Cookie Policy

Antalyadrive Antalya · Antalya, Turkey

This page explains every cookie that reaches your browser while you read antalyadrive.com or compare hire cars in Antalya, who places it, what it is for and how long it survives. Antalyadrive Antalya is a comparison and booking site: the cars you see come from local Antalya suppliers listed through the LocalRent platform, and your rental contract is signed with the supplier that hands you the keys, not with us. That structure matters here, because a handful of the cookies described below belong to the booking platform rather than to this website, and they exist so that a search you start on our pages can finish as a real reservation.

We do not run advertising networks, we do not build audience profiles, and we do not sell browsing data to anyone. What follows is the complete list.

1. What a cookie is

A cookie is a short piece of text that a website asks your browser to store and hand back on the next request. Nothing else about it is clever: it cannot read your hard drive, run a program or see other tabs. It simply gives an otherwise forgetful connection a memory, which is how a site can tell your session apart from the thousands running at the same moment. Some cookies vanish the second you close the tab, which is what "session" means in the table below. Others carry an expiry date and sit on the device until that date passes or you delete them, which is what "persistent" means.

Two neighbouring technologies work the same way in practice. Local storage keeps small values in the browser without sending them back automatically, and a pixel or script loaded from another domain can read a cookie that domain already set. Everything written on this page applies to those techniques as well, so you can treat "cookie" here as shorthand for the whole family.

2. The categories we use, and how long each one lives

Technical cookie names change whenever the underlying software is updated, so naming them individually would leave this page out of date within a month. The categories and their purposes are stable, and they are what actually matters to you.

If a privacy extension flags a cookie on antalyadrive.com that does not fit one of the rows above, it will almost certainly belong to the booking platform and appear only after you interact with the car search.

3. Essential cookies

Three small things have to be remembered for the site to behave like a website rather than a stack of disconnected documents. The first is the session itself, a random identifier that ties your requests together for as long as the browser stays open, paired with a security token that proves a form submission came from our page and not from somewhere else. The second is the language you choose in the switcher: without a stored preference, every page would reopen in English and the eighteen translated versions of this site would be useless to the people who need them. The third is your search state, meaning the pickup location, the dates and times, and whichever filter you clicked, so that walking from the airport guide to the no deposit page does not wipe the search you just entered.

None of these carries a name, an email address or a payment detail, and none of them is shared with a third party. Under the GDPR they qualify as strictly necessary or as a preference you actively set, which is why they do not sit behind a consent prompt.

4. Booking widget cookies set by the LocalRent platform

The car search on our pages is a widget supplied by LocalRent, the platform that connects this website to local suppliers in Antalya. When it loads, it runs its own script from its own domain, and that script may set its own cookies. They do the practical work of holding a booking together: keeping the pickup point and the dates you entered, keeping the price you were quoted consistent between the results grid and the payment step, remembering which car you opened so the back button does not throw away your place, and passing your reservation to the supplier that will actually meet you.

Because those cookies are set and read by the platform, Antalyadrive Antalya cannot see their contents, edit them or delete them for you. They are covered by the platform's own privacy and cookie documentation, which you can reach from the booking screens. Our role stops at embedding the widget and publishing the guides around it. The rental agreement, the deposit rules and the condition of the car are all matters between you and the local supplier.

5. Analytics

We use basic audience measurement to understand traffic at the level of pages, not people. What we look at is how many visits a page receives, which country a visit came from, whether it arrived from a search engine or a direct link, and whether readers of the Antalya airport guide go on to search for a car. That tells us which pages deserve more work and which are not earning their place. IP addresses are truncated or anonymised by the provider before reporting where that option exists, retention is capped at roughly thirteen months, and the reports we see are counts and percentages rather than individual sessions.

Analytics cookies are not necessary for anything you do here. Blocking them changes nothing about your ability to search, compare or book; it only removes one visit from a monthly total.

6. Affiliate attribution cookies and what they track

This site earns its keep through commission. When a reservation is completed after starting on our pages, the booking platform pays Antalyadrive Antalya a share of its own fee, and the price you pay is not increased because of it. For that to work, something has to remember where the booking came from, and that something is an attribution cookie set by LocalRent when you first open the search or click through to an offer.

What it typically holds is narrow: a partner identifier for this website, a click or session reference, the timestamp of that click, and sometimes the page you started from. What it does not hold is your name, your email address, your phone number, your licence details or anything about your payment card. It is a receipt for the referral, not a profile of you. The usual attribution window is around thirty days, so if you compare cars in Antalya today and book three weeks later, the referral is still recognised. It is not used to show you adverts, it is not combined with data from other sites, and it is not sold on.

Deleting it costs you nothing at all. Your booking, your price and your rights against the supplier are identical either way; only our commission disappears.

7. How to manage or delete cookies in your browser

Every cookie described here can be inspected, deleted or refused from your browser, without asking us. The paths below are the current desktop routes for the four browsers most of our readers use. A private or incognito window is the quickest alternative: cookies created inside one are discarded when the last window closes.

8. What happens if you block them

The consequences differ sharply by category, so it is worth being precise rather than blocking everything and wondering why the site misbehaves. Refusing the language cookie is harmless: the site simply forgets which of its languages you picked and reopens in English. Refusing analytics is equally harmless and invisible to you. Refusing the affiliate cookie costs you nothing and costs us a commission.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies is a different matter. Forms stop submitting, because the security token they depend on can no longer be checked, and the search state resets on every page you open. Blocking third-party cookies outright, or running a strict tracking-protection mode, usually stops the LocalRent widget from holding your dates and can prevent a reservation from completing at the payment step. If the car search behaves oddly, that setting is the first thing to check, followed by ad-blocking extensions, which sometimes stop the widget script from loading at all.

9. Changes to this policy and how to reach us

If the set of cookies on this website changes, because we adopt a new tool or the booking platform updates its own, this page is revised and the date underneath always shows the version you are reading. You can ask us what is currently stored for your browser, ask for analytics data connected to your visit to be deleted, or raise anything else about cookies on antalyadrive.com by writing to [email protected]. We answer as quickly as we can, and questions about a reservation already made are best sent to the supplier named on your voucher, since they hold the contract.

Last updated: August 2026