This policy explains what happens to your data when you use localblu.com. There are no accounts, no newsletters and no forms on this website, so most of what we receive comes from the booking you make with Sunny Cars.
1. Who we are
localblu is run by Hertge VOF, President Kennedylaan 154, 2343 GV Oegstgeest, the Netherlands (Chamber of Commerce 88251918). We are responsible for the data described below. You can reach us at info@hertge.com.
2. Visiting the website
Like any website, ours runs on a web server, hosted by SiteGround. When you open a page, the server receives technical data such as your IP address, your browser and the page you ask for, and records it in its log files. We use these logs only to keep the website running and secure. The website is delivered through Cloudflare, which processes the same technical data to deliver the pages quickly and to protect the website against abuse.
3. Visitor statistics
We use Clicky (clicky.com, run by Roxr Software Ltd) to count visits and see which pages are read. Clicky is set up without tracking cookies and with anonymised IP addresses. According to Clicky, the full IP address is still logged for visitors who use a VPN. Cloudflare also counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies and does not store your IP address. We use these statistics only to improve the website. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing how the website is used.
4. Searching for a car
When you type a place in the search box, your browser asks Sunny Cars for matching pick-up points. Sunny Cars receives what you type and, as with any web request, your IP address.
When you click Show cars, we record the pick-up point, your dates, the number of days, whether you use a phone or a computer, the page you were on and the time zone set in your browser. We do not record your name, email address or IP address. These details are stored in a Google spreadsheet through a Google Apps Script web address; Google receives the request and, with it, your IP address. We use this information to see which destinations and travel dates people search for. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in improving our offer.
5. Booking with Sunny Cars
You make your booking on the website of Sunny Cars, not on ours. The details you enter there go to Sunny Cars, and its own privacy policy applies. The link to Sunny Cars contains our partner code, so that Sunny Cars can see that you came from localblu.
When you book a car through localblu, Sunny Cars sends us a booking confirmation by email with your name, address, email address and phone number. We do not receive your payment details. We keep these emails only to check the bookings Sunny Cars pays us commission for. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in checking our commission and our legal obligation to keep the records behind our income. We do not use these details to contact you or for marketing, and we do not pass them on.
6. Cookies
localblu.com does not set cookies. The Sunny Cars booking website may use its own cookies; its cookie information applies there.
7. Who receives your data
Only the services named in this policy: SiteGround (hosting), Cloudflare (delivery and statistics), Clicky (statistics), Google (the spreadsheet) and Sunny Cars (search and booking). The booking confirmations support our accounts, which the Dutch Tax Administration can inspect. Some of them may process data outside the European Economic Area. We do not sell your data and do not share it for advertising.
8. How long we keep it
We keep the booking confirmations for as long as we need them to check our commission, and at least for the seven years for which Dutch tax law requires us to keep the records behind our income. We keep the search records in our spreadsheet for as long as they help us understand which destinations are searched, and delete them when they no longer serve that purpose. Log files and statistics are kept according to the retention settings of SiteGround and Clicky.
9. Your rights
You can ask us for access to, correction of or deletion of your personal data, and you can object to how we use it. For a booking, your name or email address is enough for us to find the confirmation. Search records do not contain your name, so for those we need the date and pick-up point of your search. Some rights are limited by our legal duty to keep records. Send your request to info@hertge.com. You can also complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
10. Changes
If we change how we handle data, we update this page and the date below.
Last updated: 11 November 2026.