Cookie Policy

Last updated: 18 August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Iran Train Ticket uses cookies and similar technologies and how visitors can manage their cookie preferences.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

1. Website Operator

Iran Train Ticket is operated by and forms part of Markar Travel.

Markar Travel is an officially registered Iranian travel agency authorised to sell passenger train tickets for Iran’s railway network.

Official contact details:

Website: https://irantrainticket.com/
Email: info@irantrainticket.com
WhatsApp: +98 933 440 6373
Operating Travel Agency: Markar Travel
Country of Registration: Iran

2. What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file placed on a user’s browser or device when they visit a website.

Cookies may be used to:

• Maintain a user’s login session;
• Preserve Booking or shopping-basket information;
• Remember user choices and preferences;
• Protect the website and prevent fraud;
• Support forms, Bookings and payments;
• Measure website performance;
• Analyse how visitors use website pages;
• Provide relevant content where the user has consented.

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

A session cookie is normally deleted when the browser is closed. A persistent cookie remains on the device until its stated expiry date or until the user deletes it.

3. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

3.1. First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by irantrainticket.com.

They are generally used to support account access, Bookings, payments, website security and user preferences.

3.2. Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies are placed by an external service provider.

Such providers may include:

• Payment service providers;
• Analytics providers;
• Map or embedded-content providers;
• Customer-support tools;
• Embedded video providers;
• Advertising or marketing services.

Non-essential third-party cookies will be activated only after the user has provided valid consent.

4. Categories of Cookies

4.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies are required for the website’s essential functions and for services expressly requested by the user.

These cookies may be used to:

• Authenticate account access;
• Preserve Booking or basket information;
• Protect the website and prevent fraud;
• Maintain payment status;
• Prevent duplicate orders;
• Support technical stability;
• Record the user’s cookie preferences.

Strictly Necessary Cookies do not require separate consent because they are required to provide the service requested by the user.

Blocking these cookies through browser settings may prevent account access, Booking, payment or other essential website functions from working correctly.

4.2. Preference and Functionality Cookies

Preference and Functionality Cookies remember choices made by the user, such as:

• Language preferences;
• Interface settings;
• Recent searches or routes;
• Recently viewed services;
• Display preferences.

Preference Cookies that are not strictly necessary for a requested service will be activated only with the user’s consent.

Rejecting them will not prevent access to the main search and Booking services, but certain preferences may not be remembered during a future visit.

4.3. Analytics Cookies

Analytics Cookies help us understand how the website performs and how visitors use it.

They may collect statistical information about:

• The number of visitors;
• Pages viewed;
• Approximate time spent on pages;
• Technical errors;
• Navigation paths;
• Performance of the search and Booking process.

Analytics Cookies will be activated only after the user has provided consent.

If a third-party analytics service is used, its name, cookie details, purpose, provider and retention period will be listed in Cookie Settings.

4.4. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Advertising and Marketing Cookies may be used to:

• Measure advertising effectiveness;
• Limit repeated advertising;
• Create advertising audiences;
• Display advertising based on likely interests;
• Measure advertising conversions.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies will be activated only after the user has provided express consent.

Rejecting these cookies will not prevent the user from searching, Booking, making payments or receiving tickets.

Iran Train Ticket will not use personal information for behavioural advertising through a third party unless this use has been clearly disclosed and valid consent has been obtained.

5. Cookies Used by the Website and Account System

The website platform may use technical cookies to support essential operation, security and account management.

These cookies may be used to:

• Test whether the browser supports cookies;
• Authenticate users;
• Maintain login status;
• Prevent unauthorised access;
• Preserve interface preferences;
• Maintain session security;
• Verify legitimate requests;
• Prevent misuse or technical attacks.

Login and authentication cookies are generally created only when the user logs into an account or accesses a section that requires authentication.

The retention period may range from the end of the browser session to a limited period used to maintain login status.

If the user selects an option similar to “Remember Me”, the login status may be retained for a longer period.

Essential account and security cookies are used without separate consent because they are necessary to provide the requested account service.

6. Cookies Used by the Sales, Booking and Payment System

The sales and Booking system may use technical cookies to preserve travel, order and payment information.

