Effective Date / Last Updated: September 20, 2026

1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes how Southern Vehicle (“Southern Vehicle,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar browser technologies when you visit SouthernVehicle.com (the “Site”). It should be read together with the Southern Vehicle Privacy Policy, which describes in more detail the personal information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you.

2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website can store on, or associate with, a visitor’s browser or device. Cookies can support a range of functions, including keeping a site working properly, remembering preferences, supporting security, and helping site owners understand how visitors use a site.

Not every browser technology identified during a cookie scan is, technically, an HTTP cookie. Scanning tools can also detect other browser storage mechanisms, such as sessionStorage, which work differently from traditional cookies but can serve a similar purpose. Where that distinction applies below, we note it specifically.

3. How Southern Vehicle Uses Cookies
We use cookies and similar browser technologies for purposes that include: remembering the cookie-consent choices you have made, so we do not need to ask again on every visit; providing website functionality and convenience features; remembering certain search or navigation information, such as your most recent vehicle search results, to make it easier to return to them; supporting payment-related services used on the Site; and helping us understand how the Site and its services are used, where analytics technologies are in place.

We do not currently use cookies for advertising purposes on the Site. If that changes, this Cookie Policy will be updated to reflect it.

4. Cookie Categories
The cookies and similar technologies used on the Site currently fall into the following categories:
Necessary — technologies required to enable basic Site functionality and the cookie-consent mechanism itself.
Functional — technologies that provide convenience or enhanced functionality but are not strictly required for the Site to work.
Analytics — technologies used to help us understand Site usage, performance, or how a service is being interacted with.

You can manage non-essential categories through the Southern Vehicle cookie-consent controls described in Section 6 below.

5. Cookies and Browser Storage Currently Identified
The following cookies and browser-storage technologies are currently used on the Site:

cookieyes-consent
Category: Necessary
Provider/source: CookieYes
Duration: 1 year
Purpose: Remembers the visitor’s cookie-consent selections so the Site can respect those choices and avoid repeatedly asking for consent.

wpEmojiSettingsSupports
Category: Necessary
Source: WordPress Core
Duration: Browser session (sessionStorage)
This item is stored in the browser’s sessionStorage rather than as a traditional HTTP/browser cookie.
Purpose: Stores the result of WordPress’s built-in test of whether a visitor’s browser can render certain emoji characters. It contains browser-support true/false values and a timestamp. It is not used for behavioral tracking.

vehica_results
Category: Functional
Source: Vehica (the Site’s theme)
Duration: 1 day
Purpose: Stores the visitor’s most recent vehicle search/results URL, to make it easier to navigate back to search results.

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Category: Analytics
Source: WooPayments (WooCommerce Payments), via Automattic’s Jetpack Connection/Tracks library bundled with WooPayments.
Duration: Browser session
Purpose: An anonymous identifier associated with Automattic’s Tracks analytics, used in connection with WooPayments.

The cookies and browser-storage technologies used on the Site may change as Southern Vehicle adds, removes, or updates features and services. This Cookie Policy, and the cookie list maintained in our consent-management tool, may be updated accordingly.

6. Managing Cookie Preferences
You can accept, reject, or adjust applicable non-essential cookie categories at any time using the Southern Vehicle cookie-consent banner and preference controls, available on the Site.

Necessary technologies generally cannot be disabled through the consent tool, because they support essential Site functionality or the consent mechanism itself.

You may also be able to delete or block cookies through your browser’s own settings. Doing so may affect the availability or functioning of some Site features.

7. California Privacy
California residents may have additional privacy rights under applicable California law. These rights may include, where applicable, rights relating to access, correction, deletion, and certain uses or disclosures of personal information.

Not every cookie or browser technology used on a website constitutes a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California law.

For more information about the personal information Southern Vehicle collects, how it is used and disclosed, and the privacy rights and choices that may be available to you, please see our Privacy Policy.

8. Third-Party Services
Some functionality on the Site may involve technologies provided by third parties or service providers. This currently includes CookieYes (our cookie-consent management provider) and WooPayments/Automattic (used in connection with payment-related services). This Cookie Policy will be updated if additional third-party technologies are used on the Site.

9. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when Site functionality, cookies, service providers, or applicable legal requirements change. The “Effective Date / Last Updated” date at the top of this page identifies the current version of this Cookie Policy.

10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact Southern Vehicle at support@southernvehicle.com.