# How Auto Power Search uses cookies, preferences and personal data

We do not set our own tracking cookies in the app code. Required browser storage supports login, language, market, security and session settings. A small functional sidebar cookie may remember the sidebar state where that interface is used.

Account features store the data users choose to save: searches, saved searches, favorites, likes, hidden cars, alerts, messages and purchase details.

We use searches to understand needs, likes to understand preferences, and hidden/disliked cars to reduce clutter.

Users can browse without optional personalization, but saved and personalized account features require storing preferences.

Notifications may cover dealer replies, offers, price alerts, back-in-stock alerts, saved-search matches, favorite updates, purchase steps and secure online-purchase messages.

Dealer sharing happens only when the user contacts a dealer or confirms purchase intent, so the dealer can answer, prepare an offer, prepare a contract and continue the online purchase.

Users can delete their data at any time.