These cookies may be used to:

• Preserve a selected route or travel date;
• Temporarily retain basket or Booking information;
• Identify changes to an order;
• Connect different stages of the purchase process;
• Prevent duplicate orders;
• Maintain payment status;
• Connect a payment result to the correct Booking;
• Display a Booking in the Customer’s account;
• Protect transaction security;
• Identify technical errors during the Booking process.

Some of these cookies remain only for the browser session. Others may remain for a short and limited period required to complete or confirm a Booking or payment.

Cookies required to preserve an order, process a payment, prevent fraud or deliver a ticket are classified as Strictly Necessary Cookies.

Blocking these cookies may prevent the user from:

• Preserving search or Booking details;
• Accessing an account;
• Completing payment;
• Viewing an order status;
• Receiving a ticket or Booking Confirmation.

Features such as saving recently viewed services or remembering non-essential preferences will be activated only with the user’s consent.

7. Technical Cookie Inventory

The current technical details of cookies used by the website must be available through:

Cookie Settings

The technical inventory should identify:

• The actual cookie name;
• The domain that places it;
• Whether it is a first-party or third-party cookie;
• Its purpose;
• Its category;
• Its retention period;
• Whether consent is required;
• The relevant third-party provider, where applicable.

The technical inventory must be based on an actual website scan and kept up to date.

A new non-essential cookie must not be activated until it has been properly classified, added to the inventory and made subject to the appropriate consent controls.

8. Comment and Form Preference Cookies

If comments or similar public forms are enabled, the user may be offered the option to save information such as their name, email address or website address for future submissions.

These Preference Cookies will be activated only if the user deliberately selects the option to save the information.

Saving this information is not required to submit a comment or form.

The relevant cookie name, purpose and retention period will be listed in Cookie Settings if this feature is active.

9. Session Cookies

Some Booking, account or payment functions may use a temporary session cookie.

A session cookie connects consecutive user requests to the same technical session and may be required to:

• Preserve Booking progress;
• Maintain security;
• Avoid duplicate transactions;
• Return the user to the correct order after payment.

A session cookie normally expires when the browser is closed or after a short period of inactivity.

The exact technical name and retention period will be displayed in Cookie Settings.

10. Cookie-Consent Preference

When a user selects their cookie preferences, a Strictly Necessary Cookie or similar storage method is used to record that choice.

The stored information may include:

• Whether non-essential cookies were accepted or rejected;
• The accepted cookie categories;
• The date of the choice;
• The version of the cookie notice or policy;
• An indirect identifier connected to the consent record.

This cookie is necessary to prevent the consent banner from being displayed repeatedly and to provide evidence of the user’s selection.

Its exact name and retention period depend on the consent-management tool used by the website and will be displayed in Cookie Settings.

11. Payment and Fraud-Prevention Cookies

Payment providers may place Strictly Necessary Cookies when a user is transferred to a payment page or returned to the website.

These cookies may be used to:

• Protect transaction security;
• Detect fraud;
• Maintain payment status;
• Prevent duplicate payment submissions;
• Connect a payment to the relevant order;
• Verify a valid return from the payment provider.

Essential payment and security cookies are used only to support the transaction.

If a payment provider also uses Analytics or Advertising Cookies, those cookies must be controlled by the relevant consent settings and the provider’s own privacy and cookie policies.

12. Embedded Content and External Services

Some pages may contain external content or services, including:

• Maps;
• Videos;
• Customer-support tools;
• WhatsApp buttons or widgets;
• Social-media content;
• External forms.

External non-essential content should not be loaded before the user has provided consent where loading it would place cookies or transfer information to a third party.

In such cases, the following type of notice may be displayed instead of the external content:

This external content requires your consent. Please accept the relevant cookies to display it.

If a user clicks an external link, such as a link to WhatsApp, and leaves the website, any later use of cookies will be governed by the external provider’s policies.

13. Similar Technologies

This policy also applies to technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:

• Local Storage;
• Session Storage;
• Pixels;
• Web Beacons;
• Tags;
• Software development kits;
• Device or browser identifiers.

Where these technologies are used for non-essential analytics, advertising or tracking, the same consent requirements that apply to non-essential cookies will apply.

