Cookie Policy
Last updated: 13 September 2026
In brief
- Two first-party cookies are set here, both strictly necessary, both gone two hours after your last request.
- The booking window comes from LocalRent, which sets its own cookies once its script loads.
- Every cookie can be blocked or deleted in your browser, and the site stays readable if you do.
What a cookie does on a comparison site
A cookie is a short text record that a website asks your browser to keep and send back with later requests. It carries no code and cannot run anything on your device; its use is memory. When you enter pickup dates on the home page and then open the page about collecting a car at Gando, a cookie is what lets the second page know the dates you already typed. On carrentalgrancanaria.com some cookies are written by the site itself, which makes them first-party, and some by the booking service embedded in the results, which makes them third-party. Browsers let you treat the two kinds separately, which is why the distinction matters.
The cookies in use, and the ones held in reserve
Every category this site works with is listed below. Two are active today; the other two are described so you know what would change if they were switched on, and this page will be updated before that happens.
| Category | What it is for | Lifetime | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | A session cookie that keeps your search dates and pickup point steady between pages, and a CSRF token that protects every form against forged submissions. | Two hours after your last request | Active, first-party |
| Booking and referral | Written by the LocalRent script once it loads; it ties the reservation you open to this site so the supplier can settle our referral fee. | Set and governed by LocalRent | Active once the script loads, third-party |
| Preferences | Would remember a language or the filters you last applied. The language lives in the page address instead, so none is written today. | None | Not in use |
| Analytics | Would count visits and page routes as totals, never an individual. If a measurement tool is added, its cookie will be listed here first. | None | Not in use |
Because the site's own cookies are strictly necessary, Spanish law (Article 22.2 of the LSSI) does not require consent for them, which is why no banner greets you on arrival. If a preferences or analytics cookie is ever introduced, consent will be asked first.
When the third-party script loads
The LocalRent code that draws the results and opens the reservation window is not fetched with the page. It loads at your first interaction, a scroll, a tap or a click, and a press on Book forces it if nothing else did. From that moment LocalRent can write the cookies in the booking and referral row, under its own cookie policy. No advertising network places cookies on carrentalgrancanaria.com.
How to disable cookies in your browser
Cookie controls belong to the browser rather than to this page, and a change made there applies to every website you visit. In current versions the settings sit roughly here:
- Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies or Site settings, to block, allow or delete cookies by site.
- Safari on a Mac: the Safari menu, then Settings, then Privacy; on an iPhone the same switch is in the Settings app under Safari.
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy and Security, then Enhanced Tracking Protection, where the Custom option decides which cookies are refused.
- Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data.
- Any browser: a private or incognito window discards everything stored during the session when you close it.
Block the third-party category and the site stays fully readable and searchable; the supplier may simply be unable to credit a booking to this site. Block the strictly necessary category and the memory goes: dates typed on one page do not reach the next, and forms refuse to submit without the token that protects them.
The Do Not Track signal
Do Not Track is a single on-or-off header a browser can add to every request. It was designed to stop cross-site tracking and has never had a binding definition in Spanish or European law, so websites respond to it in different ways. This site does not change which cookies it sets when the header is present, for a practical reason: the only first-party cookies here are the ones the search needs, and the signal cannot say keep the session but drop the rest. The browser settings above can, so they are the tool we point you to. The same goes for the newer Global Privacy Control signal; if either gains a settled legal meaning here, we will follow it and note the change on this page.
Changes and questions
Whenever a cookie is added, removed or given a new lifetime, this page changes with it; the date beneath the title is the version in force. What becomes of personal data once collected, and the rights you hold over it, are set out in the privacy policy.
If a question about cookies is not answered here, Rent Gran Canaria will answer it by email at [email protected].