give them, your role, the tools you would use, the price you name and your note) and use it only to write to you about that.

To be removed, use the form at Stop the emails, which deletes your address and your interest-form answers at once, or reply to one of our emails, or write to 3877957@gmail.com from the address you signed up with.

Saved photos, saved cars, recent searches and recently opened results are kept in your browser’s local storage, on your device only. They are not sent to us, and clearing the site’s data in your browser removes them.

Your answer to the Analytics question is kept there too. The site itself sets no cookies for visitors: the only cookies are those of Google Analytics, if you allow it, and the sign-in session of an editor, set when an editor signs in to the moderation page.

Most photographs are not stored on this site. Your browser loads them directly from Wikimedia Commons (upload.wikimedia.org) and, for a few, from Flickr (live.staticflickr.com). Those services receive your network address and browser details, as any website you visit does, and their own policies apply: the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and the Flickr privacy policy.

Makers’ press photographs, close-ups cut from wider photographs, maker logos and fonts are served by this site. Links to an original file or to a source open the other website only when you follow them.

The site is hosted by Vercel, which processes your network address and browser details to deliver the pages. See the Vercel privacy policy.

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask for a copy, have it corrected or deleted, and object to how we use it. Write to 3877957@gmail.com. For a photo or a report, write from the email address you used or include the link, so that we can find it.

You can ask us to remove a photo you uploaded at any time, as the contributor licence describes.

Where a data protection law such as the GDPR applies to you, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

We may update this notice as the site changes. When we make a material change, we note it at the top of this page.

Questions about this notice or about your data: 3877957@gmail.com