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Privacy Policy
Forecourt Insider is an independent UK automotive information website providing practical advice and motor-trade insight in plain English.
Last reviewed: 27 August 2026The current position
Forecourt Insider does not operate user accounts, mailing lists, newsletter subscriptions, contact forms, vehicle enquiries, customer databases or visitor profiles. It does not intentionally ask readers to submit personal information through this website and does not sell visitor information.
Limited technical processing
Hosting and security infrastructure may process limited technical information such as an IP address, request time, requested page, browser or device information and security events to deliver the site, maintain reliability, prevent abuse and diagnose problems. Forecourt Insider has not added analytics, advertising tracking or marketing profiling.
Search
The guide search operates in the browser. Search terms are held only in temporary page state, are not submitted to Forecourt Insider and disappear when the page is closed or refreshed.
YouTube content
Selected Forecourt Insider pages can support embedded YouTube videos. The site uses a click-to-load approach: the external player is not requested merely because a reader opens the page. A locally controlled placeholder explains the privacy consequence before the reader chooses to play.
After deliberate activation, the player loads from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain where technically appropriate. Loading or playing a video may still cause information to be processed by Google or YouTube, and their own privacy terms apply. Privacy-enhanced mode does not mean that Google or YouTube processes no information.
Fonts, media and external links
Website fonts, brand assets and editorial images are served with the site. The current code contains no third-party advertising or analytics scripts. Following an external link takes the reader to another provider whose own privacy terms apply.
Owner and contact
The website owner is Richard Thorpe, based in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Contact Forecourt Insider at info@forecourtinsider.com. No residential address, personal telephone number or personal email address is published.