About cookies

This website uses its own and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a much better browsing experience and services tailored to each person’s needs and interests.

1.What are „cookies”?

A „cookie” is a small file, usually encrypted, located in the folders of the web browser you are using. „Cookies” are created by online content producers for site users in order to help them navigate the Internet more efficiently and to grant access to certain functions.

These files are not viruses. Since these files do not contain code, they cannot be executed or access other files or folders on your computer. Since they store information about a user’s Internet browsing, both specific addresses and navigation between various sites, „cookies” can be used as a form of spyware. Anti-spyware programs, being aware of this possible problem, eliminate certain „cookies” following routine checks.

2. Why do we use „cookies”?

We use „cookies” to provide users of this website with a better browsing experience and services tailored to their needs and interests, for statistical analysis of how the website is used, in order to improve the site. Cookies help us to:

customize certain settings such as: the language in which a site is viewed, the currency in which certain prices or rates are expressed, and preserve options for various products/services

give us valuable feedback on how the site is used by users, so that we can make it even more efficient and accessible to users

allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a particular site to create a more valuable, useful and enjoyable browsing experience

improve the effectiveness of online advertising

Sometimes, „cookies” can be used to keep track of your visits to third-party websites.

3. What kind of „cookies” do we use?

In terms of storage time, we use:

Persistent „cookies”; these remain on the user’s device for a specific period of time, specified in the „cookie” (usually 2 years). They are used each time the user visits the address that created that file.

Session cookies; these files are temporary. They allow website operators to connect the actions that a user takes during an internet browsing session.

We also use four different types of cookies for functionality:

Strictly necessary cookies; these are essential to be able to navigate the website and use its applications. Without them, users would not be able to use basic services such as creating an account or using a shopping cart. These files do not collect information about users that could be used for marketing purposes or tracking the user on the internet.

Performance cookies; these collect anonymous statistical data on how the website is used. They do not contain personal information and are used to improve the user experience when browsing the website.

Functionality cookies; through them, the operator allows users to choose different options and features of the website. For example, some functionality cookies are the ability to opt for password saving, language preferences, region, the ability to provide personal information such as current location or weather or traffic data from the user’s location.

Advertising and targeting cookies; used to improve the relevance of the advertisements delivered to you. They can also limit the number of times an advertisement is displayed that is considered irrelevant or track the effectiveness of an advertising campaign by maintaining statistics on the number of visits by users. Also, an important function that some of these cookies have is to provide security in the case of online transactions. Typically, these „cookies” are used by third-party operators, being able to make a connection between the web pages visited by the user, but not being able to identify the user’s identity, as no connection is made between your online profile and the processed data.

We have third-party cookies on our website. Third parties, such as advertising companies or external service providers, such as web traffic analysis, may use cookies or other similar plug-ins to collect information about your visit to our website.

4. How can you disable cookies?

First of all, you should know that, once you delete cookies, all preferences and settings related to the website will be deleted. Also, some websites will no longer function properly or some functions will disappear if you delete cookies.

We do not recommend, for these reasons, choosing to reject cookies when visiting our website. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change this option depending on the browser you use. To do this, you usually need to access the „settings” or „preferences” option of your browser. For more details you can access one of the links below:

Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/ro/kb/enable-or-disable-cookies-firefox-androidinformationwebsites-store-on-your-computer?redirectlocale=enUS&redirectslug=Cookies

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

5.Security and privacy issues

Cookies are NOT viruses! They are not made up of pieces of code so they cannot be executed or self-run, they cannot duplicate or replicate on other networks to run or replicate again.

Generally, browsers have built-in privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a particular site.

Cookies are not dangerous, but because they constantly transmit information in both directions between the browser and the website, if an attacker or unauthorized person intervenes in the data transmission process, the information contained in the cookie can be intercepted. Although very rare, this can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (e.g. an unsecured WiFi network).

Other cookie-based attacks involve incorrect cookie settings on servers, which can be exploited by attackers.

It is important to know that disabling cookies will not allow users to access the most widespread and used sites such as Gmail, Yahoo, Youtube and others. There are some basic security measures you can adopt to browse safely with cookies.

Customize your browser settings regarding cookies to reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you. You can set long expiration dates for storing browsing history and personal access data.

If you share your computer with other people, you can set your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close your browser.

Install and update antispyware applications regularly

Make sure your browser is always up to date; many cookie-based attacks exploit vulnerabilities in older versions of browsers.