Cookie Policy

What are cookies and how are they used?

In this section, you will find information about what cookies are, what their purpose is, and what the implications are for you as a result of accepting the cookies used by the website de-a-arhitectura.ro.

Cookies are small files that are saved when accessing a website in the browser used by the device accessing the site online. Each subsequent access to the website, the browser sends this file to the server of the respective site, in order to allow the identification of a visitor who has returned to the site.

Websites use cookies to facilitate the offering of functionalities to visitors that cannot be ensured without them by the HTTP protocol, which is the most commonly used protocol for accessing online information from web servers (www). These functionalities consist of managing user sessions, maintaining an authenticated session, keeping preferences on a visited page (for example, aspects related to functionality or graphical display of pages), keeping products in a shopping cart, and others.

When you access the website as a visitor, a cookie is sent to your internet browser and saved on your computer’s hard drive, but saving cookies can be blocked by changing your browser’s settings.

If you want to delete cookie files stored on your devices and configure your web browser to refuse cookie files, you can use the preference settings in your web browser. Usually, you can find the navigation settings related to cookie files in the “Options”, “Tools”, or “Preferences” menus of the web browser you use to access websites. Depending on the existing web browsers, various means can be used to disable cookie files.

To learn more about cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org or https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie.

Cookies can store information that has personal character (for example, the visitor’s identification code, personalized preferences, or a history of visited pages). This information is not generated by cookies but by the visitor when they fill out online forms.

Although cookies are stored in the memory of the device used to access a site, they cannot access or read other information stored in that device. Cookies are not viruses; they are not compiled in the form of code and cannot be executed. Consequently, they cannot self-replicate, spread to other networks to generate certain actions, and cannot be used for the spread of viruses.

Based on duration, cookies can be either session or permanent:

  • Session cookies have a temporary storage duration, limited to the duration of the session in which a particular visitor accesses the site. When the session or browser is closed, all stored information is deleted.
  • Permanent cookies are stored on the visitor’s device and are not deleted when the session or browser is closed.

What cookies does this site use?

The cookies used by this site are its own cookies.

Cookies are used for the purpose of analyzing traffic and the performance of the monitored and accessed site.

For the analysis of traffic and website performance, we use analysis tools offered by Google Analytics, which store information about the pages accessed, the duration of the visit, the mode/device of access, in order to analyze how the pages are used, interaction with the pages, and the navigation options of the visitors. The characteristics analyzed (web measurement indicators) are anonymized.

Google Analytics cookies show us which pages are most visited, what difficulties occur during navigation, or show us the size of the traffic on the site. This allows us, among other things, to determine user behavior, without identifying visitors at the individual level.

More information about the use of cookies by Google Analytics can be found here: Google Analytics Cookie Usage

More information about the security principles and data protection in Google Analytics can be found here: Google Analytics Privacy

By pressing the acceptance button, you accept the cookies used by us.

If you do not agree with the use of cookies, they can be blocked at any time from your browser settings. The browser offers functionalities for setting the security level of the information, so you can choose not to have your preferences recorded.

At any time, you have the possibility to delete the cookies stored on the device you are using. Depending on the browser used, these steps may be different.

Visitors of this site benefit from all the rights provided by the legislation on the protection of personal data, as follows:

  • the right to information;
  • the right of access to data;
  • the right to rectification;
  • the right to erasure of data (“the right to be forgotten”);
  • the right to restriction of processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to object to data processing;
  • the right not to be subject to an automated individual decision;
  • the right to address the National Authority for Supervision of Personal Data Processing or competent courts.

For additional information, you can consult the following documents and public information sources:

General Data Protection Regulation No. 679/2016 (“GDPR”) GDPR

Opinion No. 4/2012 on cookies exempted from obtaining consent, issued by the Article 29 Working Party Article 29 Working Party Opinion https://www.aboutcookies.org/ https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ https://iab-romania.ro/

“Cookie”, Wikipedia.org Cookie – Wikipedia

“Guidance on the rule of use of cookies and similar technologies”, UK Information Commissioner’s Office, May 2012 UK ICO Cookies Guidance

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