Cookie Policy

Most cookie policies describe a machine the site owner hopes you will not inspect. This one can be checked in about thirty seconds: open the developer tools in any browser, load a page of carhirealanya.com and look at the cookie list. Loading a page from this domain sets no cookie at all. Our server sends no instruction to store one, which is why there is no consent banner in the corner asking permission for things that do not exist. What the site does use is a small amount of browser storage for the car search, plus whatever our booking partner sets once a visitor actually starts booking.

Cookies and browser storage are not the same thing

A cookie is a scrap of text a site asks the browser to keep and then hand back with every later request, which is what makes cookies useful for tracking. Local storage is a different mechanism: the browser keeps it, but it is never attached to a request automatically, so nothing leaves the device unless a page deliberately reads it and sends it. Everything this site stores by itself is in the second category, and it exists for speed rather than for recognition.

What actually gets stored, item by item

Your last car search

Where: Browser local storage, set by this site

Lifetime: Five minutes, then discarded automatically

Holds the list of cars that came back for your dates so that opening a second page does not repeat the same lookup. At most four searches are kept and the oldest is dropped. Nothing in it is sent anywhere on its own.

Booking widget cookies

Where: Set by our booking technology partner, not by us

Lifetime: Set by that partner, typically weeks

Appear only after a visitor interacts with the page and the booking widget loads. They tie a part-finished reservation back to the right car and credit the booking to this site. They fall under the partner policy linked from the booking step, not under this one.

Your chosen language

Where: Nowhere, it lives in the address

Lifetime: Not stored at all

Each language has its own URL, so switching language changes the address rather than writing a preference into the browser. Bookmark the address and the language comes back with it.

Advertising and tracking

Where: Not present on this site

Lifetime: Not applicable

There is no advertising network, no retargeting pixel, no social media embed and no analytics product on any page here. Nothing follows a visitor from this site to another one.

The booking widget loads late, on purpose

The script that powers the booking step is heavy, so it is not requested when a page opens. It waits for the first real sign of use: a pointer moving, a tap, a scroll or a key press. Someone who opens a page about car hire in Alanya, reads it and leaves never triggers it, and so never receives anything from our booking partner at all. Once it does load, that partner can set its own cookies, and from that point the partner's policy applies alongside this page. We do not control what it stores and we do not read it.

Turning it off, and what breaks if you do

Every browser can block or clear storage for a single site, usually under a privacy or site data menu, and nothing here objects to that. Blocking storage for carhirealanya.com costs a visitor nothing but a little speed: the search simply runs fresh every time instead of reusing the copy from a minute ago. Blocking third party cookies is different, because the booking handover may rely on them to keep a reservation attached to the car it started from, so a booking begun with them blocked can fail at the supplier end. Clearing site data removes the cached search immediately, with no trace left on our side, since it never reached our side.

Private windows and phones

A private or incognito window does not block anything while it is open; it throws the storage away when the window closes, so a half finished search on the way to Alanya will not be waiting afterwards. A mobile browser behaves the same way. An app that opens from a link on this site, a map or an airline app for instance, keeps its own storage under its own rules, which this policy does not reach.

If this ever changes

The claim that this site sets no cookie of its own is only worth something while it stays true. If we ever add a measurement tool or anything else that stores data for a purpose beyond making the page work, this page gets rewritten first and a consent notice appears before the tool is switched on, not after. The date at the top is the honest way to check how long that has held.

Spotted something this page does not explain? Write to [email protected]. The Privacy Policy explains the data side, the Terms and Conditions explain the booking side.