This Cookie Policy explains how Petromare uses cookies and similar storage tools on our vacation car rental website. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device when you visit. Cookies allow a site to recognise your device on later pages and on future visits. Most modern websites use cookies to support core features and to learn how the site is being used.
On this site we also use related browser storage — sometimes called local storage — to remember settings such as your cookie preferences. Where this policy refers to "cookies", the same approach applies to that storage.
2. Categories of cookies we use
We group cookies into four categories. The first category is always on because the site needs it to work. The other three are optional and only used if you give consent.
2.1 Essential cookies
These are needed for the site to function — for example, to remember that you have made a cookie choice, or to keep a contact form session in good order while you complete it. They cannot be turned off in our preference panel.
2.2 Preferences cookies
These remember choices you make, such as your selected vehicle category or your preferred handover branch, so you do not have to re-enter them on your next visit.
2.3 Analytics cookies
These help us understand how visitors use the site — which pages are read most, where readers come from, and where the site can be made clearer. The data is collected in an aggregated form and we do not use it to identify individual readers.
2.4 Marketing cookies
These are used to measure the effect of advertising we may place on third-party platforms, for example to see how many readers reached our site from a particular travel publication. We use marketing cookies sparingly and only with consent.
3. The cookies in use
The table below lists the main cookies and storage keys used on this website. The list is reviewed and updated when changes are made.
| Name | Category | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookieConsent | Essential | Stores your cookie choice so the consent panel is not shown on every visit. | 12 months |
| PHPSESSID | Essential | Keeps the contact form session in order during a single visit. | Session |
| pref_branch | Preferences | Remembers your preferred handover branch when set. | 6 months |
| _pa_session | Analytics | Counts site visits and notes which pages were read. | 30 minutes |
| _pa_visitor | Analytics | Distinguishes between new and returning readers. | 13 months |
| _mk_ref | Marketing | Notes the publication or platform a reader arrived from. | 90 days |
4. Your consent
When you first visit our website, a small panel asks you to accept all cookies or to reject the optional ones. Your choice is recorded in the cookieConsent storage key, together with the date and the version of this policy. Essential cookies are always set, since the site cannot work without them.
You can change your choice at any time by clearing your browser's site data for petromar.info and then reloading the page — the consent panel will appear again.
5. Managing cookies in your browser
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers let you:
- See what cookies are stored and remove them.
- Block all cookies, or cookies from particular sites.
- Open private or incognito windows that do not keep cookies after the window is closed.
Help pages for the common browsers — Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge — describe these settings in detail. Please note that blocking all cookies may stop some parts of this website from working.
6. Third-party services
Some cookies on our site are set by third-party services that we use, for example a privacy-friendly analytics tool. These third parties are not allowed to use the data for their own purposes other than those described to us. We do not allow third parties to set advertising cookies on our site without your consent.
7. Changes to this policy
We update this Cookie Policy when the cookies we use change or when our consent process changes. The date at the top of the policy shows when it was last updated. If a change is material we will refresh the version number stored with your consent and ask for your choice again.
8. Contact
If you have any questions about the cookies used on our site, or about this policy, please write to us at [email protected], call +60 19-857 3624, or visit our office at 19 Jalan Wira 9, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor during opening hours.