Privacy Policy — Kutaisi Car Hire

Everything this website itself does with data

Kutaisi is where a cheap flight lands and a Georgian road trip starts. Most people reading this page booked their car at a kitchen table somewhere in Europe, weeks before they ever saw the terminal, so it is worth being exact about where this website sits in that chain. Car Hire Kutaisi is a comparison site. It owns no cars, employs no counter staff and signs no hire agreements. It shows what the rental companies working in this city have free on your dates, and the booking you go on to make is made with one of them.

That arrangement is most of the policy. A site that takes no payment and inspects no document has very little it could be holding, and the table below is the complete account of what it does hold, the ground each item stands on and how long each one survives. The sections past it concern the far side of the handover: the rental company, the law of Georgia, and the rules you carried in from your departure airport.

What happens	Why it is lawful	How long it lasts
The server writes down the request	Keeping a public website standing and spotting abuse is a legitimate interest, and no server can return a page without seeing who asked for it.	A short rolling window. The line is overwritten by the host log rotation rather than kept for a purpose of ours.
Your language is remembered	You asked for the page in that language. Storing the answer is how the request gets honoured on the next click.	In your own browser, until you clear it. No copy is kept on this side.
Your answer on cookies is stored	Consent, which is yours to give and yours to withdraw from the cookie page at any point.	Until you change the answer, and immediately if you clear site data.
Visits are counted in aggregate	Only where you accepted measurement. Decline and the counting stops while the search carries on working.	Totals outlive the visit. There is nothing in them that points back at a person.
An email you send is read and answered	Replying to someone who wrote first is the plainest legitimate interest there is.	Until the matter is settled, then the thread goes.
A completed booking is attributed here	An affiliate has to be able to show that the introduction happened in order to be paid for it.	A commercial record with no name in it. It carries no licence, no document and no card number.

No row above describes the rental company. What they collect, and when, starts in the next section.

Four parties, and what each one answers for

Most confusion about privacy on an affiliate site comes from treating it as one company. It is four, and only two of them ever hold anything of yours.

The rental company in Kutaisi

Whoever owns the car is the controller for your booking: the name on it, the dates, a phone number, the driving licence at handover, and a card on the rare listing that asks for one. The hire agreement is signed with them under the law of Georgia, their own notice decides what they keep and for how long, and their trading name is on the confirmation that reaches your inbox.

This website

Car Hire Kutaisi is the controller for your visit and for nothing else: the request log, the cookie answer, and any message you send to the address below.

You

Nearly every detail a booking here involves arrives because you typed it. That is also why most of it can be prevented by not typing it.

The Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia

The supervisory authority for Georgia. It oversees how companies operating in the country handle personal data, and it is where a complaint lands if writing to us or to the supplier has not settled things. Readers living in the European Union or the United Kingdom keep their own national authority as well.

What the Kutaisi board takes out of this policy

A privacy policy is largely a list of things that could happen to your details. Several of them do not arise on this board at all, and these are the figures behind that. They come from a live sample read this morning and they move during the day.

None of them

Nothing at all is frozen on a card across the hundred Kutaisi listings behind this page. No hold means no authorisation, so for most bookings made here the payment chapter of this policy never opens.

Nine in ten

include delivery at no extra charge. Accepting it is the one ordinary choice that sends a location of yours onward, because a driver has to be told where to come.

Six in ten

can be cancelled free of charge. A cancellation writes its own dated line into the booking, and that line sits with the supplier rather than here.

Five hundred

is the point at which the feed stops counting cars here. A search puts a question to that board. It does not need a profile of you in order to ask one.

The words on this page, fixed once

Who each word points at

You: The person reading this, and later the person named on the hire agreement.
This site: Car Hire Kutaisi, the comparison site you are on. An affiliate, paid for introductions, never a party to the hire.
The supplier: The rental company in Kutaisi that owns the car and signs the agreement with you.
The board: The live supplier feed behind the grid above. It answers searches. It does not keep searchers.

What the legal words mean here

Personal data: Anything traceable back to you, from the name on a booking down to an address sitting in a request log.
Controller: Whoever decides why data is collected. This page has two of them and their jobs do not overlap.
Processor: A company acting on instructions from a controller. Hosting and mail providers are ours. The supplier works for nobody but itself.
International transfer: Data leaving the European Economic Area. Georgia sits outside it, which is why the next section exists.

A ticket bought in Europe, a car handed over in Georgia

Kutaisi is on the map for most travellers because of the flights. The airport works as a low cost gateway into western Georgia, and the majority of people walking out of arrivals bought their seat in an EU member state and their car on a laptop in the same country. Two sets of rules meet on that runway, and they get along considerably better than the paperwork suggests.

Georgia is not part of the European Economic Area, so anything of yours that reaches a company here has crossed a border in the legal sense of the phrase. For this website the crossing is close to empty. No card number, no licence, no scan of a passport page, because not one of those is ever requested on this domain. What does cross is the booking itself, and it crosses because you chose to contract with a company in Georgia directly, which is a footing of its own rather than a transfer we arranged on your behalf.

