Privacy policy

This page explains in plain words what data is collected when you read Avtoshyna.info (avtoshyna.info), who processes it, why, and how you can control it.

Who is responsible for the data

The site is run by its author and owner, Serhii Maslov. He is the controller of the personal data covered by this page, as far as the site itself is concerned. For privacy requests, write to adavtomasla@gmail.com; the same address is given on the About the author page.

In brief

• The site has no registration, user accounts, comments, newsletters or forms in which you would have to enter a name, telephone number or e-mail address.
• The site's own code does not set cookies. Cookies and similar technologies are used by Google services: Google Analytics (visit statistics) and Google AdSense (advertising).
• For visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google first shows a consent message. Until you agree, cookies for analytics and advertising are not used.
• The site's server, like any web server, keeps technical request logs.
• The site owner does not sell visitors' data or pass it on to anyone else.

Server logs

With every request, the site's server records in its technical logs: your IP address, the date and time, the address of the page requested (including your search words if you use the site search, or tyre dimensions if you use the tyre size calculator), the address of the page you came from, details of your browser and device, and the server's response code.

These logs are needed to keep the site running, to find and fix errors, and to protect the site against attacks and abuse. They are not used for advertising and are not combined with other data to identify you. Only the site owner and the hosting provider on whose server the site runs have access to them.

Google Analytics

The site uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service from Google. It shows which articles are read, where visitors come from and on what devices, and this helps to improve the site.

For this purpose, the pages load Google's code (gtag.js). It may store cookies in your browser (for example _ga) and sends Google information about the pages viewed, the source of the visit, the type of device and browser, your approximate location (country, city), which Google works out from the IP address, and how you use the page. According to Google, Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. The site owner receives only summary statistics from Google, from which it is not possible to tell who you are.

How Google processes this data is described on the page “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”. You can opt out of Google Analytics on all websites with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Google AdSense advertising

On some pages the site shows advertising through Google AdSense (Auto ads). The site uses no other advertising networks, and advertising does not influence the content of the articles.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users, based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

When ads are served, Google and third parties (Google's advertising partners) may place and read cookies in your browser, and may use web beacons (pixels), device identifiers or IP addresses to collect information for serving and measuring ads, limiting how often an ad is shown, and preventing fraud. The list of Google's advertising partners is given in the consent message (see the next section).

Further information: “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”.

Consent for visitors from the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland

If you open the site from an EEA country (including Poland or Bulgaria), from the United Kingdom or from Switzerland, Google shows a certified consent message (Google's consent management platform). It names Google, its advertising partners and the purposes for which data is processed. You can agree, refuse, or choose individual purposes and individual vendors. The site has no cookie banner of its own.

Until you make a choice, the site asks Google not to use cookies for analytics and advertising (Google's consent mode). Without consent to personalisation, Google may show non-personalised or limited advertising, depending on the purposes you have agreed to. Your choice is stored in a cookie in your browser as a record of consent.

How to change or withdraw your consent. Click the “Privacy and cookie settings” link that Google's message adds at the bottom of the pages of the site that carry advertising, and make a new choice. Another way is to delete the cookies of avtoshyna.info in your browser: on your next visit Google will ask for your consent again.

Visitors from other countries, including Ukraine, do not see the consent message: Google Analytics and advertising work with their standard settings, and the advertising may be personalised. You can opt out of personalised advertising in the ways described below.

How to opt out of personalised advertising

• Google Ads Settings: turn off personalised advertising from Google.
• www.aboutads.info: opt out of personalised advertising from companies taking part in the Digital Advertising Alliance programme.
• www.youronlinechoices.eu: the European service for opting out of interest-based advertising.
• Browser settings: block or delete cookies. You will still see advertising, but it will not be personalised.

Colour theme

If you switch between the light and dark theme, your choice is kept in your browser's storage (localStorage) under the name theme. It is not sent anywhere and is needed only so that pages open in the theme you chose. You can remove it by clearing the site data in your browser settings.

Legal bases

• For visitors from the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google Analytics and advertising cookies work only with your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR). You can withdraw consent at any time; this does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
• The server's technical logs are kept on the basis of the site owner's legitimate interest in keeping the site running and secure (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• For visitors from other countries, including Ukraine, statistics and advertising work on the basis of the site owner's legitimate interest in developing the site and covering its costs from advertising, with regard to the Law of Ukraine “On Personal Data Protection”. You may object to such processing by using the opt-out methods described above.

Who receives the data, and transfers abroad

The data collected through Google Analytics and Google AdSense is received by Google (for users in the EEA and Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited; for others, Google LLC, USA) and, in the case of advertising, by Google's advertising partners as well. This data may be processed on servers outside your country, including in the United States; for such transfers Google applies the safeguards provided for by data protection law. How Google processes data is described in Google's Privacy Policy.

How long data is kept

• Technical server logs are kept for a limited time, as long as is needed for the operation and security of the site, and are then deleted or overwritten.
• Google Analytics data at the level of individual events is kept no longer than the period set in the property's settings (in Google Analytics 4, 2 or 14 months); summary reports may be kept longer.
• Advertising data and cookie lifetimes are determined by Google under its own rules: how Google retains data and how Google uses cookies.

Your rights

Under the GDPR (and the similar laws of the United Kingdom and Switzerland) and the Law of Ukraine “On Personal Data Protection”, you have the right to:

• know what data of yours is processed, and obtain access to it;
• require inaccurate data to be corrected;
• require data to be erased or its processing to be restricted;
• object to processing, including for advertising;
• receive your data in a convenient format (the right to data portability);
• withdraw your consent at any time;
• lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country (in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights).

The site does not know your name, telephone number or e-mail address, and does not link its technical records to any particular person. For this reason, most rights concerning analytics and advertising data are easiest to exercise through Google's tools: the consent message, ads settings and the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. For data processed by the site itself, write to the site owner at adavtomasla@gmail.com.

Children

The site is intended for adult readers, drivers and car owners, and does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If new services appear on the site or the way data is processed changes, this page will be updated. The date of the last update is shown on this page.