Cookies policy

This website uses its own and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a better browsing experience and services adapted to everyone’s needs and interests. These cookies may come from the following third parties: Google Analytics, Facebook, Google+, Twitter. On this website there are links to third-party websites; once these links are accessed, users are subject to the policy of the respective website.

In what we call “web 2.0”, “cookies” play an important role in facilitating the access and delivery of the multiple services that the user enjoys on the Internet, such as:

Customizing certain settings such as: the language in which a site is viewed, the currency in which certain prices or tariffs are expressed, keeping the options for various products (measures, other details, etc.).
Cookies provide site owners with valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, so that they can make them more efficient and accessible to users.
They allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a certain site to create a more valuable, useful and pleasant browsing experience.
Improve the effectiveness of online advertising.

What is a „cookie”?

An “Internet Cookie” (term also known as “browser cookie” or “HTTP cookie” or simply “cookie”) is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which is stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other a user’s equipment from which the Internet is accessed. The cookie is installed by a request issued by a web server to a browser (eg: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) and is completely “passive” (it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information on the hard drive the user’s drive).

A cookie consists of 2 parts: the name and the content or value of the cookie. Moreover, the duration of existence of a cookie is determined; technically, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that web server.

Cookies themselves do not require personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify Internet users. There are 2 large categories of cookies:

Session cookies – these are temporarily stored in the cookie folder of the web browser so that it remembers them until the user leaves the respective website or closes the browser window (eg when logging in/out of an account webmail or on social networks).
Persistent Cookies – These are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (and generally depends on the cookie lifetime). Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at the time – known as ‘third party cookies’ – which can be used anonymously to remember a user’s interests, so that the most relevant advertising for users is delivered.
What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information that connects a web-browser (the user) and a specific web-server (the website). If a browser accesses that web-server again, it can read the information already stored and react accordingly. Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to offer comfortable services to users: eg – online privacy preferences, website language options, shopping carts or relevant advertising.

What is the lifetime of a cookie?

Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifetime of a cookie can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookies) and are no longer retained once the user has left the website and some cookies are retained and reused each time the user returns to that website (‘cookie- permanent ures’). However, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time through the browser settings.

What are cookies placed by third parties?

Certain sections of content on some sites may be provided through third parties/providers (eg: news box, a video or an advertisement). These third parties can also place cookies through the website and they are called “third party cookies” because they are not placed by the owner of the respective website. Third-party providers must also comply with the law in force and the privacy policies of the website owner.

How are cookies used by this site?

A visit to this website may place cookies for the purposes of:

Website performance cookies

Visitor analysis cookies
Registration cookies
Cookies for advertising

Performance cookies

This type of cookie remembers the user’s preferences on this site, so there is no need to set them every time you visit the site. Example:

volume settings for the video player
the video streaming speed with which the browser is compatible

Cookies for visitor analysis

Every time a user visits this site, the analytics software provided by a third party generates a user analysis cookie. This cookie tells us if you have visited this site before.

The browser will tell us if you have this cookie, and if not, we will generate one. It allows the monitoring of unique users who visit us and how often they do so. As long as you are not registered on this site, this cookie cannot be used to identify individuals, they are used only for statistical purposes.

If you are registered, we can also know the details you have provided us, such as your e-mail address and username – these being subject to confidentiality and the provisions of the Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy as well as the provisions of the legislation in force regarding the protection of personal data.

Cookies for geotargetting

These cookies are used by a software that determines which country you come from. It is completely anonymous and is only used to customize the content of our website.

Registration cookies

When you register on this site, we generate a cookie that tells us if you are registered or not. Our servers use these cookies to show us the account you are registered with and if you have permission for a specific service. It also allows us to associate any comment you post on our site with your username. If you have not selected the “Keep me registered” option, this cookie will be automatically deleted when you close your browser or computer.

Cookies for advertising

These cookies allow us to find out if you have viewed an online advertisement or not, what is its type and how much time has passed since you saw the advertising message. We also use these cookies to target online advertising. We may also use cookies belonging to a third party, for better targeting of advertising, to show, for example, advertisements about vacations, if the user has recently visited an article on the website about vacations. These cookies are anonymous, they store information about the viewed content, not about users. We also set anonymous cookies through other sites on which we advertise. By receiving them in this way, we can use them to recognize you as a visitor of that site if you later visit our site, we will be able to deliver advertising based on this information.

Advertising provider cookies

A large part of the advertising you find on this site belongs to third parties. Some of these parties use their own anonymous cookies to analyze how many people have been exposed to an advertising message, or to see how many people have been exposed to the same advertisement several times. The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and this site does not have access to read or write these cookies. Third-party cookies can be used to show you targeted advertising on other sites as well, based on your browsing on this site.

Other third-party cookies

On some pages, third parties can set their own anonymous cookies, in order to track the success of an application, or to customize an application. Due to the way of use, this site cannot access these cookies, just as third parties cannot access the cookies owned by this site. For example, when you share an article using the social network button on this site, that social network will record your activity.

What type of information is stored and accessed through cookies?

Cookies store information in a small text file that allows a website to recognize a browser. The webserver recognizes your browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the Internet browsing experience (for example: the language settings in which you want to access a site; keeping a user logged in to the webmail account; online banking security; keeping the products in the shopping cart).

Why are cookies important to the Internet?

Cookies represent the central point of the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to generate a friendly browsing experience adapted to the preferences and interests of each user. Refusing or disabling cookies may make some sites unusable. Rejecting or deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising – but only that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior.

Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require the authentication of a user through an account):

Content and services adapted to the user’s preferences – categories of news, weather, sports, maps, public and government services, entertainment sites and travel services.
Oferte adaptate pe interesele utilizatorilor – retinerea parolelor, preferintele de limba (De exemplu: afisarea rezultatelor cautarilor in limba Romana).
Retention of child protection filters regarding Internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
Limiting the frequency of advertising broadcasts – limiting the number of times an advertisement is displayed for a certain user on a site.
Providing more relevant advertising to the user.
Measurement, optimization and analytics features – such as confirming a certain level of traffic on a website, what type of content is viewed and how a user arrives at a website (for example: through search engines, directly, from other websites etc.). The websites carry out these analyzes of their use in order to improve the sites for the benefit of the users.
Security and privacy issues

Cookies are NOT viruses! They use plain text formats. They are not made up of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed or auto-run. Consequently, they cannot be duplicated or replicated on other networks to run or replicate again.

Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses. Cookies can still be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about the preferences and browsing history of users, both on a specific site and on several other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware.

Many anti-spyware products are aware of this fact and constantly mark cookies to be deleted during anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures.