Cookie Policy

The preference record

The browser key and first-party cookie named dsg-consent-v1 contain essential, analytics, and advertising choices plus a timestamp. They do not contain your name, email, or message. The saved choice is valid for 12 months (365 days) and renewed when you save again. The cookie expires automatically; local storage has no native expiration and is cleaned when an expired record is next read.

Equal choices

Accept all, Necessary Only and Reject all have equal visual weight in the banner. The latter two leave both optional categories off and the reading library available. Essential preference storage remains on because it remembers the choice itself. Manage preferences opens individual category controls. Analytics and Advertising describe permissions for possible future functionality rather than a claim that such services currently run.

Browser signals and limited scripting

A Global Privacy Control signal turns both optional categories off even when an older local choice allowed them. Without JavaScript, the banner's accept and reject forms can save an essential cookie through the server; a Sec-GPC signal still takes priority there. The preferences panel uses scripting. If storage is blocked, a scripted choice can apply for the current visit without being remembered after navigation.

Changing a decision

Use Cookie Settings in the footer to reopen the inline panel without leaving the page, or use the opt-out control on the Do Not Sell or Share page. On this policy page, the link focuses the category controls below. Changing optional permissions is not a request to erase correspondence already sent by email. For that separate request, use the Contact form or write to info@driversoftguidegmail.com. New tracking technology would require an updated disclosure and consent-controlled loading before use.

Microsoft consent signals

Before optional scripts can load, the local consent queues default analytics and advertising storage to denied. A saved choice updates each category separately; no vendor network request is made before the relevant opt-in. Rejection and Necessary Only keep both categories denied. This site blocks the script itself, not just its cookies, because a vendor's cookie-denied mode can still send measurement requests. Withdrawing a category removes its tags, clears known first-party vendor cookies and reloads the page to stop already-running code. Microsoft-owned cookies on other domains can require browser controls to clear. No active tracking identifiers are configured at present.

Optional vendor cookies — currently inactive

Neither Microsoft Clarity nor Microsoft UET has an active identifier on this site. The rows below describe the consent-gated integrations, not cookies currently being set. If activated, their cookies can carry pseudonymous browser identifiers and interaction information; we do not describe such data as anonymous. Vendor policies and settings govern their lifetimes and processing, and must be reviewed before activation.

Browser-level controls

You can inspect or clear cookies and site storage through your browser's privacy settings. Clearing this site's essential preference record makes the banner appear again, and blocking storage can prevent a choice from persisting. It does not remove messages already sent by email. For Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, use the browser maker's cookie-setting instructions linked below.

• Chrome: Settings, Privacy and security, then the site-data and cookie controls.
• Firefox: Settings, Privacy & Security, then Cookies and Site Data.
• Safari: Settings, Privacy, then Manage Website Data; menu names vary between desktop and mobile.
• Edge: Settings, Privacy, search, and services, then cookie or site-data controls.

Cookie preferences

Essential preference storage stays on. Analytics and Advertising start off and can be considered separately. Saving these permissions does not install tracking technology; none is installed. Cookie Settings in the footer reopens controls on the current page, and focuses this permanent panel when you are already reading the Cookie Policy.

Cookies and local storage explained

A cookie is a small browser record sent with matching requests. Local storage is a record kept by a browser for a particular site and is not automatically sent with every request. This application uses both to remember the same category choices. Ordinary browser caching and history are separate browser features, not additional advertising identifiers installed by this site.

Stored items

These are the persistent browser records deliberately written by the application. There are no installed analytics or advertising tags and no additional application tracking keys.

Hosting statistics are separate

Replit's hosting infrastructure may process request information and traffic statistics to operate the site. Those server-side activities are different from optional analytics or advertising tags installed in a page. Our browser preference controls do not erase hosting logs or configure the hosting provider's statistics. See the provider's reference privacy information linked below.

Clearing both copies of a choice

You can inspect or clear cookies and local storage in your browser's site settings, block storage, or enable Global Privacy Control where available. Clearing one copy does not necessarily clear the other: a valid remaining cookie or local-storage record can restore the saved choice. Clear both to remove both copies. A preference is not shared between browsers or devices.