Cookie Policy
Effective Date: August 18, 2026
Last Updated: August 18, 2026
Hollywood Mechanic, operated by HWOOD MECH, INC. (“Hollywood Mechanic,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies on hollywoodmechanic.com (the “Site”). This Cookie Policy explains what those technologies are, why they may be used, and the choices available to you. Please read this Cookie Policy together with our Privacy Policy and Website Terms.
1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device. Cookies may support core Site functions, remember settings, help us understand how visitors use the Site, support security, and, where enabled and permitted, help measure or improve marketing activity. Similar technologies can include local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits, and embedded-media technologies that recognize a browser or device, record preferences, or support a requested feature.
Cookies may be first-party cookies, which are set by Hollywood Mechanic, or third-party cookies, which are set by a service provider or embedded service. Cookies may also be session cookies, which generally expire when a browser session ends, or persistent cookies, which remain for a defined period or until deleted.
2. Cookie Categories We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are needed for the Site or a requested service to function. They may support security, fraud prevention, load balancing, session management, shopping-cart functions, account access, checkout steps, or the storage of a cookie choice. Because these technologies are necessary to deliver the Site or a service you request, disabling them may prevent portions of the Site from operating properly.
Functional and Preference Cookies
These cookies may remember choices such as language, display, consent, accessibility, or other Site preferences. They are used to make repeat visits more convenient and to provide features you request.
Analytics and Attribution Cookies
We may use analytics, traffic-source, performance, and attribution technologies to understand how visitors find and use the Site, identify technical issues, measure aggregate Site activity, and improve the visitor experience. During our most recent Site review, client-visible cookies with an sbjs_ prefix were present. Those identifiers are commonly used for session, source, and traffic-attribution context. Cookie names, providers, and retention periods may change as Site technology changes.
Embedded Media and Third-Party Content Cookies
When you view or interact with embedded third-party content, that provider may set or read cookies or similar technologies under its own policy. During our most recent Site review, the Site loaded a Vimeo player domain. Third-party media cookies may be set when an embedded video or related content is loaded or played, depending on your browser, settings, and the provider’s practices.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Where Hollywood Mechanic enables advertising, remarketing, social-media, conversion-measurement, or similar tools, those technologies may be used to measure campaign performance, limit repeated advertising, or present content that may be relevant to a visitor. We intend to obtain consent before placing non-essential cookies where required by applicable law. We may revise this Cookie Policy if our advertising or marketing technology changes.
3. Why We Use Cookies
Hollywood Mechanic may use cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the Site, maintain shopping and account functions, remember choices, respond to preference signals, understand traffic and Site performance, improve content and services, support embedded media, and, where permitted, measure marketing activity. We do not use cookies to intentionally collect more information than is reasonably necessary for the purpose described.
4. Your Choices and Cookie Controls
You can control cookies through your browser settings, including by blocking, deleting, or limiting cookies. Most browsers provide instructions for managing cookies in their help settings. If you block all cookies, some Site functions, including shopping-cart, account, checkout, video, or preference features, may not work as intended.
Where a cookie notice, consent banner, or preference-management tool is available on the Site, you may use that tool to make or revise choices about non-essential cookies. If a preference tool is not available or you need assistance with a privacy choice, use the Hollywood Mechanic Contact Page webform.
5. Global Privacy Control and Privacy Opt-Out Signals
Some browsers and extensions allow you to send a Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. Where applicable privacy law requires recognition of a valid browser-based opt-out preference signal, Hollywood Mechanic will process that signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, to the extent those concepts apply to our processing. Our current Privacy Policy states that we do not sell personal information to third parties. If our practices change, we will update the relevant notices and provide any required opt-out method.
Browser “Do Not Track” settings are not a uniform technical standard. Hollywood Mechanic evaluates browser-based privacy controls, including GPC, in accordance with applicable law and our then-current technology configuration.
6. Third-Party Services
Our Site may use third-party providers for hosting, e-commerce, payment processing, embedded media, security, communications, analytics, or other functions. Those providers may process cookies or similar technologies under their own privacy and cookie practices. Hollywood Mechanic does not control the independent privacy practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the notices provided by those third parties before interacting with their services.
7. Personal Information and Cookie Data
Cookie, device, browser, network, usage, and attribution information can be personal information under some privacy laws when it can reasonably be linked to a person, household, browser, or device. Our collection, use, disclosure, retention, and rights practices for personal information are described in our Privacy Policy.
8. California and Other U.S. Privacy Rights
California residents and residents of other jurisdictions with applicable privacy rights may have rights to request information about personal information, request deletion or correction where applicable, or exercise an opt-out right in circumstances covered by law. To submit a privacy request or ask a question about cookies, use the Hollywood Mechanic Contact Page webform. We may need to verify a request before responding. We will respond within the time required by applicable law.
California residents may also request information concerning certain disclosures for direct-marketing purposes under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, where applicable, by using the Hollywood Mechanic Contact Page webform.
9. International Visitors
If you access the Site from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our providers operate. Where applicable law requires prior consent for non-essential cookies, we intend to request that consent before activating those technologies. You may also have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a portable copy of certain personal information, subject to applicable law and verification requirements.
10. Children’s Privacy
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and Hollywood Mechanic does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through cookies or otherwise. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, use the Hollywood Mechanic Contact Page webform so that we can review and address the matter.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may revise this Cookie Policy when our technologies, cookie practices, legal requirements, or services change. We will post the revised policy on this page and update the Effective Date and Last Updated date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, cookie preferences, privacy rights, or our privacy practices, use the Hollywood Mechanic Contact Page webform. Please identify your request as a cookie or privacy inquiry so it can be directed appropriately.