1. Cookie policy:
This policy refers to the cookies and web pages of the Lauris.ro website, operated by S.C. Lauris Company S.R.L. with registered office in Cluj-Napoca, str. Bucium no. 5, apartment 3.
2. What are Cookies?
The cookie is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other equipment of a user from which the Internet is accessed. The cookie is installed through the request issued by a web server to a browser (eg: Internet Explorer, Chrome) and is completely "passive" (it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information on the hard drive the user).
3. What are Cookies used for?
Cookies make it possible to recognize the user's terminal and present the content in a relevant way, adapted to the user's preferences. Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience: - online privacy preferences, the shopping cart or relevant advertising. Cookies are also used in the preparation of anonymous statistics that help us understand how the user benefits from our web pages, allowing us to improve the structure of the site, excluding its personal identification.
4. What cookies are used?
Two types of Cookies are used: session and fixed. The latter are temporary files that remain in the user's terminal until the end of the session or the closing of the web browser. The fixed files remain on the user's terminal for a period in the Cookie parameters or until they are manually deleted by the user.
5. How are cookies used by the Lauris.ro website?
The cookies used have the following roles:
- Website performance cookies
- Visitor analysis cookies
- Registration cookies
- Cookies for advertising
6. What do personal data cookies contain?
The cookies themselves do not require personal information to be used and do not personally identify Internet users. The personal data collected through the use of Cookies can only be collected to facilitate certain functionalities of the site, for the user. These cookies are encrypted in a way that makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to access them.
7. Deleting Cookies
In general, an application used to access web pages allows cookies to be saved on the terminal by default. These settings can be changed so that the automatic administration of Cookies is blocked by the web browser or the user is informed every time Cookies are sent to his terminal. Detailed information about the possibilities and ways of managing Cookies can be found in the settings area of the application (web browser). Limiting the use of Cookies may affect certain functionalities of the web page.
Examples of settings for the most used browsers:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Cookies#w_cookie-settings
Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/ro-ro/HT201265
Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
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 products and services.
- Offers adapted to the interests of users - retention of passwords.
- Retention of child protection filters regarding Internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
- Limiting the frequency of advertisements - 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 (eg 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.
9. 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.
In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period and automatic deletion after the user has visited a certain site.
Other security aspects related to cookies:
• Customizing your browser's cookie settings to reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you.
• If you are the only person using the computer, you can optionally set long expiration periods for storing your browsing history and personal access data.
• If you share computer access, you may consider setting your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close the browser. This is an option to access sites that place cookies and delete any visit information when you close your browsing session.
11. Links and additional useful information
If you want to find out more information about cookies and what they are used for, we recommend the following links:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro/