Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy explains how Scuffs N Wheels uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and use personal information more generally.

Last updated: 22 August 2026

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites can place on your device when you visit them.

They can be used for a number of purposes, such as:

  • Making a website work correctly
  • Remembering choices or preferences
  • Protecting forms and websites from spam or abuse
  • Understanding how visitors use a website
  • Measuring website performance

Some cookies are set directly by the website you are visiting. These are known as first-party cookies.

Others may be set by third-party services used by the website, such as Google. These are known as third-party cookies.

How We Use Cookies

Scuffs N Wheels uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:

  • Website functionality
  • Remembering your cookie consent choices
  • Website security and spam prevention
  • Google Analytics
  • Google reCAPTCHA

We do not currently use the website to operate a marketing mailing system or intentionally place advertising cookies for Scuffs N Wheels marketing campaigns.

Cookie Consent

When you first visit the website, you are presented with a cookie consent banner.

This allows you to:

  • Accept non-essential cookies
  • Reject non-essential cookies
  • Manage your cookie preferences

Cookies that are not strictly necessary should not be used until the appropriate consent has been given.

You can also change your cookie preferences after your initial choice using the consent controls available on the website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies are necessary for the website to function properly or to provide features you have specifically requested.

These may include cookies used to:

  • Remember your cookie consent choices
  • Maintain website security
  • Support essential WordPress functionality
  • Protect forms from spam and abuse

Strictly necessary cookies do not normally require consent because the website cannot provide the relevant function properly without them.

Cookie Consent Preferences

The website’s consent system may store information on your device to remember whether you have accepted, rejected or customised your cookie preferences.

This prevents the website from asking you to make the same choice every time you visit.

The exact name and duration of these cookies may depend on the consent technology being used on the website.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics through Google Site Kit.

Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use the website.

This may include information about:

  • Which pages are visited
  • How visitors move around the website
  • How long visitors spend on pages
  • The type of browser or device being used
  • Approximate geographic information
  • How visitors arrived at the website
  • Website interactions and performance

Google Analytics is used for website measurement and improvement.

Analytics cookies are treated as non-essential and are controlled through the website’s consent system.

Where consent is required, Google Analytics should not store analytics cookies until you have accepted the relevant cookie category.

Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics may use cookies including:

_ga

Used to help Google Analytics distinguish between website visitors and measure website usage.

A typical retention period may be up to approximately two years, depending on the website’s Analytics configuration.

_ga_XXXXXXXXXX

Google Analytics may create an additional cookie beginning with ga followed by an identifier specific to the website’s Analytics property.

This may be used to maintain session information and measure website activity.

The exact cookie name depends on the Google Analytics configuration.

Google may change the cookies used by Analytics from time to time, so the exact cookies present may vary.

Google Consent Mode

The website’s Google setup may use Google Consent Mode in connection with the cookie consent system.

Consent Mode allows Google services to adjust how they operate depending on the choices you make through the website’s consent banner.

For example, when analytics consent has not been granted, Google Analytics should not store Analytics cookies that require consent.

Google may still receive limited technical information or consent signals where permitted by its systems and applicable law.

Google Search Console

Scuffs N Wheels also uses Google Search Console through Google Site Kit.

Search Console helps us understand how the website appears and performs in Google Search.

Google Search Console itself is not used by Scuffs N Wheels to place advertising or marketing cookies on website visitors.

The information available to us through Search Console is primarily aggregated information about searches, impressions, clicks and website performance.

Google reCAPTCHA

The quote form uses Google reCAPTCHA v2, including the visible “I’m not a robot” verification.

reCAPTCHA is used to help:

  • Identify automated submissions
  • Prevent spam
  • Protect website forms
  • Reduce abuse and fraudulent activity

Google may use cookies and other technologies when reCAPTCHA is loaded or used.

These may be used to assess whether a visitor appears to be a genuine person rather than an automated system.

Depending on Google’s systems and whether you are signed into a Google account, reCAPTCHA-related cookies may include cookies such as:

  • _GRECAPTCHA
  • NID
  • Other Google security or preference cookies

The exact cookies used by Google may change over time.

Google may also process information such as your IP address, browser information, device information and interactions with the reCAPTCHA service.

Forminator

The Free Quote form on this website is provided using Forminator.

Forminator is used to collect the information you voluntarily enter into the quote form.

The form itself is not used by Scuffs N Wheels for behavioural advertising.

Cookies or technical storage may nevertheless be used where necessary for form functionality, security, spam protection or integration with services such as Google reCAPTCHA.

For more information about how information submitted through the form is used, please see our Privacy Policy.

WordPress

This website is built using WordPress.

WordPress may use cookies for technical or administrative purposes.

For ordinary website visitors, these are generally connected with website functionality rather than advertising.

Additional WordPress cookies may be used for logged-in website administrators and are not normally relevant to ordinary visitors.

WhatsApp Business

The website contains links that allow you to contact Scuffs N Wheels through WhatsApp Business.

Simply displaying a standard link to WhatsApp does not necessarily mean that WhatsApp places cookies through this website.

However, if you click a WhatsApp link, you leave this website and interact with WhatsApp or Meta’s services.

WhatsApp and Meta may then use cookies, device information and other technologies according to their own privacy and cookie practices.

Third-Party Cookies and Services

Some third-party services used by this website may set or access cookies or similar technologies.

These may include:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google reCAPTCHA
  • Google services associated with Site Kit
  • WhatsApp or Meta after you choose to follow a WhatsApp link

These providers control their own technologies and may update the cookies they use from time to time.

Their own privacy and cookie policies apply to their processing.

How Long Cookies Are Stored

Different cookies have different lifespans.

Some cookies are session cookies, which are removed when you close your browser.

Others are persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.

The period for which a cookie remains on your device depends on:

  • The purpose of the cookie
  • The service that placed it
  • The settings used by the website or third-party provider
  • Your browser settings
  • Whether you delete it manually

Where possible, cookies should not be retained for longer than reasonably necessary for their purpose.

How to Change Your Cookie Preferences

You can use the website’s cookie consent controls to:

  • Accept optional cookies
  • Reject optional cookies
  • Change your cookie preferences

Your browser also allows you to control cookies.

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View stored cookies
  • Delete individual cookies
  • Delete all cookies
  • Block certain types of cookies
  • Block cookies from particular websites
  • Prevent cookies being stored altogether

The exact steps vary depending on the browser you use.

Please be aware that blocking all cookies may affect some website functions.

Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Controls

Some browsers and devices provide additional privacy features or signals.

The way websites and third-party services respond to these features can vary.

The main way to control non-essential cookies on this website is through the website’s cookie consent controls and your browser settings.

Changes to This Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time.

This may happen if:

  • The website changes
  • New plugins or services are introduced
  • Existing services change how they use cookies
  • Cookie or privacy law changes
  • The website’s consent system changes

The latest version will be published on this page and the Last updated date will be changed where appropriate.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy or how cookies are used on the Scuffs N Wheels website, please contact:

Matthew Howes trading as Scuffs N Wheels

Email: mattyhowes85@gmail.com

For more information about how Scuffs N Wheels handles personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.