Georgian law applies to the supplier, and to this site as a service aimed at this market. The Law of Georgia on Personal Data Protection sets the standard and the Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia enforces it. The GDPR does not stop at the EU border either; it attaches to the people a service is aimed at, and this one is written for passengers flying in on the cheap seats from Europe. Where the two sets of rules overlap you may lean on whichever is stronger, and nobody here is going to argue about which one you quoted.

If something needs fixing

Start with an email

Access, correction and deletion of whatever this site holds are all handled from one inbox. There is no account, so there is nothing to log into and nothing to prove beyond the address you write from.
The booking belongs to them

Only the supplier can amend or erase the hire record, because it is theirs and the contract is with you. Their details are on the confirmation they sent.
Then the regulator

The Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia takes complaints about companies operating in the country, this one included.
Or the authority at home

Readers based in the European Union, or in the United Kingdom, can take it to the supervisory authority at home rather than travelling for it.

Write to [email protected] and the first of those four is already under way.

Four things you can settle yourself

Rights you have to ask for are the slow half of a privacy policy. These four need no permission from anyone.

Turn measurement off

The cookie question is a real one. Decline it and the search, the filters and the booking panel all carry on working. What each cookie does is set out on the cookie page.

Skip the delivery

Delivery is included on nearly every car here, which makes it easy to forget that it is optional. Collect at the agreed point instead and no address of yours has to travel.

Clear the browser

Your language and your cookie answer are stored on your device rather than in an account. Clearing site data removes both, and leaves nothing behind on this side to remove.

Send one message

A single email to the address printed lower down this page clears what the site holds. There is no form to hunt for and no reference number to quote back.

The cookie detail lives on its own page: read the cookie policy.

What outlasts the trip

Nothing on this domain is built to remember you. There is no account, no login and no profile being assembled in the background, so the trace a visit leaves is the request line every web server writes, and that rotates out on the log schedule of the host rather than being retained for some purpose of ours. The two things that genuinely persist, your language and your answer on cookies, persist inside your browser, which means you are holding the delete button for both of them already.

What protects the rest is mostly subtraction. Pages are served over an encrypted connection and access to the server is limited to the people who maintain it, but the strongest measure available to a site shaped like this one is declining to collect the dangerous things in the first place. There is no payment page here to breach, no library of licence photographs to leak, and no document store to lose control of.

Nothing here is aimed at children, and nobody who cannot lawfully drive has a reason to put a booking through it. The minimum age, the length of time a licence must have been held and the identity documents a driver has to produce are supplier rules rather than ours. They differ between listings and they are shown on the car page, which is a better place to meet them than the counter.

This page is edited in place whenever part of it stops being true, and the version in front of you is the one in force. If a change affects what gets collected or who receives it, that will be said at the top of the page rather than buried four paragraphs down. Re-reading it before a second booking is worth the minute, because a policy that was accurate in spring is not automatically accurate in autumn.

Questions, corrections and deletion requests all go to one place: [email protected]. Say what you want removed and which address you used, and that is enough to act on. The controller for this website is Car Hire Kutaisi, Kutaisi 4600, Georgia.

Back to the cars in Kutaisi

What people actually write in to ask

No. Delivery and a pickup point are two different things, and at the airport the pickup point is the airport. What the supplier needs there is a flight number and a time, so the car is waiting when the aircraft is late as well as when it is early. An address only enters the booking if you ask for the car somewhere else, a guesthouse in Tsqaltubo or a street in Kutaisi, and then it reaches the supplier so the driver can find the door.

It removes a whole category. Of the hundred cars checked while this page was written, every one leaves the card alone, so in most bookings made here there is no authorisation, no payment instrument sitting in a supplier system, and nothing of that kind for this site to be anywhere near. Check the car page itself before confirming, because a supplier is always free to change its own terms, but the pattern on this board is unusually clean.

Both, on different things, and you are not required to pick one. Georgian law governs companies operating here, which covers the supplier you contract with and covers this site. The GDPR travelled with you, because a service aimed at passengers who live in Europe does not shed their rights at the point where the aircraft lands. Cite whichever you prefer when you make a request, or cite neither. The answer will be the same.

Us first, because we can tell you exactly which company you booked with and pass a message along to them. What we cannot do is reach into their records, since the hire agreement is theirs and everything in it belongs to that contract rather than to this site. If that leads nowhere, the Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia handles complaints about companies operating in Georgia, and a reader based in the European Union or the United Kingdom may instead raise it with the supervisory authority at home.

For most visitors, as soon as the server log rotates. There is no account to outlive the visit and no profile quietly being assembled behind it, so unless you wrote to us or completed a booking, the only trace is an ordinary request line that gets overwritten in the normal running of the host. The exact window is set by that rotation rather than chosen here, which is why this page does not quote a number it cannot stand behind.

No. The grid shows the same board to everyone searching the same dates, and the prices on it come from the suppliers rather than from anything about the person reading. There is no automated decision making, no rate that shifts because of your browser or the country you opened the page in, and no scoring of visitors. The cheapest cars on this board sit at about EUR 25 a day, and they sit there for every reader of this page.

You have read the policy. Now read the board.

The search at the top of this page is the whole of what we ask you for, and the cars behind it are live.

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