Cookie Policy
Last updated: 13 September 2026
Why this site sets cookies
A cookie is a small text record that a website stores in your browser and reads back on a later request. It cannot run code and it cannot look at anything else on your device. What it can do is remember. Without one, the page showing cars for a week in Paphos would forget your dates the moment you opened a second page, and you would type them again. On a comparison site, that memory is most of what makes the tool usable.
A cookie set by paphosdrive.com itself is a first-party cookie. A cookie set by a service we use to run the booking flow is a third-party cookie. Both kinds appear below. The difference matters because your browser lets you block third-party cookies on their own while leaving the first-party ones alone.
The categories in use
Everything this site stores belongs to one of four categories. The lifetime column gives the longest any cookie in that category can live; one that has done its job is dropped earlier.
| Category | What it does on this site | Longest it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keeps your pickup point, dates and filters together as you move between pages, protects the forms from automated submissions and keeps the search working. | The session, or up to 24 hours |
| Preferences | Holds your chosen language and the last filters you used, so a second visit starts from the same place. | Up to 6 months |
| Analytics | Tallies visits and routes through the site as totals, revealing which pages get read and where people give up, never who they were. | Up to 13 months |
| Affiliate referral | Marks that a booking started here, so the supplier knows which referral to credit. It adds nothing to your price. | Up to 30 days |
Session cookies and persistent cookies
Session cookies, which make up most of the strictly necessary group, vanish when the browser window closes. The remaining categories are persistent: each one stays on your device until its lifetime in the table has run, and then it expires on its own. Nothing renews itself while you are away. Once one has lapsed, it comes back only if you return and its category is still allowed.
The third party behind the booking window
The listings and the booking window come from LocalRent. Its script stays dormant until you click through to book a car. From that click onward it can write cookies of its own, and those are the ones listed as affiliate referral above. If another outside service ever sets a cookie here, it will be added to the table under the category that fits, and that provider's own notice will govern it.
Switching cookies off
The switch for cookies lives in your browser rather than on this page, and whatever you set there applies to every website, not only this one. In current versions you will find it roughly here:
- Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies and Site data.
- Safari: Settings, then Privacy, where cross-site tracking and all cookies can be blocked.
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy and Security, under Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, which also lets you delete what is already stored.
- On a phone: the same menus exist in the mobile version of each browser, and a private or incognito window discards everything when it is closed.
Blocking preferences, analytics or affiliate referral cookies costs you nothing here. The site forgets your language, we lose the signal that tells us which pages need work, and a supplier may be unable to credit your booking to this site. Blocking strictly necessary cookies is different: both the search form and the reservation window stop, leaving a site you can read but not use.
Do Not Track
Some browsers attach a Do Not Track header to each request they make. The header was never given an agreed meaning, so most websites ignore it, and this one does not change what it stores when the header is present. Use the browser settings above instead: they are dependable, and they work with or without the header. If Global Privacy Control or a similar header is given a defined legal effect under EU law, we will respect it and update this page to say so.
Updates and questions
We update this page when a category is added or withdrawn or when a provider changes, and the date at the top tells you which version you are reading. What happens to personal data after it is collected, and the rights you have over it, are covered in a separate notice.
If this page leaves a question about cookies on paphosdrive.com unanswered, write to [email protected] and Paphos Rides will answer it.