Cookies
Cookie policy
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This page lists the cookies used on motfiles.co.uk. The privacy policy explains the wider handling of data. You can change your mind at any time: .
Essential
motfiles_consent — first-party, lasts 180 days. Stores whether you accepted advertising cookies or essential cookies only. Set when you use the cookie banner. The site needs this to honour your choice.
motfiles_session — first-party, httpOnly, set only if you sign in to the private admin portal. Ordinary visitors never receive it.
The MOT lookup, garage and checklist do not set cookies. Saved cars use local storage in your browser, which is not a cookie and never leaves the device.
Advertising, only if you accept
If you choose “Accept advertising”, Google AdSense may set cookies on our pages to select and measure advertisements. Those cookies are Google’s, not ours. Typical names include NID, IDE and __gads. Lifetimes and purposes are described in Google’s cookie policy.
If you choose essential only, we do not load the AdSense library and those cookies are not set through this site.
How to refuse
Use the banner, or Cookie settings in the footer. You can also block cookies in your browser. Blocking all cookies will not stop the MOT lookup; it will stop us remembering a previous advertising choice, so the banner will appear again.
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