Cookie policy
1. Cookie usage policy
This policy refers to the cookies and web pages maintained by SC BARHAT LASH SRL located in str. Vasile Vasilievici Stroescu nr 2, Sector 2, Bucharest, hereby named Operator.
2. What is a Cookie?
The Cookie is a small file, made up of a string of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile device or any other equipment that the user uses in order to access the internet. The cookie is installed through the request done by a web browser (for instance, Internet Explorer, Chrome) and it’s completely “passive” (it doesn’t contain any software programs, viruses or spyware and it cannot access information stored on the user’s hard drive).
3. What are Cookies used for?
These files make it possible to recognize the user’s terminal and to present to them content in a relevant manner, adapted to the user’s preferences. The cookie ensures that users will have a pleasant navigating experience and underline the Operator’s efforts in order to offer comfortable services to the users: for instance – preferences with regards to online confidentiality, shopping cart or relevant marketing. They are also used in preparing some anonymous statistics which help us better understand how a user benefits from our webpages, thus allowing us to improve their structure and content, excluding the user’s personal identification.
4. Which Cookie types do we use?
We use two types of Cookies: per session and fixed. The per session ones are temporary files which remain in the user’s device until the session is finished or the app is closed (the web browser). The fixed one remain on the user’s device for a defined period specified by the Cookie’s parameters or until they are manually deleted by the user.
5. How do we use cookies on this site?
If you visit this website, it can save the following types of cookies:
- Cookies for site performance
- Cookies to analyze visitors
- Cookies for registering
- Cookies for marketing
- Cookies for the marketing material suppliers
6. Do Cookies contain personal information?
The cookies themselves don’t request personal information in order to be used and most of the time, they cannot personally identify the internet users. The personal information collected through the usage of Cookies can be gathered only to facilitate some functionalities for the user. This information is encrypted in a way which makes it impossible to access by any unauthorized persons.
7. Deleting Cookies
Generally, an app that is used to access web pages allow saving of the Cookies on the device by default. These settings can be changed in such a way that the automatic managing of the Cookies is to be rejected by the web browser or that the user is informed each time that Cookies are sent towards their device. The detailed information with regards to the possibilities and administration of Cookies can be found in the app settings (of the web browser). Limiting the usage of the Cookies can negatively impact certain website functionality.
8. Why are cookies important for the Internet?
The cookies are the backbone of the efficient working of the Internet, as it helps to generate a pleasant navigating experience and also adapting the preferences and interests for each user. Rejecting or deactivating the cookies can make some sites impossible to navigate.
Rejecting or deactivating cookies doesn’t mean that you won’t receive any more ads online – it just means that the cookies will not be able to take into account your preferences and interests gathered through your navigating history.
Examples of some important roles for the cookies (which don’t require authenticating a user via an account):
- Content and services which are adapted to the user’s preferences – product and service categories.
- Offers adapted by the user’s interests – saving passwords.
- Maintaining some protection filters for children with regards to the content online (family mode options, safe search functions).
- Limiting the frequency of adds – limiting the displaying of an add for a certain user that is accessing the site.
- Giving more relevant ads for the user.
- Measuring, optimizing and various analytics – such as confirming a certain traffic level on a website, what type of content is viewed and the way in which a user reaches the website (for instance through search engines, directly, from other sites, etc). The websites undergo these analytics for usage in order to improve the site in ways that benefit users.
9. Useful links
If you want to learn more about cookies and what exactly they are used for, we recommend the following links:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro/
