GlobalAutoRegs.com (GAR) collects a minimum of information about its visitors: enough to run the site, to let users customize it, and to understand in broad terms how it is used. GAR does not sell or share individual user information with anyone, carries no advertising, and does no marketing. The site is a free service to the vehicle regulatory community, funded by the voluntary contributions of its users.

You may sign up with an email address and a password. The address is kept in a database that is not accessible to the public and is used to identify your account, to send you the links that sign you in or reset your password, and for the daily digest described below. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes, so neither GAR nor anyone else can read them; you can change yours from Settings while signed in, or through a reset link sent to your address.

Your account records what you choose to monitor — regulations, groups and contributors — so that the site can show you their documents and meetings. GAR looks at these choices in aggregate, to see which subjects draw the most interest; it does not examine the choices of individual users.

Settings lists the browsers where you are signed in and lets you sign out of all of them; Delete my account, on the same page, removes your account and its selections.

GAR sends email only to run your account: sign-in and password-reset links, and a daily digest of new documents on the subjects you monitor, sent only when there is something to report. Every digest carries a link that stops the digests at once. Users may also ask GAR to be removed by writing to the address below.

GAR sets only the cookies the site needs: a session cookie, a sign-in cookie for users who signed in on that browser, and a cookie recording that you have seen the cookie notice. Audience measurement runs without cookies. The cookies page lists each one with its purpose and how long it lasts, and what the browser stores for the third parties named below.

GAR uses Matomo, hosted for GAR by its maker in the European Union, to count visits. It is configured without cookies and honours the browser's Do Not Track setting. It records the pages visited, the broad geographic region, and the device and browser used, so that GAR can see how the site is used, find what is broken and improve it. GAR looks at this information only in aggregate.

When you open a GAR page your browser fetches fonts from Google Fonts and scripts from Cloudflare's cdnjs and from DataTables, which shows those services your IP address as any web request does; it also reports page-loading performance to New Relic, which GAR uses to watch the site's health. The sign-up page uses Google reCAPTCHA to tell people from automated sign-ups, and Google sets a cookie of its own there. None of these services is given your name, your email address or what you monitor.

The web server records each request with the IP address it came from, the page asked for, the time and the browser's description of itself, as web servers do, to keep the site running and to defend it against automated abuse: a network that asks for the same closed pages too often is refused them for an hour. Web server logs are kept for fourteen days and the application's own log for a few days; counts used for the abuse limits last an hour.

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation you may ask GAR what information it holds about you, have it corrected or deleted, and object to its use. Most of this you can do yourself from Settings; for the rest, or for any question about this notice, write to contact@globalautoregs.com. You may also complain to the data-protection authority of the country where you live. The GAR website is hosted in France, whose authority is the CNIL.

This notice was last revised on 20 October 2026. GAR will revise it when the site changes what it collects.