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Larnaca Larnacadrive Metro · Larnaca, Cyprus

Every time a browser opens larnacadrive.com, a handful of small text records pass back and forth so the site can remember who you are between one click and the next. This page names each category of cookie that can reach your device while you compare rental cars in Larnaca, explains why it exists, states who sets it, and gives an honest answer for how long it stays. Larnaca Larnacadrive Metro operates as a booking guide rather than a garage: the vehicles you see in a search come from independent Larnaca suppliers connected through the LocalRent booking platform, and once you confirm a reservation the rental agreement itself sits between you and that supplier, not us.

Because Cyprus is an EU member state, cookies placed from this site are governed by the same rules that apply anywhere in the bloc, and we have written this policy to match that standard rather than a lighter one. No advertising network runs on larnacadrive.com, we do not build a marketing profile of visitors, and nothing gathered here is sold on to a third party.

What cookies actually do here

A cookie is a short piece of text that a website asks your browser to hold onto and return on a later visit. It cannot open your files, run code on its own, or look into any other tab you have open; its only job is to give an otherwise stateless page a short memory. A "session" cookie lasts only until you close the browser window, while a "persistent" cookie carries an expiry date and survives until that date passes or you remove it yourself, whichever comes first.

Two related techniques behave the same way in practice and are covered by everything below. Local storage in the browser keeps small values without sending them on every request, and the LocalRent search widget, being loaded from its own domain, can read back cookies it has already set on that domain. Treat "cookie" throughout this page as shorthand for that whole family of storage.

The EU and Cyprus legal framework for cookies

Cookie use in Cyprus sits under the EU ePrivacy Directive, transposed into national law through the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law, and it works alongside the GDPR rather than replacing it. The ePrivacy rule is narrow and specific: a cookie that is strictly necessary to deliver a service you actively requested, such as remembering the language you picked or holding your search together across pages, may be set without asking first. Anything that is not strictly necessary, chiefly analytics and any tracking used for advertising, needs your prior, informed, opt-in consent before it is set, not an opt-out switch buried in a settings page.

The Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection is the supervisory authority for Cyprus and is the body a visitor can complain to if a site sets cookies outside these rules. On our own pages, only the strictly necessary categories load automatically. Anything that would need consent is described plainly in the sections below, along with exactly how to switch it off from your own browser.

Cookie categories at a glance

Individual cookie names shift whenever the software behind a page gets updated, so a name-by-name list would be out of date within weeks. The categories and their purpose stay stable, and that is the level of detail that actually helps a visitor.

If your browser's privacy panel shows a cookie on larnacadrive.com that does not match a row above, it most likely belongs to the LocalRent widget and only appears once a car search or a checkout step has actually started.

Essential cookies: session, language and search memory

Three pieces of information need to be remembered for the site to feel like one connected visit rather than a stack of disconnected pages. The session identifier ties your requests together for as long as your browser tab stays open and pairs with a security token that lets a form confirm it was really submitted by you. The language cookie remembers your choice from the switcher, so opening a translated version of the site once means it stays translated on your next visit. The search state cookie holds your pickup location, dates, times and any filter you selected, so moving from the airport pickup guide to the long-term rental page does not throw your search away.

None of these three carries your name, your email address or any payment detail, and none is shared with a third party. Under the ePrivacy framework described above, all three count as strictly necessary, which is why they load without a consent prompt.

Booking widget cookies set by the LocalRent platform

The live car search built into our pages is supplied by LocalRent, the booking platform that connects Larnaca Larnacadrive Metro to real rental suppliers operating in and around Larnaca, including pickup counters near Larnaca International Airport. When that widget loads, it runs a script from its own domain and can set its own cookies, separate from ours. Their job is practical rather than promotional: keep your pickup point and dates steady as you browse cars, keep the quoted price consistent from the results grid through to payment, remember which car you opened so pressing back does not lose your place, and pass your completed reservation to the correct supplier.

Because those cookies belong to LocalRent rather than to us, Larnaca Larnacadrive Metro cannot read, edit or delete them directly. They fall under the platform's own privacy documentation, linked from the booking screens themselves. Our part ends at embedding the widget and writing the Larnaca guides around it; the rental contract, the deposit terms and the condition of the car are matters between you and the supplier who hands you the keys.

Analytics cookies

Our analytics are aimed at pages, not people, and only load once you have accepted them. We look at how many visits a page receives, roughly which country a visitor arrived from, whether the route in was a search engine or a direct link, and whether readers of a guide such as our cheap car hire page go on to actually run a search. That signal tells us which Larnaca content deserves more work and which does not earn its place in the menu. Where the provider supports it, IP addresses are shortened or removed before a report is generated, retained data is kept for around thirteen months, and what reaches us is counts and percentages, never a list naming individual visitors.

Declining analytics changes nothing about your ability to search, compare prices or complete a booking. It only means one visit is missing from a monthly total we look at internally.

Affiliate attribution cookies and what they track

This site earns its keep through commission, not by charging you extra. When a reservation completes after starting on one of our pages, LocalRent pays Larnaca Larnacadrive Metro a share of its own booking fee, and the price you pay at checkout is unaffected by that arrangement. For the right partner to be credited, something has to remember where the booking began, and that something is an attribution cookie set the moment you open the search widget or click through to a listed offer.

What it holds is narrow: an identifier for this website, a click or session reference, a timestamp, and occasionally the page you started from. It never stores your name, email address, phone number, driving licence details or anything about your payment card. Think of it as a referral receipt rather than a profile. The usual attribution window runs about 30 days, so comparing Larnaca car options today and booking a few weeks later still credits the referral correctly. It is never used to target you with adverts, is not merged with data from unrelated sites, and is not resold to anyone.

Deleting this cookie costs you nothing at all. Your booking, your price and your rights against the supplier stay exactly the same; only our commission disappears.

Manage or delete cookies in your browser

Every cookie described above can be viewed, blocked or removed from your own browser settings, with no need to contact us first. The steps below match the current desktop menus for the four browsers most of our visitors use. Opening a private or incognito window is the fastest shortcut of all: whatever it creates is discarded once the last such window closes.

What happens if you block or delete cookies

The consequences differ a good deal by category, so it is worth being precise rather than switching everything off and wondering why the site behaves strangely afterward. Refusing the language cookie is harmless: the site simply forgets your chosen language and reopens in English. Refusing analytics is equally harmless and invisible from where you sit. Refusing the affiliate cookie costs you nothing at all and only costs us a commission.

Blocking essential cookies is a different matter. Forms stop submitting once the security token they depend on can no longer be checked, and your search state resets on every single page load. Blocking third-party cookies entirely, or running a strict tracking-protection mode, usually stops the LocalRent widget from holding your dates steady and can prevent a reservation from completing at the payment step. If a car search starts behaving oddly partway through, that setting is the first thing worth checking, followed by any ad-blocking extension, since some of them stop the widget script from loading at all.

Changes to this policy and how to reach us

If the cookies used on this website change, whether because we adopt a new tool or LocalRent updates its own widget, this page is revised to match and the date below always reflects the version you are reading. You can ask what is currently stored for your browser, request that analytics data tied to your visit be deleted, or raise any other question about cookies on larnacadrive.com by writing to [email protected]. We reply as quickly as we reasonably can. Questions about a booking already made are best sent to the supplier named on your confirmation voucher, since the rental contract sits with them and not with us.

Last updated: August 2026