This website uses its own and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a better browsing experience and services tailored to their needs and interests. The complete list of third-party cookies can be consulted below.
Additionally, this website contains links to third-party websites; once these links are accessed, users are subject to the respective website’s policy.
Cookies play an important role in facilitating access to and delivery of multiple services that the user enjoys on the Internet, such as:
- Personalizing certain settings like: the language in which a site is viewed, the currency in which certain prices or rates are expressed, maintaining options for various products (sizes, other details, etc.).
- Providing website owners with valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, making them more efficient and accessible for users.
- Allowing multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a particular site to create a more valuable, useful, and pleasant browsing experience.
What is a “cookie”?
An “Internet Cookie” (also known as a “browser cookie” or “HTTP cookie” or simply “cookie”) is a small file, made up of letters and numbers, that is stored on the user’s computer, mobile terminal, or other equipment used to access the Internet. The cookie is installed through a request issued by a web server to a browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) and is completely “passive” (it does not contain software programs, viruses, or spyware and cannot access information on the user’s hard drive).
A cookie consists of two parts: its name and the content or value of the cookie. Moreover, the lifetime of a cookie is determined; technically, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that web server.
Cookies themselves do not require personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify internet users. There are two large categories of cookies:
- Session cookies – These are stored temporarily in the cookie file of the web browser so that it can remember them until the user exits the website or closes the browser window (e.g., when logging in/logging out of a webmail account or social network).
- Persistent cookies – These are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (and generally depend on the predetermined lifetime for the cookie). Persistent cookies include those placed by a different website than the one the user is visiting at that moment – known as ‘third-party cookies’ – which can be used anonymously to remember a user’s interests so that advertising is delivered as relevant as possible to the user.
What are the advantages of cookies?
Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifetime of a cookie can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookies) and are not retained after the user leaves the website, while other cookies are retained and reused every time the user returns to that website (‘persistent cookies’). However, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time through browser settings.
How are cookies used by this site?
First-Party and Essential Cookies:
- moove_gdpr_popup
- Source: urfpartners.ro
- Persistence: until the browser cache is cleared or 1 year
- Role: Must be enabled at all times so that we can save preferences for cookie settings.
- analytics
- Source: urfpartners.ro
- Persistence: until the browser cache is cleared
- Role: Stores the setting for accepting or refusing the loading of the Google Analytics script in the GDPR panel.
- Source: urfpartners.ro
- Persistence: until the browser cache is cleared
- Role: Stores the setting for accepting or refusing the loading of the Facebook Pixel script in the GDPR panel.
Third-Party Cookies:
- _ga
- Source: Google Analytics
- Persistence: 2 years
- Role: Stores anonymous information about user interaction with the site (e.g., time and date of interaction with various marketing materials or pages that brought the user to the site). Details: Google Cookie Types
- _gid
- Source: Google Analytics
- Persistence: 24 hours
- Role: Stores anonymous information about user interaction with the site (e.g., time and date of interaction with various marketing materials or pages that brought the user to the site). Details: Google Cookie Types
- _gat
- Source: Google Tag Manager
- Persistence: 1 minute
- Role: This cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to identify users and events on the site and how they interact with our site. The collected data is anonymous. Details: Google Cookie Types
- fr
- Source: facebook.com
- Persistence: 3 months
- Role: This cookie sends the encrypted Facebook ID and browser ID, used for selection, remarketing, and tracking users in Facebook campaigns.
Sessions:
- PHPSESSID
- Source: local
- Persistence: until the end of the session
- Role: Enables the translation of data from one page to another for the current session.
What type of information is stored and accessed through cookies?
Cookies store information in a small text file that allows a website to recognize a browser. The web server will recognize the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the browsing experience on the Internet (e.g., user session ID, referral page, current time, etc.).
Why are cookies important for the Internet?
Cookies are the central point of the efficient operation of the Internet, helping to generate a friendly browsing experience tailored to the preferences and interests of each user. Refusing or disabling cookies can make some sites impossible to use. Refusing or disabling cookies does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising – it just means that it will not be able to consider your preferences and interests, evidenced by your browsing behavior.
Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require user authentication through an account):
- Content and services tailored to user preferences.
- Offers tailored to user interests – language preferences (e.g., displaying search results in Romanian).
- 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 reaches a website (e.g., through search engines, directly, from other websites, etc.). Websites conduct these usage analyses to improve their sites for the benefit of users.
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 nor can they auto-run. Consequently, they cannot duplicate or replicate on other networks to run or replicate again. Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses. However, cookies can be used for negative purposes. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this and consistently mark cookies for deletion in anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures.
In general, 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.
How can I stop cookies?
Disabling and refusing to receive cookies can make certain sites impractical or difficult to visit and use. Also, refusing to accept cookies does not mean you will no longer receive/see online advertising.
It is possible to set your browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted, or you can set your browser to accept cookies from a specific site.
All modern browsers offer the possibility to change cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be useful, or you can use the “help” option in your browser for more details:
