Cookie Policy

Last updated: August 23, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Velopedia.com (“Velopedia”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website or use features such as My Garage.

For more information about the personal information Velopedia collects and how it is used, see the Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?

Cookies are small data files stored by a browser when a website is visited. Cookies can operate website features, maintain secure sessions, remember choices, measure website activity, improve performance, prevent abuse, and support advertising or affiliate tracking.

Velopedia and its service providers may also use related technologies such as local storage, pixels, web beacons, device identifiers, and server-side identifiers. This Policy refers to these technologies collectively as “cookies” where appropriate.

2. Essential and Security Cookies

Essential technologies support functions such as:

• Website operation and navigation
• Security, fraud prevention, and rate limiting
• Caching and performance
• Remembering privacy or consent choices
• Maintaining an authenticated My Garage session

After a member completes passwordless email sign-in, Velopedia uses a secure first-party session cookie to keep the private Garage available for up to 30 days. Signing out ends the current session. The single-use email sign-in link itself expires after approximately 20 minutes.

Essential cookies are used because they are necessary to provide a feature requested by the visitor or to protect the website. Blocking them may prevent My Garage, privacy choices, or other site functions from working correctly.

3. Analytics Technologies

Velopedia may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use the website.

Analytics information may include:

• Pages visited
• Approximate geographic region
• Browser and device information
• Referring website
• Time spent on pages
• Interactions with searches, Archive records, guides, reports, and tools
• Random or pseudonymous browser identifiers

This information helps Velopedia identify technical problems, understand traffic, and improve content, navigation, and website features.

Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store individual IP addresses, although IP information may be processed briefly to derive approximate geographic information and provide the service.

Learn more at:

• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
• Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

4. Advertising Technologies

If display advertising is enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, may place or read cookies or use web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to Velopedia or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to provide and measure personalized or non-personalized advertising. Other authorized advertising vendors or networks may use their own cookies and technologies as described in their policies.

You can manage Google advertising preferences or opt out of personalized advertising through Google My Ad Center.

Where required, advertising, analytics, and other nonessential technologies may be controlled through a consent or privacy-choice message. Rejecting nonessential cookies does not prevent Velopedia from using the essential first-party cookie needed when a member chooses to sign in to My Garage.

5. Affiliate and Marketplace Tracking

Velopedia participates in affiliate programs, including the eBay Partner Network.

Links to eBay may contain identifiers that allow eBay to recognize that a visitor was referred by Velopedia. When you click an eBay or other affiliate link, the external service may use cookies or similar technologies under its own policies to measure referrals, transactions, and commissions.

Velopedia does not control cookies placed after you leave Velopedia and visit an external website. Review the eBay User Privacy Notice.

6. Managing Cookies and Consent Choices

Most browsers allow you to:

• View or delete stored cookies
• Block cookies from specific websites
• Block some or all third-party cookies
• Receive a warning before a cookie is stored

Browser controls vary, and blocking cookies may affect website features or prevent certain services from operating correctly.

If Velopedia displays a consent or privacy-choice message, use it to manage available analytics and advertising choices. Where required, that message may also provide a way to withdraw or change a previous choice.

Browser privacy signals or legally recognized opt-out preference signals may be honored where required and technically supported.

7. Third-Party Services

Third-party providers control the cookies and technologies they operate. Their collection and use of information are governed by their own policies, settings, and applicable law.

Depending on the services enabled on Velopedia, these providers may include website-hosting, security, analytics, advertising, affiliate, email-delivery, and performance services. The complete Privacy Policy explains the categories of providers and information sharing in more detail.

8. Updates to This Policy

Velopedia may update this Cookie Policy as website features, My Garage, service providers, advertising systems, or legal requirements change.

Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

9. Contact

Questions about this Cookie Policy may be sent to:

info@velopedia.com