Who we are
Our website address is: https://tunerzine.com and https://garage.tunerzine.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use tunerzine.com, such as which pages are read most. Analytics cookies are only set if you consent through our cookie banner, and you can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the banner’s preferences. The garage at garage.tunerzine.com contains no analytics or advertising trackers.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Tunerzine Garage accounts
Our community garage lives at https://garage.tunerzine.com. If you create a garage account, this is what happens with your data:
Signing in. Garage accounts use Google Sign-In only. There are no passwords, and we never see or store a password. From Google we receive only your name (to prefill your display name) and a permanent account identifier. We do not request, receive, or store your email address or your Google profile photo.
What we store. Your chosen handle, display name, bio, and any content you add to your garage: vehicles, photos, mod lists, social links, and likes you give to builds. If you upload a profile photo, we store that too. All of this is content you provide directly. The garage does not log your browsing activity, location, or IP address.
Cookies. The garage sets a single cookie used to keep you signed in. It contains no personal data and is removed when you sign out.
Visibility. Garage profiles and the vehicles in them are public. Anyone can view your profile page and builds.
Retention and deletion. Your garage content is stored until you remove it. You can delete individual photos or vehicles at any time, or delete your entire account from your garage dashboard, which permanently removes your profile, content, and images.
Where your data lives. The garage runs on Cloudflare infrastructure; your account data and images are stored and processed by Cloudflare on our behalf.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Garage accounts and their content are retained until you delete them, as described in the Tunerzine Garage accounts section above.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Garage account holders can exercise their deletion right instantly and without contacting us, using the delete account option in the garage dashboard.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Our sites are served through Cloudflare’s global network, which processes visitor traffic to deliver the pages.