Cookie Notice

A cookie is a small file a website stores on your device. startLdrive uses cookies only to make the site work and remember your preferences. We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies, and our visitor statistics set no cookies at all.

Cookies we set

• Session / authentication — keeps you signed in as you move between pages. Strictly necessary; expires when you sign out or after a period of inactivity.
• Functional preferences — remembers small UI choices (for example, a collapsed section) so the site behaves consistently. No personal information.
• State preference (sd_state, Australian deployment only)— remembers which Australian state you’re viewing instructors for, so you aren’t asked again. The first time you visit, we work out your approximate state from your IP address; that lookup runs on startLdrive’s own server against a local database, no request leaves our server to do it, and your IP address itself is never stored or shared. You can change the state at any time from the instructor search page. First-party and functional; lasts 12 months. IP location data by DB-IP, used under CC BY 4.0.
• Nearest city (sd_city, Australian deployment only)— remembers which of the cities we have local pages for you’re closest to, so we can point you to driving lessons there. It comes from the same one-off, on-server location lookup as the state preference above and holds only the city’s name (or “none”). Choosing “Not in this city?” clears it. First-party and functional; lasts 12 months.

Because these are strictly necessary or purely functional, we don’t show a consent banner. If we ever add analytics or marketing cookies, we will ask for your consent first and update this notice.

Visitor statistics

To see which pages people find useful, we run our own copy of Umami, an open-source analytics tool, on this website’s own server. It sets no cookiesand doesn’t follow you between sites: it records the page visited, the site that linked you, and rough details like country, browser and whether you’re on a phone or a computer. Nothing is shared with an advertising network, and we can’t identify you from it.

Third-party services

Payments are handled by Stripe, on their own checkout page. Stripe may set its own cookies there, governed by Stripe’s cookie policy — we don’t control or read them. Fonts are self-hosted, so no third-party font cookies are set.

Managing cookies

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking the session cookie will stop you from signing in.

Contact

Questions: use our contact form. See also our Privacy Policy.