Cookie Policy
Last updated: 29 August 2026
Why a comparison site needs cookies at all
A cookie is a short line of text a site leaves with your browser and reads back later. It is a label rather than a program, and nothing in it can execute on your machine. Its only power is memory: without one, a page has no idea that the visitor reading it is the same person who entered a pickup date two clicks earlier. On a site whose whole job is to hold a search about Dubrovnik steady while you compare cars against it, that memory is the difference between a working tool and a form you keep refilling.
Some of what is stored comes from carhiredubrovnik.com itself, which makes it a first party cookie. Some is set by a service we rely on to run the booking flow, which makes it a third party cookie. Both are listed below, and the distinction matters mainly because your browser can block the second kind separately from the first.
The four categories in use
Everything this site stores falls into one of four groups. The lifetimes shown are the maximum for the category, and a cookie that is no longer needed is dropped before it reaches them.
| Category | What it does here | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Carries your dates and pickup point between pages, protects the forms against automated abuse, and keeps the search itself functioning. | The visit, or up to 1 day |
| Preferences | Remembers the language you chose and the filters you left applied, so a second visit starts where the first one finished. | Up to 12 months |
| Measurement | Counts visits and paths through the site as totals, showing which guides are read and where people leave, never who they are. | Up to 24 months |
| Referral | Notes that a booking started on this site so the supplier can settle the commission that pays for it, at no cost to you. | Up to 90 days |
Cookies that expire, and cookies that linger
The essential group is mostly made of session cookies, which your browser discards the moment you close it. The other three groups are persistent: they sit on your device for the period in the table, then expire on their own. Nothing renews itself silently. A persistent cookie that has expired is only written again if you come back and the category is still permitted.
The one third party involved
LocalRent supplies the search results and the reservation window on this site. Its script does not load with the page. It loads at the point you open a booking, and it can set its own cookies from that moment, which is what the referral row above describes. Should any other outside service ever set a cookie here, it goes into whichever of the four rows fits it, and that provider's own policy governs how the cookie behaves.
Switching them off in your browser
Cookie control lives in the browser, not on this page, and it applies to every site you visit rather than this one alone. In current versions the setting sits roughly here:
- Chrome keeps the controls in its settings, under privacy, with third party cookies listed on their own
- Safari gathers cookie blocking and tracking prevention onto a single privacy screen
- Firefox files them in settings, under the heading for Enhanced Tracking Protection
- Edge groups them with site permissions, where stored cookies can also be deleted outright
- Any browser at all: a private window throws away everything it stored when you close it
Blocking the preferences, measurement or referral categories costs you nothing on this site. You lose the remembered language, we lose the signal telling us which guides deserve a rewrite, and a supplier may not be able to attribute your booking. Blocking essential cookies is different: the search form and the booking window stop working, so the site becomes something you can only read.
Do Not Track and similar signals
Some browsers still send a Do Not Track header. No agreed standard was ever settled for what a website must do when it arrives, most publishers ignore it, and this site does not alter its behaviour on the strength of it. The browser controls listed above are the reliable route, and they work whether or not the signal is switched on. Where a newer signal such as Global Privacy Control does gain a settled legal meaning in the European Union, we will honour it and say so on this page.
Updates and questions
This page is rewritten whenever a category changes or a provider is added or dropped, and the date under the title marks the current version. What happens to personal data once it has been collected, and the rights you hold over it, are covered separately.
Anything about cookies on carhiredubrovnik.com that this page does not answer can go to [email protected], and Ride Dubrovnik will reply.