Cookie Policy (EU)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on November 5, 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://geodrive.cy (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional (necessary) cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website and our online car rental booking engine work properly and that your core session selections remain known. By placing functional/necessary cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website and reserve a vehicle. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and your selected rental dates and vehicle remain in your booking session. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Preferences cookies

Preferences cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language, region, or form identifiers) to provide a more personalized experience. We ask your permission to place non-essential preferences cookies.

5.3 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. We ask your permission before placing marketing cookies.

5.5 Social media

On our website, we have included content from Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok are located in the United States.

6. Placed cookies

Customer Support & Communication Channels

Functional

We provide direct customer communication options for car hire inquiries. Legacy third-party chat widgets (such as Intercom, Tawk, Tidio, or LiveChat) are not active on standard browsing pages unless explicitly enabled for a support session.

Cookie Consent Management (MALAKA GDPR / Complianz)

Necessary / Functional

We use our consent management tool to record and respect your cookie preferences across our website, including storing the first-party cookie malaka_consent for 180 days to remember your choices across the necessary, preferences, statistics, and marketing categories.

Tawk

Functional

Consent to service tawk

Functional

Name: twk_uuid_*
Expiration: 6 months
Function: Stores a unique visitor identifier for the live chat widget so the website can recognize returning visitors across pages during a support inquiry.

Tidio Live Chat

Functional

Consent to service tidio-live-chat

Roundcube (Webmail)

Functional

Used only when accessing webmail administration interfaces to maintain session state; not placed on standard website visitors browsing rental vehicles.

Necessary / Functional

Name: roundcube_cookies
Expiration: session
Function: Technical check to verify whether cookies are enabled in the browser when accessing the webmail interface.

WordPress

Necessary / Functional

We use WordPress for website content management. Core WordPress cookies are strictly necessary to manage authenticated administrator sessions and ensure the website functions properly for visitors.

WPForms

Necessary / Preferences

We use WPForms to provide contact and car rental inquiry forms on our website and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Preferences

Name: _wpfuuid
Expiration: 11 years
Function: Stores a unique pseudonymous identifier to link form submissions and assist with anti-spam and user experience on website inquiry forms.

Google Ads & Conversion Linker

Marketing, Statistics

Used to measure advertising campaign conversions and ad click interactions (loaded only with your marketing/statistics consent).

Statistics / Marketing

Name: _gcl_ls
Expiration: persistent (local storage, up to 90 days)
Function: Stores and tracks ad click interactions and conversion linker timestamps.

Active Campaign

Marketing

Consent to service active-campaign

Local Web Fonts (Self-Hosted)

Necessary / Functional

Web fonts (including Google Fonts and Tailwind CSS) are served directly from our own web server. No connection is made to Google servers and no IP address or personal data is shared with third parties when loading fonts.

Sharing data

This data is not shared with third parties. All web fonts and CSS frameworks (including Google Fonts and Tailwind CSS) are hosted locally on our server.

Google reCAPTCHA / Anti-Spam Protection

Necessary / Functional, Marketing

Used to protect our car rental inquiry and contact forms against automated spam and abuse. For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy.

Google Maps

Marketing / Preferences

We use Google Maps to display interactive maps and our car rental pick-up and drop-off locations in Cyprus. Loading Google Maps may place cookies such as NID (expiration: 6 months) to store user preferences and customize map display. Google Maps is loaded only with your consent. For more information, please see the Google Privacy Policy.

Vimeo

Marketing, Statistics

We use Vimeo to embed video content on our website. Loading embedded videos places cookies—in particular vuid (expiration: up to 2 years)—to assign a unique visitor ID, track video statistics, and remember player preferences. See the Vimeo Privacy Policy.

PayPal

Functional

Consent to service paypal

ShareThis

Marketing

Consent to service sharethis

LiveChat

Functional, Marketing

Consent to service livechat

Facebook (Meta Pixel)

Marketing, Functional

We use the Meta Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and understand actions visitors take on our car rental website. Only placed with your marketing consent. This service sets the cookies _fbp (expiration: 3 months, used to store and track visits across websites) and fr (expiration: 3 months, used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevance of advertisements). For more information, please see the Meta Privacy Policy.