14. User Consent

On the user’s first visit, the cookie banner should provide the following options:

Accept All
Reject All
Manage Preferences

Accept All and Reject All should be presented with similar prominence and accessibility.

No non-essential category should be selected in advance.

The following do not constitute valid consent:

• Silence;
• Continuing to use the website;
• Scrolling the page;
• Closing the banner without making a clear selection;
• Pre-ticked choices;
• Including cookie consent within general acceptance of the Terms and Conditions.

Consent must be freely given, informed, specific and demonstrated through a clear positive action.

15. Rejecting Non-Essential Cookies

Users may reject all non-essential cookies and continue to use the website’s main search, Booking and payment services.

Rejecting non-essential cookies may limit only features such as:

• Saved preferences;
• Embedded external content;
• Website analytics;
• Personalisation;
• Advertising functions.

Access to essential services must not be blocked solely because the user rejects Analytics or Advertising Cookies.

16. Changing or Withdrawing Consent

Users may change or withdraw their consent at any time.

The following link should remain available in the footer of every page:

Cookie Settings

Withdrawing consent must be as easy as giving consent.

Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of cookie use based on valid consent before withdrawal. However, future activation and use of the relevant cookies must stop.

After changing their preferences, users may also need to delete previously stored cookies through their browser settings.

17. Duration of Cookie Preferences

A user’s cookie selection will be retained only for a limited period.

The website may request a new selection after that period or following a material change to:

• Cookie purposes;
• Third-party providers;
• Cookie categories;
• Consent wording;
• Applicable legal requirements.

The retention period for each cookie and consent record must be displayed in Cookie Settings and must not be longer than reasonably necessary.

18. Managing Cookies Through Browser Settings

Users may view, delete or block cookies through their browser settings.

Blocking all cookies through the browser may interfere with:

• Account access;
• Preserving a basket or Booking;
• Completing payment;
• Confirming an order status;
• Website security.

Browser controls do not replace the website’s consent controls. Iran Train Ticket must respect the preferences selected through Cookie Settings.

19. International Processing and Transfers

Some technical, payment, analytics or external-content providers may process information in a country different from the user’s country of residence.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, the relevant provider, destination, purpose and applicable safeguard should be explained in the Privacy Policy or Cookie Settings.

Cookie consent must not be used to conceal or replace information about international data transfers.

20. Children’s Information

Iran Train Ticket services are not designed for independent Booking by children.

A Booking for a Passenger under the legal age must be made by a parent, legal guardian or authorised adult.

The website will not knowingly use Advertising Cookies to profile children.

21. Relationship with the Privacy Policy

Some cookies may create or collect information that directly or indirectly relates to an identifiable person.

The Privacy Policy provides further information about:

• The party responsible for processing personal information;
• The purposes and legal bases for processing;
• Recipients of information;
• Retention periods;
• User rights;
• International transfers;
• How to submit a privacy request.

This Cookie Policy and the Privacy Policy should be interpreted consistently and in accordance with any mandatory rights available to the user.

22. Keeping the Cookie Inventory Updated

Cookie names and purposes may change when the Booking system, payment provider, website features or external services are modified.

Iran Train Ticket should:

• Scan the website periodically;
• Identify newly added cookies and similar technologies;
• Review their categories and purposes;
• Display their name, provider, purpose and retention period in Cookie Settings;
• Block newly added non-essential cookies until the required consent has been obtained.

The technical list displayed in Cookie Settings should provide the most current and detailed cookie inventory.

23. Changes to This Cookie Policy

This policy may be amended to reflect changes to website technology, services, third-party providers or applicable legal requirements.

Where there is a material change to the use of non-essential cookies, previous consent will not automatically be treated as consent to a new purpose. A new consent request may be displayed.

The date of the latest revision will be shown at the beginning of this page.

24. Contact Information

For questions about this Cookie Policy or the website’s use of cookies, contact us through an official channel:

Website: Iran Train Ticket
Operating Travel Agency: Markar Travel
Country of Registration: Iran
Email: info@irantrainticket.com
WhatsApp: +98 933 440 6373
Website: https://irantrainticket.com/

Iran Train Ticket is operated by and forms part of Markar Travel, an officially registered Iranian travel agency authorised to sell passenger train tickets for Iran’s railway network.