Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies and Why We Use Them

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help sites remember your preferences, understand how visitors navigate pages, and in some cases serve relevant advertising. At cheapcarrentalscrete.com, we use cookies to make our vehicle rental booking experience as smooth and efficient as possible - whether you are browsing car options from Heraklion, comparing rates for a pickup at Chania Airport, or checking availability for a road trip through the White Mountains.

We keep our cookie use minimal and purposeful. We do not use cookies to collect more information than is necessary to operate this site and improve its usefulness for travelers planning a trip in Crete.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, secure form submissions, and session management. Without essential cookies, services such as the booking widget - where you can reserve a vehicle with no deposit and no credit card requirement - cannot operate correctly. Essential cookies do not collect personal data used for marketing or analytics purposes.

Examples include session identifiers, security tokens, and load-balancing cookies that ensure your requests are handled correctly by our servers.

Analytics Cookies

We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our site - which pages are most viewed, how long users spend on sections such as our fleet listings or airport pickup details, and where visitors come from. All data collected through analytics cookies is anonymized and aggregated. No individual traveler is identified through these cookies.

This information helps us improve page content, refine our booking flow, and ensure that practical information about driving in Crete - such as road conditions around the Lasithi Plateau or access routes to Elafonissi - remains accurate and useful.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies remember choices you make on the site, such as your preferred language, currency display, or previously selected pickup location. These cookies make your return visits more convenient by restoring settings you have already chosen. For example, if you select English and EUR as your preferred currency, functional cookies ensure you do not need to repeat that selection on each visit.

Functional cookies do not track you across other websites and are not used for any advertising purpose.

Marketing and Retargeting Cookies

Where you have given consent, marketing cookies may be set by us or by trusted third-party advertising partners. These cookies allow relevant vehicle rental offers - such as seasonal deals for Crete or promotional rates for airport pickup - to be shown to you on other websites and platforms after you have visited cheapcarrentalscrete.com. You may withdraw consent to marketing cookies at any time via our cookie banner or your browser settings.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on this site are set by third-party providers whose services we integrate to deliver a complete booking and browsing experience. These may include:

• Analytics providers - such as Google Analytics, which processes anonymized traffic data to help us understand usage patterns.
• Booking and reservation partners - third-party platforms that power the rental reservation engine embedded on this site. These partners may set their own session and functional cookies necessary to process your booking request.
• Advertising networks - if marketing cookies are enabled, advertising network cookies may be used to measure ad performance and deliver relevant retargeting content related to car hire in Crete.

We do not control the cookies set by third-party providers. Please refer to each provider's own cookie and privacy policy for full details on their data practices.

How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences

Our Cookie Banner

When you first visit cheapcarrentalscrete.com, a cookie consent banner will appear at the bottom of your screen. You may accept all cookies, decline non-essential cookies, or manage your preferences by category. You can revisit your choices at any time by clearing your browser cookies and reloading the page, which will trigger the consent banner again.

Browser Settings

All major web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings menus. You can block all cookies, delete existing cookies, or configure your browser to notify you before a cookie is set. Please note that blocking essential cookies will prevent some features of this site from working correctly, including the no-deposit booking flow.

Instructions for managing cookies in common browsers:

• Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox: Preferences > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data
• Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
• Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies

Device Settings

On mobile devices, you may also control certain tracking preferences through your operating system settings. Both iOS and Android provide options to limit ad tracking at the device level, which can affect the behavior of marketing cookies.

Data Retention - How Long Cookies Last

Different cookies remain on your device for different lengths of time depending on their purpose:

• Session cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically when you close your browser.
• Persistent essential and functional cookies typically expire between 30 days and 12 months after being set, or when you manually clear them.
• Analytics cookies set by providers such as Google Analytics generally expire after 13 months.
• Marketing cookies set by advertising networks may persist for up to 24 months, subject to your consent preferences.

You may delete any or all cookies from your device at any time through your browser or device settings without affecting your ability to browse this site, though some features may behave differently after cookies are cleared.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

We review and update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements, or the services we use. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date shown below and, where appropriate, notify returning visitors through the cookie consent banner. We encourage you to check this page occasionally if you have ongoing questions about how cookies are used on this site.

This policy was last reviewed in 2024.

Contact Us About Cookies

If you have questions or concerns about the use of cookies on cheapcarrentalscrete.com, or if you would like to exercise any rights related to data collected through cookies, please reach out to us directly:

• [email protected]
• +1 (412) 538-6595
• Crete, Region of Crete, Greece

For questions related to how we handle your personal data more broadly, please review our Data Privacy policy. For questions about your booking, see our Booking Terms.