Since we use cookie technology and process your data. We can ensure that the information displayed will be tailored to your interests. By accepting the use of this technology as well as the processing of data received in this way by the subscriber, also in the framework of profiling, market analysis and statistics, we make it easier for you to find the information that interests you most, and help us to tailor advertisements and communications to suit your needs.
We also want to present you with offers that are closest to your preferences and interests. With your consent, you allow us to prepare offers, discounts, based on our analysis of your online activity. These offers can significantly influence your purchasing decisions. The offer is intended for persons over 18 years of age.
You can agree to the above by clicking on the button below. We care about your privacy and your agreements can be revoked at any time, which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing we will do before they are withdrawn.
What are cookies?
Cookies are a small file, generally made up of letters and numbers (encoded), sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back (unchanged) by the browser each time it accesses that server.
Cookies are created when a user’s browser displays a particular website. The website transmits information to the browser and the browser creates a text file. Each time the user accesses that website again, the browser accesses and transmits this file to the web server where that website is hosted. In other words, the cookie can be seen as an Internet user identification card that notifies the website each time the user returns to that website.
The purpose of using cookies
Cookies can ensure faster and easier interaction between users and websites. For example, when a user logs in to a particular website, the login details are stored in a cookie; the user can then access that website without having to log in again.
In other cases, cookies may be used to store information about the user’s activities on a particular web page, so that the user can easily resume those activities on a subsequent visit to the site. Cookies tell the server which pages to show the user, so that the user does not have to remember this or navigate the whole site from the beginning. Thus, cookies can be likened to „bookmarks” that tell the user exactly where they left off within a website.
It is important to note that websites in Romania are required to publicly specify whether they use cookies and for what purpose.
What types of cookies do we use?
3.1. Session-specific cookies online
Web pages have no memory. A user who navigates from one web page to another will be considered by the website as a new user. Session specific cookies store an identifier that allows the user to move from one web page to another without having to enter the identifying information (username, password, etc.) each time. Session-specific cookies are stored in the user’s computer memory only for the duration of an Internet browsing session and are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. They may also become inaccessible if the session has been inactive for a certain period of time (usually 20 minutes).
3.2. Permanent, persistent or stored cookies
Persistent cookies are stored on the user’s computer and are not deleted when the browsing session is closed. These cookies can remember the user’s preferences for a particular website so that they can be used in other web browsing sessions.
In addition to login information, persistent cookies can also remember details about the language and theme selected on a particular website, menu preferences of a website, favourite pages within a website, etc. When the user accesses a website for the first time, it is presented by default. Afterwards, the user selects a set of preferences, which are then remembered by cookies and used when the user visits the site again. For example, a website offers its content in several languages. On the first visit, the user selects English, and the site retains this preference in a cookie. When the user visits the site again, the content will automatically be displayed in English.
Flash cookies
If the user has Adobe Flash installed on their computer, small files may be stored in the memory of that computer by websites that contain Flash elements (such as videos). These files are known as „local shared objects” or „flash cookies” and can be used for the same purposes as regular cookies.
3.4. First party cookies vs third party cookies
Each cookie has an „owner” – the website/Internet domain that places that cookie.
First party cookies are placed by the Internet domain/website accessed by the user (whose address appears in the browser address bar). For example, if the user visits carena.co.uk and the cookie domain placed on his/her computer is carena.co.uk, then this is a first party cookie.
A third party cookie is set by a different Internet domain/website than the one accessed by the user; this means that the website accessed also contains information from a third party website – for example, an advertising banner that appears on the website accessed. Thus, if the user visits carena.ro but the cookie placed on his/her computer has the domain www.trafic.ro, then it is a third party cookie.
Cookies from an IT security and privacy perspective
Although cookies are stored in the memory of the Internet user’s computer, they cannot access/read other information on that computer. Cookies are not viruses. They are just small text files; they are not compiled as code and cannot be executed. Thus, they cannot self-copy, they cannot spread to other networks to generate actions and they cannot be used to spread viruses.
Cookie legislation
Legislation on the use of cookies from the perspective of the European Union and Romania.
The European Union’s Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC, provides that:
„Art.5 – (3) Member States shall ensure that the storage of information or the gaining of access to information already stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is permitted only on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his consent, after having received clear and full information, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia, as to the purposes of the processing. This shall not prevent storage or technical access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of the communication over an electronic communications network or where this is strictly necessary in order for the provider to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.”
These provisions have been transposed into national law in Law 506/2004 on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, as subsequently amended and supplemented:
„Art.4 – (5) Storing information or obtaining access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is allowed only if the following conditions are cumulatively met:
(a) the subscriber or user concerned has given his consent;
(b) the subscriber or user concerned has been provided, prior to the expression of consent, in accordance with the provisions of Article 12 of Law No 677/2001, as amended, with clear and complete information which:
is set out in language that is easy to understand and readily accessible to the subscriber or user;
include information on the purpose of processing of the information stored by the subscriber or user or the information to which the subscriber or user has access.
Where the provider allows third parties to store or access information stored on the subscriber’s or user’s terminal equipment, the information in accordance with points (i) and (ii) shall include the general purpose of the processing of such information by third parties and how the subscriber or user may use web browser settings or other similar technologies to delete the stored information or to deny third parties access to such information.
(51) The agreement referred to in paragraph 1 shall be deemed to have been entered into in accordance with the provisions of this Article. (5)(a) may also be given through the use of web browser application settings or other similar technologies through which the subscriber or user may be deemed to have given consent.
(6) The provisions of paragraph (5) shall be without prejudice to the possibility to carry out storage or technical access to stored information in the following cases:
(a) where such operations are carried out for the sole purpose of the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network;
(b) where such operations are strictly necessary for the supply of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.”
Managing, disabling and deleting cookies
Detailed information on how to manage, disable and delete cookies for the most important browsers is provided below:
6.1. Internet Explorer
To delete cookies from Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer for Desktop;
Tap or click the Tools button, point to Security, then tap or click Clear Browsing History;
Check the Cookie modules check box, then tap or click Delete;
To block or allow cookies:
Open Internet Explorer for Desktop.
Tap or click the Tools button, then tap or click Internet Options.
Tap or click the Privacy tab, then under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies, then tap or click OK.
If you block cookies, some pages may not display correctly.
6.2. Mozilla Firefox
To check or change your settings:
a) At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click Options at the top of the Firefox window, click the Tools menu and select Options …;
b) Select the Privacy pane;
c) Set Firefox will: with the Use custom settings for history option;
d) Check the Accept cookies from web sites box to enable cookies and uncheck it to disable cookies;
e) Choose the allowed cookie storage duration:
Keep until: when it expires: Each cookie will be deleted when it reaches its expiration date, which is set by the site that issued it;
Keep until: when I close Firefox: Cookies stored on your computer will be deleted when Firefox is closed;
Keep until: asks every time: Displays a message every time a sait tries to send a cookie and asks you whether you want to store it or not;
f) Click OK to close the Options window;
6.3. Google Chrome
To control the cookie settings in Google Chrome go through the following steps:
a) Click the Chrome Chrome menu in the browser toolbar;
b) select Settings;
c) Click Show advanced settings;
d) In the Privacy section, click the Content Settings button;
e) In the „Cookies” section, you can change the following cookie settings.
IF YOU DEACTIVATE COOKIE-URIES, OUR WEBSITE MAY NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY, THIS BEING THE DECISION OF THE USER.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about cookies, please contact us at info@plastitgroup.com