LinkedIn

Functional, Marketing, Statistics, Preferences

Consent to service linkedin

WhatsApp

Functional

We provide a direct WhatsApp communication link so customers can contact GeoDrive Car Hire regarding vehicle availability, pick-up arrangements, and support. Clicking the link connects you to WhatsApp under the Meta/WhatsApp Privacy Policy.

TikTok

Marketing, Functional

Consent to service tiktok

Marketing

Name: f
Expiration: persistent
Function: Used by embedded TikTok content to measure ad performance, track interaction with video content, and personalize recommendations.

LiteSpeed

Necessary / Functional

Used for server-level page caching and performance optimization so pages load quickly and reliably without storing personal tracking profiles.

Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager

Statistics

Placed only with your statistics consent via our cookie banner.

Usage

We use Google Analytics (via MonsterInsights) and Google Tag Manager for website statistics and tag management to understand how visitors use our car rental website. Read more about Google Analytics and see the Google Privacy Policy.

Car Rental Booking System (HQ Rental Software), Security, Affiliate & Additional Site Cookies

Necessary / Functional, Preferences, Statistics, Marketing

Cookies, local storage items, and technical scripts used to operate the GeoDrive Car Hire vehicle selection and reservation system (HQ Rental Software via geodrive-car-hire-ltd.geodrive.cy, including the necessary session cookie hqcf_selected_vehicle to retain your selected vehicle and rental dates during booking), front-end UI libraries (unpkg.com), customer review displays (Business Reviews Bundle), website security and firewall protection (WP Ghost / Imunify Security), partner referral tracking (SliceWP, which places a first-party cookie when visiting via an affiliate referral link to attribute bookings), and analytics.

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you our cookie banner with an explanation about cookies and the categories we use (necessary, preferences, statistics, and marketing). As soon as you save your preferences or accept cookies, your choice is stored in the first-party cookie malaka_consent for 180 days, and we activate the categories of cookies and scripts you selected as described in this Cookie Policy. You can also disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website and vehicle booking features may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

You can review, change, or withdraw your cookie consent at any time by clicking the cookie settings button on our website or by using the settings panel below:

Cookie settings

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Cyprus Law 125(I)/2018, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• Right to be informed: You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
• Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR): You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us and receive a copy of it.
• Right to rectification and erasure (Arts. 16 & 17 GDPR): You have the right to supplement, correct, or request the deletion of your personal data whenever you wish.
• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR): You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Right to withdraw consent (Art. 7(3) GDPR): Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time (without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal).
• Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): You have the right to request your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transfer it to another controller.
• Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): You may object to the processing of your data based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details in Section 10. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority in Cyprus: the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection (https://www.dataprotection.gov.cy, Iasonos 1, 1082 Nicosia, Cyprus, Email: commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy).

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact the data controller by using the following contact details:

GeoDrive Car Hire Ltd (trading as GeoDrive Car Hire)
Company Registration Number: ΗΕ 449517 (Republic of Cyprus)
VAT Registration Number: CY60020516E (60020516E)
Address: 148 Agias Mariana, Menou-Pervolia, 7000, Larnaca, Cyprus
Website: https://geodrive.cy
Email: info@geodrive.cy
Phone number: +35770002200

This Cookie Policy was synchronized with cookiedatabase.org on November 5, 2026.

Furthermore, this website may install the following specific cookies (but not limited to):

Controlling cookies:

Most browsing applications accept cookies automatically but at the same time provide control options that allow you to block or delete them. Through your device’s settings, you have the ability to receive a warning about the use of cookies on specific services, or even not to accept cookies.

Some features of the services provided through the website, such as selecting rental dates, choosing a vehicle, and completing a car hire reservation, depend on necessary cookies. If you choose to block all cookies, you may lose the ability to sign in or use some of these booking services as well as your preferences which rely on cookies.

Data Controller & Data Protection Contact:
The data controller responsible for processing personal data on this website and for car rental services is GeoDrive Car Hire Ltd (trading as GeoDrive Car Hire), registered in the Republic of Cyprus under Company Registration Number ΗΕ 449517 and VAT Registration Number CY60020516E (60020516E), with registered address at 148 Agias Mariana, Menou-Pervolia, 7000, Larnaca, Cyprus. We have not appointed a formal Data Protection Officer (DPO) as we do not meet the mandatory thresholds under Art. 37 GDPR; all privacy and data protection inquiries are handled directly by our privacy team at info@geodrive.cy.

