Cookie Policy
Dalaman Hire Car · Dalaman, Turkey
Last updated: August 2026
dalamanhirecar.com uses a small number of cookies: some to make the search work at all, the rest to remember your preferences, count visits and record that a booking came from here. Everything except the strictly necessary group can be refused, and this page explains how.
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What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and hand back on your next request. It usually holds nothing more than a short identifier, but that identifier is what lets a site tell one browser from another, so it can remember that you chose English, that you already dismissed a banner, or that your search is still in progress. Related technologies do the same job by other means, including local storage, session storage and tiny tracking pixels, and everything written on this page applies to those as well.
Cookies are described as first party when this site sets them and third party when another domain does, and as session cookies when they vanish the moment you close the browser or persistent when they survive until an expiry date.
How this site uses them
We keep the list deliberately short. Nothing on this site needs an account, so no cookie here stores a name, an address or a payment detail. The four categories below are the whole picture.
| Category | What it does | Consent | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Serve pages, keep the search working, balance load, block abuse | Not required | Session to a few days |
| Preference | Remember language, currency and filter choices between visits | Requested | Up to 12 months |
| Analytics | Count visits and see which pages and listings are used | Requested | Up to 24 months |
| Affiliate | Record that a booking followed a click from this site | Requested | Typically 30 days |
Strictly necessary cookies
These are the cookies without which the site simply does not function, so they are set as soon as you arrive and cannot be switched off from within the site. They keep your session together while a search runs, remember the answer you gave to the cookie notice itself, help the hosting layer route your requests to a working server, and let security tooling recognise scraping and automated abuse. They hold a technical identifier and nothing else, and they are not used to build a profile of you. Under the ePrivacy rules this is the one category that does not need your consent, because refusing it would break the service you asked for.
Preference cookies
Preference cookies remember the small choices that make a second visit less tedious: the language version you read the site in, the currency prices are shown in, and filter settings such as automatic transmission or a no deposit car. They are convenience only. Refuse them and the site still works perfectly, it just forgets what you picked last time and starts every visit from the defaults.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies let us count visits and understand how the site is actually used: which guides are read to the end, which searches are abandoned, how visitors arrive, and roughly which country they are in. We read this in aggregate, as a picture of traffic rather than a file on a person, and we use it to decide which pages deserve rewriting. Analytics is optional. If you refuse it, or if your browser sends a signal we honour, no analytics identifier is set and your visit is simply not counted.
Affiliate and attribution cookies
This category matters more on a comparison site than on most websites, so it is worth explaining honestly. We do not sell cars or take payment. We are paid a commission when a booking is completed on the partner platform after a click from here, and an attribution cookie is what proves the click happened. When you follow a booking link, an identifier for this site, and sometimes for the specific page or listing you clicked, is stored so that a reservation made in the following days can be credited back to us.
Two things follow from that, and both are in your favour. The commission is paid by the platform out of its own margin, so it does not add anything to the price you pay, and this is what keeps the comparison free to use. And the cookie records a referral, not a person: it does not carry your name, your card or your itinerary back to us. What we receive is a report saying a booking of a certain value followed a click, not a customer record. Refusing this category costs you nothing at the desk, though it does mean a booking you make will not be attributed to the site that helped you find it.
Cookies set by third parties
Some of the storage described above is set by other companies rather than by us, because parts of the site are delivered by them. The partner booking platform whose availability is embedded in the search may set its own cookies in order to run that search and to handle the booking flow once you continue. The analytics provider sets the measurement identifier. The hosting and content delivery layer sets short lived security and routing cookies. Font and script libraries loaded from a public content network can log the request that fetches them.
We choose these providers and we keep the list short, but we do not control what they store, so once you continue to a partner site or a supplier page their own cookie and privacy notices govern what happens next. Our privacy policy explains which data reaches which party.
How long cookies last
Lifetimes vary by purpose. Session and security cookies expire when you close the browser or within hours. Preference cookies typically last up to a year, since a returning visitor usually wants the same language. Analytics identifiers commonly run up to two years, though they are refreshed and can be cleared at any time. Affiliate attribution windows are the shortest of the persistent ones, usually around thirty days, because a booking made months later has nothing to do with the click. The table above gives the typical figures. Exact durations are set by the providers and can change, which is one reason we quote them as approximate rather than as fixed values.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Your browser is the master switch, and it can block or delete cookies whatever any website says.
- Chrome. Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third party cookies and Site settings, where you can block cookies generally or per site.
- Safari. Settings, then Privacy, where you can block all cookies and manage stored website data. On iPhone and iPad the same controls sit under Settings, then Apps, then Safari.
- Firefox. Settings, then Privacy and Security, where Standard, Strict and Custom protection levels control cookies and trackers, and Cookies and Site Data clears what is stored.
- Edge. Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data.
Every one of these browsers also offers a private or incognito window, which discards all cookies when the window closes, and most offer a setting to clear cookies automatically on exit. Deleting cookies removes any consent choice you had recorded here, so the cookie notice will appear again on your next visit.
What breaks if you block them
Blocking optional cookies is a reasonable choice and the site is built to survive it. Refuse preferences and the site forgets your language and filters between visits. Refuse analytics and we lose the ability to see which pages are worth improving, which affects us rather than you. Refuse affiliate attribution and the price you pay is unchanged, but the referral is not credited.
Blocking cookies outright is a stronger step. The search relies on session storage to hold your dates and results together, so with all cookies blocked the results panel may fail to load or may reset as you filter, and the cookie notice will reappear on every page because the answer cannot be saved. If the search behaves oddly, allowing cookies for this domain is the first thing to try.
Changes to this policy
We revise this policy when we add or remove a provider, when a lifetime changes materially, or when the law does. The version on this page is always the current one and the date at the top records when it last changed.
How to contact us
If you want to know exactly what is stored during a visit, or you want an optional category switched off and cannot make it stick, write to [email protected]. We answer by email only, so there is no number to ring. Questions about cookies set by a supplier after you have left this site are best sent to that supplier, since we cannot see or clear their storage.
This cookie policy was last updated in August 2026.