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What Matchanic stores in your browser, and why.
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In short
We only store what’s needed to sign you in and to remember a few things as you use the site, such as your last search on Find jobs or a reply you’ve started but not sent. We don’t use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and we don’t load scripts from other companies. Our fonts are served from our own site.
Cookies that sign you in
You only get these once you sign up, log in or ask for a password reset link. In each name, “<project>” stands for a code that identifies our database.
sb-<project>-auth-token
- Set by
- Supabase, our sign-in provider, on this site
- What it’s for
- Keeps you signed in as you move between pages. It holds your sign-in session, not your password. When it’s too long for one cookie, it’s split into parts ending .0, .1 and so on.
- How long
- Removed when you log out. Otherwise up to 400 days, renewed while you use the site.
sb-<project>-auth-token-code-verifier
- Set by
- Supabase, our sign-in provider, on this site
- What it’s for
- A one-off security code, set when you sign up or ask for a password reset link, so this browser can finish the request when you open the link we email you. Each request can also add a cookie whose name ends
-flow-<request>-code-verifier, where “<request>” is a code for that request, and one ending-flows-code-verifierkeeps a list of them. - How long
- Removed when you log out. Otherwise up to 400 days.
Saved in your browser
These are kept in your browser’s own storage rather than in cookies. They stay on your device: they aren’t sent to us. In these names, “<garage>” stands for a code for your garage, “<account>” for a code for your account (or, if you run a garage, for that garage), and “<quote>” for a code for the quote a conversation is about.
mychanic:find-jobs:<garage>
- Set by
- Find jobs, a page for garages
- What it’s for
- Remembers your last search (postcode, distance, job types and car makes), so the page opens where you left it. Your browser may also hold an older copy named
mychanic:find-jobs, saved by an earlier version of this page. - How long
- Until you clear this site’s data in your browser.
mychanic:find-jobs-map
- Set by
- Find jobs, a page for garages
- What it’s for
- Remembers whether you showed or hid the map.
- How long
- Until you clear this site’s data in your browser.
mychanic:return-job
- Set by
- Dashboard and Find jobs, pages for garages
- What it’s for
- Remembers which job you opened from the list, so when you go back, the list opens at that job.
- How long
- Until you next open the Dashboard or Find jobs, and always when you close the tab.
mychanic:lastThread
- Set by
- Messages, a page for drivers and garages
- What it’s for
- Remembers which conversation you last opened, so your place in the list is kept when you go back to your messages.
- How long
- Until you close the tab, or sooner.
mychanic:draft:<account>:<quote>
- Set by
- Messages, a page for drivers and garages
- What it’s for
- Keeps a reply you’ve started but not sent, so it’s still in the box if you open another page and come back. It holds the words you’ve typed.
- How long
- Until you send the reply or clear the box, and always when you close the tab.
mychanic:flash
- Set by
- The sign-up and password reset pages
- What it’s for
- Shows a one-off note on the page you go to next: “Password updated. You’re logged in.” after a password reset, or “Your account is set up and you’re logged in.” after you sign up.
- How long
- Removed when you close the note or move on, and always when you close the tab.
admin-back:job, admin-back:garage
- Set by
- Matchanic’s admin pages, used only by people at Matchanic
- What it’s for
- Remembers which list or search someone at Matchanic came from, so Back returns to it.
- How long
- Until you close the tab.
Other sites your browser contacts
- The maps garages use on Find jobs and on a job’s page load their images from OpenStreetMap’s servers, which receive your IP address. The OpenStreetMap Foundation’s privacy policy covers what they do with it.
- When a postcode is entered, and when a garage looks at jobs on Find jobs or a job’s page, your browser looks postcodes up with postcodes.io, which receives the postcodes and your IP address.
- Signing in, and reading or saving anything on the site, goes to our database provider, Supabase. Garage photos and certificates load from there too.
Our privacy notice lists every company that handles information for us.
Why there’s no cookie banner
Everything listed here either signs you in or remembers something you did on the site. None of it tracks you or is used for advertising, so we don’t ask for consent with a banner. If we ever want to add anything that isn’t needed for the site to work, we’ll ask for your consent first.
Clearing cookies and settings
Logging out removes the sign-in cookies. You can delete any of these at any time in your browser’s settings. If you delete the sign-in cookies, you’ll be logged out.
Questions
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