Privacy
Car Statistics is an information service built on open data. It is designed to process as little data about you as possible, and no personal data about vehicles or their owners.
Vehicle data contains no personal information
All vehicle and statistics data shown is aggregated or anonymous and comes from open, public sources. We do not collect, store or display owner information, and the service deliberately has no licence-plate lookup. Technical specifications describe models, not individual vehicles.
Visit data
Like most websites, the web server keeps technical logs (such as IP address, time and the page requested) for operation, security and debugging. These are not used to identify individuals and are not kept longer than necessary.
Analytics and cookies (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand anonymous, aggregated use of the site (which pages are visited, approximate geography, device type). This requires your consent: the measurement script (gtag.js) is not downloaded at all until you press “Accept”. Before that action, no request, IP address or cookie is sent to Google or googletagmanager.com. This was audited and corrected on 2 August 2026; previously the script loaded regardless of your choice (Google Consent Mode “advanced”), which did not match this text.
If you consent, the cookies _ga and _ga_* are set to distinguish visits, and your IP address is anonymised before processing. The legal basis is consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). The data processor is Google Ireland Ltd.; data may be transferred to the USA under the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC). We do not use the data for advertising or profiling.
You can withdraw consent at any time using the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of every page. That clears your choice, stops measurement and brings the banner back. You can also clear cookies in your browser or install Google’s opt-out add-on.
Third parties and images
Car model photos come from Wikimedia Commons (CC-licensed). Until 2 August 2026 they were loaded directly from commons.wikimedia.org and upload.wikimedia.org, which set a unique identifier (WMF-Uniq, one-year lifetime) and a GeoIP cookie in your browser outside the consent banner. This has been removed: images are now fetched by our own server and delivered from this domain, so Wikimedia never sees you as a visitor and no third-party cookie is set.
We load no fonts, maps, videos, adverts or tracking pixels from any other third party. Apart from Google Analytics (after consent), no data leaves our own domain.
Your rights
The GDPR gives you the right to access, rectify and erase personal data about you. Since we do not build profiles or user accounts, we normally hold no personal data linked to you beyond the technical server logs and, with your consent, the anonymous analytics described above.
See also sources and method for how the data is collected, and about us.