Cookies Policy

Last Updated: January 2025

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. Cookies help us understand how you interact with our site, remember your preferences, and deliver a personalized experience.

These files contain a unique identifier that allows our website to recognize your device during your current visit (using a "session cookie") or on repeat visits (using a "persistent cookie"). Cookies cannot access, read, or modify any other data on your device.

How We Use Cookies

At Gihixo, we use cookies for various purposes to ensure our car rental website functions properly and to provide you with the best possible user experience. Our cookies help us:

• Remember your preferences: Such as language settings, location preferences, and vehicle search criteria
• Authenticate users: To keep you logged in securely throughout your session
• Analyze website traffic: To understand how visitors use our site and identify areas for improvement
• Enhance security: To detect and prevent fraudulent activity and protect your personal information
• Provide personalized content: To show you relevant vehicle options and special offers based on your interests
• Facilitate bookings: To remember your rental details as you navigate through the reservation process

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, services you have requested, such as completing a car rental booking, cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you for marketing purposes.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and whether users receive error messages. These cookies help us improve the way our website works by allowing us to analyze usage patterns. All information collected by performance cookies is aggregated and anonymous.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your preferred pickup location, rental dates, or vehicle type) and provide enhanced, personalized features. These cookies may also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of web pages.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies remember that you have visited our website and may share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may use third-party cookies from trusted partners to help us analyze website usage, manage advertising campaigns, and provide social media features. These third parties may include:

• Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) to help us understand visitor behavior
• Advertising networks to display relevant ads based on your browsing activity
• Social media platforms to enable sharing and social features
• Payment processors to facilitate secure transactions

These third-party cookies are subject to the respective privacy policies of these external services. We encourage you to review their policies to understand how they collect and process your data.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. Here's how you can manage cookies:

• Browser Settings: You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly, and you may not be able to complete a car rental booking.
• Cookie Preference Center: When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner allowing you to customize your cookie preferences.
• Opt-Out Tools: You can opt out of targeted advertising cookies by visiting industry opt-out pages such as the Digital Advertising Alliance or Network Advertising Initiative.

Please note that if you delete all cookies from your browser, you may need to reset your preferences when you next visit our website.

Changes to This Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business practices. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies and protect your information.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Cookies Policy or our use of cookies, please don't hesitate to contact us: