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Cookies & storage

Cookie Policy

How Consumer Rating uses cookies and local storage to remember your preferences and keep the site fast and reliable.

Last updated November 2026

01What cookies and local storage are

Cookies are small text files, and local storage is a similar store of small values, kept by your browser when you visit a website.

They let the site remember your choices, such as your theme or whether you have already answered the cookie notice, so it does not ask you again on every page.

02How we use them

We group what we store into a few small categories:

  • Strictly necessary: remembering your cookie choice, your theme and whether you have already subscribed, so notices are not shown again.
  • Performance & reliability: measuring page speed and errors so we can fix problems.
  • Anonymous analytics: counting how often guides and tools are used, without building a profile of you.

03Managing your preferences

You can accept or decline non-essential cookies in the cookie notice, and enable, block or delete cookies at any time in your browser settings.

If you clear strictly necessary storage, notices you have already answered may appear again.

04Third-party cookies & outbound links

Where an analytics or advertising service is enabled on AltFTool, it may set its own cookies under its own policy. Declining non-essential cookies in the notice limits these.

When you follow a link to another website, such as a manufacturer or a government safety agency, that website sets its own cookies.

Questions about cookies?

Email us for details about what we store and why.

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