Cookies Policy

Bicycle Rental Service - Understanding Our Cookie Usage

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit our bicycle rental website. These files contain information that helps us provide you with a better browsing experience and enables certain functionalities of our service. Cookies are widely used by websites to make them work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners about user preferences and behavior patterns.

Our bicycle rental platform uses cookies to enhance your experience when browsing our fleet of bicycles, making reservations, and managing your rental preferences. We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use information through cookies, ensuring you have full control over your privacy settings.

Types of Cookies We Use

How We Use Cookies

Our bicycle rental service uses cookies for several important purposes that enhance your overall experience. We use cookies to maintain your login session, ensuring you remain authenticated while browsing our bicycle inventory and making reservations. Cookies help us remember your rental preferences, such as preferred pickup locations, bicycle types, and rental duration preferences.

We also utilize cookies to analyze website traffic and user behavior patterns, which helps us optimize our bicycle fleet distribution, improve our booking system, and enhance overall service quality. Performance cookies allow us to identify popular rental locations and peak usage times, enabling us to better serve our customers' needs.

Additionally, cookies enable us to provide personalized recommendations based on your previous rentals and browsing history, suggesting bicycles and accessories that might interest you. This personalization helps create a more efficient and enjoyable rental experience.

Third-Party Cookies

Our bicycle rental website may include third-party cookies from trusted partners and service providers. These may include analytics services that help us understand website performance, payment processors that facilitate secure transactions, and mapping services that help you locate rental stations and plan your cycling routes.

Social media cookies may be present if you choose to share your cycling experiences or connect your social media accounts with our service. These third-party cookies are governed by the respective privacy policies of those service providers, and we encourage you to review their cookie policies for detailed information.

Important Note: We carefully select our third-party partners and ensure they comply with applicable data protection regulations. However, we cannot control how these third parties use cookies, so we recommend reviewing their individual privacy policies.

Your Control Over Cookies

You have complete control over cookie settings on our bicycle rental website. You can modify your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie preference center, which is accessible from the footer of every page. This tool allows you to enable or disable different categories of cookies according to your preferences.

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:

  • View and delete individual cookies
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Block cookies from specific websites
  • Block all cookies
  • Delete all cookies when you close your browser

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our bicycle rental platform. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are necessary for basic website operations, including security features and user authentication.

Cookie Retention and Data Security

Different types of cookies have varying retention periods. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you manually delete them. Our essential cookies typically remain active for the duration of your session, while preference cookies may be stored for up to one year to remember your settings.

We implement appropriate security measures to protect cookie data and ensure that information collected through cookies is handled securely. All cookie data is encrypted during transmission and storage, and access is restricted to authorized personnel only.

Google Consent Mode v2 Implementation

Our bicycle rental platform implements Google Consent Mode v2, which allows us to adjust how Google tags behave based on your consent choices. This advanced consent management system ensures that analytics and advertising cookies only collect data when you have provided explicit consent, while still allowing us to measure website performance in a privacy-friendly manner.

This implementation helps us maintain compliance with privacy regulations while providing you with transparency and control over your data.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make significant changes, we will notify users through our website or other appropriate communication channels. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies.

Continued use of our bicycle rental service after policy updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. If you disagree with any changes, you can adjust your cookie preferences or discontinue using our service.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on January 2024 and is effective immediately for all users of our bicycle rental service.