True Motion Auto uses four cookie categories: strictly necessary (always on), functional, analytics, and advertising cookies. Only strictly necessary cookies load before you make a choice in our consent banner; the other three categories load only after you accept them, and you can change your choice at any time through the cookie settings link in the site footer.
Cookie categories at a glance
| Category | Purpose | Can you opt out? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Site security, load balancing, remembering consent choice | No — required for the site to function |
| Functional | Remembering preferences (e.g. saved calculator inputs) | Yes |
| Analytics | Understanding which pages are read and how | Yes |
| Advertising | Showing relevant ads, measuring ad performance | Yes |
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser to remember information between visits or pages. We also use similar technologies (local storage, pixels) that work the same way for the purposes of this policy.
Strictly necessary cookies
These keep the site functioning — remembering your cookie-consent choice, supporting basic security, and balancing server load. They cannot be switched off because the site would not work correctly without them, and they don't require consent under most cookie laws since they're essential to the service you're requesting.
Functional cookies
These remember preferences like previously entered calculator inputs or dismissed notices, so the site doesn't ask you to redo the same thing on every visit. Declining these simply means the site won't remember those preferences between sessions.
Analytics cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand aggregate patterns — which guides are read most, where visitors drop off, whether a page loads slowly — so we can prioritize what to update. Analytics data is used in aggregate; declining analytics cookies does not change what content you can access.
Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies (set by us or by third-party ad networks) are used to show relevant ads and measure how ad campaigns perform. Some advertising-related sharing enabled by these cookies may count as a "sale" or "share" of personal information under laws like California's CPRA — see our Do Not Sell or Share Page for that specific opt-out, which works independently of your cookie settings.
How to manage your cookie choices
- Use the cookie settings link in the site footer to open the preference panel at any time
- Toggle functional, analytics and advertising categories on or off individually
- Save your choice — it's remembered via a strictly necessary cookie so you're not re-prompted every visit
- You can also block cookies at the browser level, though this may affect functional and analytics cookies on other sites too
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as an opt-out of advertising cookies and of sale/share, consistent with our Privacy Policy — even before you interact with the cookie banner.
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Sources & further reading
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