Privacy Policy

DriveCost provides free vehicle running cost calculations and comparison tools. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be processed when you use the website.

DriveCost does not currently require user accounts and does not ask you to provide personal information such as your name, address or payment details in order to use the calculator.

Basic technical information may be processed automatically by our hosting or infrastructure providers, such as IP address, browser type, device information, requested pages, timestamps and other standard server log information.

Vehicle selections, country selections, driving distance and electricity price values are used to calculate estimates shown on the website.

DriveCost does not require these calculator inputs to be associated with your identity.

The main calculator remembers your vehicle, country, annual distance, electricity price and any custom fuel prices in your browser's local storage so you can continue on your next visit. These saved preferences stay on this device. Fuel prices are fetched again when you return. You can remove saved preferences by clearing this website's browser data.

DriveCost may use Google AdSense or other advertising services to display advertisements.

Advertising providers such as Google may use cookies, device identifiers or similar technologies to serve, measure and personalize advertising where permitted.

Where required by applicable law, users will be given appropriate choices regarding advertising cookies and consent before such technologies are used.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies may enable it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this website and other websites.

Users can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services through Google's privacy and advertising documentation.

DriveCost uses external data sources to provide vehicle specifications and energy price information. These services may receive technical requests from DriveCost servers when data is retrieved.

Vehicle information currently comes from FuelEconomy.gov / U.S. EPA, VCA and EEA data, while fuel price information may come from governmental or public energy data sources.

When you use the VIN Decoder, the VIN and optional model year are sent through DriveCost to NHTSA vPIC to retrieve specifications. The decoder does not save your VIN in browser storage or add it to the page URL. NHTSA processes the lookup under its own privacy practices.

DriveCost may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of websites operated by third parties.

Reasonable technical measures are used to protect the website and its infrastructure. However, no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

This Privacy Policy may be updated when DriveCost adds new features, advertising services, analytics tools or when legal requirements change.

The latest version will always be published on this page.