Individuals' Rights regarding their personal data collected, used, and processed by GeoDrive Car Hire:
Individuals have rights in respect of the personal data our company holds under the GDPR and Cyprus Law 125(I)/2018. Those rights include: the right to be informed of what personal data we hold and how we use it; the right of access to and a copy of the personal data our company holds (Art. 15 GDPR); the right to request correction or rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR); the right to request erasure ('right to be forgotten', Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing in certain circumstances (Art. 18 GDPR); the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR); the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal (Art. 7(3) GDPR); and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR). We do not use personal data collected via cookies or car rental bookings for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects (Art. 22 GDPR). The above rights can be exercised by contacting our company by email at info@geodrive.cy or by post at 148 Agias Mariana, Menou-Pervolia, 7000, Cyprus.

Contractual Requirement for Car Rental Bookings (Art. 13(2)(e) GDPR):
While consenting to non-essential cookies (preferences, statistics, and marketing) is completely voluntary, providing your personal, contact, identification, and valid driving licence details when requesting or entering into a vehicle rental agreement with GeoDrive Car Hire is a statutory and contractual requirement necessary to verify driver eligibility, arrange motor insurance coverage under Cyprus law, and execute the rental contract. If you do not provide the required booking information, we will not be able to process your reservation or rent a vehicle to you.

Recipients of Personal Data (Art. 13(1)(e) GDPR):
Where necessary for the operation of our website and the fulfilment of vehicle rental contracts, personal data may be shared with trusted categories of recipients acting as data processors (under Art. 28 GDPR agreements) or independent controllers: (a) our car rental reservation and fleet management software provider (HQ Rental Software via geodrive-car-hire-ltd.geodrive.cy) and website hosting/security providers; (b) licensed motor insurance companies in the Republic of Cyprus for mandatory third-party and rental vehicle insurance coverage and claims handling; (c) banking institutions and payment service providers for processing rental deposits and payments; (d) analytics and advertising providers (such as Google and Meta) strictly where you have granted cookie consent; and (e) law enforcement, municipal, or traffic authorities in the Republic of Cyprus where required by law (for example, in relation to road traffic offences or accidents during the rental period).

How long does our company hold personal data of individuals?
Cookies are retained for the specific durations listed in Section 6 above (and our consent cookie malaka_consent is stored for 180 days). Personal data collected for vehicle rental inquiries, bookings, driver qualification checks, and rental contracts (such as identification details, driving licence details, contact information, and vehicle reservation records) is retained for the duration of the rental agreement and thereafter for up to six (6) years following the end of the relevant financial year to comply with statutory tax, accounting, and corporate obligations under the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, or for as long as necessary to handle insurance matters, traffic fines, or legal claims under the Cyprus Limitation of Actions Law (Law 66(I)/2012).

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest
Strictly necessary cookies are placed on the basis of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (transposed into Cyprus law by Law 112(I)/2004 as amended) and our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) to ensure website security and proper technical operation, or for the performance of a contract / pre-contractual steps (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) when you use our online car hire booking system to select a vehicle and request a reservation. Preferences, statistics, and marketing cookies are placed only with your prior, freely given consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

International Data Transfers
When you consent to statistics or marketing cookies (such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Maps, Meta Pixel, or Vimeo), data such as your IP address, browser identifiers, and interaction data may be transferred to providers located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), in particular to the United States. Where such transfers occur, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with Chapter V of the GDPR, including adequacy decisions by the European Commission under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) (Art. 45 GDPR) for certified U.S. providers (such as Google LLC and Meta Platforms, Inc.) or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR).

Security
Our company is committed to ensuring that the personal data of individuals collected is secured. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, our company has set in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect.

Right to lodge a complaint
If you have any concerns or complaints regarding the way in which our company processes personal data, please contact us at info@geodrive.cy. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection in Cyprus (www.dataprotection.gov.cy, Iasonos 1, 1082 Nicosia, Cyprus, Tel: +357 22818456, Email: commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy).

Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website and car rental services at Terms and Conditions.

Changes to this Policy
We may review this policy from time to time and any changes will be notified to you by posting an updated version on our website.