Last updated: November 10, 2026
The short version. ECN uses a small set of cookies to run the site, measure readership and show the ads that fund our journalism. Visitors in Europe, the UK and Switzerland are asked before advertising and analytics cookies are used; U.S. visitors can opt out of targeted advertising. You can change your choices at any time.
This Cookie Policy explains how ExoticCarNews.com (“ECN”, “we”, “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies, why we use them, and the choices you have. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels and scripts that read or write identifiers on your device. In this policy we call all of them “cookies”.
How we use cookies
We group the cookies used on ECN into five categories.
1. Strictly necessary
These keep the site working and secure: delivering pages through our content-delivery and security provider (Cloudflare), remembering display settings such as dark mode, and keeping the site stable under load. They cannot be switched off through our consent tools, but you can block them in your browser; parts of the site may then stop working.
2. Consent management
We use Google’s Privacy & messaging tool to ask for, record and respect your choices. It stores a record of your decisions so we do not ask you on every page. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent before advertising and analytics cookies are used. Visitors in U.S. states with privacy laws are offered an opt-out from the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising.
3. Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which stories are read, how readers find us and how the site performs. This helps us decide what to cover. Google Analytics sets cookies such as _ga and _ga_*. Where consent is required, these are only used after you agree.
4. Advertising
ECN is supported by advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance and, where permitted, show ads based on your interests. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to ECN and other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google at Google Ad Settings, and from many other participating vendors at aboutads.info. To learn more, see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
5. Security and forms
Our contact, news-tip and newsletter forms use Google reCAPTCHA to block spam and abuse, which sets cookies and reads information about your browser. Newsletter sign-ups are processed by Mailchimp. These run only on pages where the relevant form appears.
Your choices
- Change your consent: use the privacy or cookie settings link shown at the bottom of the page, or the consent message when it appears, to review or change your choices at any time.
- Browser controls: most browsers let you block or delete cookies. Blocking all cookies may affect how the site works.
- Ad personalization: use Google Ad Settings or aboutads.info, linked above.
- Global Privacy Control: where required by law, we treat a recognized browser opt-out signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when the tools we use change. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.
Contact
Questions about cookies or privacy can be sent through our contact page. Exotic Motors Media LLC, 2 University Plz, Suite 100, Hackensack, NJ.