Please read the following information carefully:

In order to comply with the requirements established by the EU Directive of 26 May 2012 and the provisions of Law no. 506 of November 17, 2004 on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, all website visitors are required to give their consent before sending cookies to their computers.

This website uses its own and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a much better browsing experience and services adapted to own needs and interests.

Cookies play an important role in facilitating access and delivery of the multiple services that the user enjoys on the Internet, such as:

• Customize certain settings such as: the language of the website, accessing previous preferences by accessing the "forward" and "backward" buttons.
• Cookies give site owners valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, so that they can make them even more efficient and accessible to users.
• Allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a particular site to create a more valuable, useful, and enjoyable browsing experience.

What is a cookie?

HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user’s computer or other device by the user’s web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user’s device during a session.

The cookie is installed through the request issued by a web server to a browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome) and is completely “passive” (does not contain software, viruses or spyware and can’t access information on the user’s hard drive).

Cookies themselves do not require personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify Internet users.

Cookies themselves do not require personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify Internet users.

There are two broad types of cookies:

1. Session cookies - these are temporarily stored in the cookies file of your Web browser for it to store them until the user exits the website in question or close the browser window (eg when logging /logging out of a webmail account or social networks).
2. Persistent cookies - these are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (and generally depends on the default cookie lifetime). Persistent cookies include those placed on another website than the one the user visits at the time - known as "third party cookies") - which can be used anonymously to store a user's interests, in order to deliver most relevant advertising to users.

What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information that connects a web browser (user) and a specific web server (website). If a web browser accesses the server again, it can read the information already stored and react accordingly. Cookies provide users an enjoyable experience browsing various websites and support the efforts of multiple websites in order to provide them a comfortable experience such as: online privacy preferences, language options on the website, shopping cart or relevant advertising.

What is the lifespan of a cookie?

Cookies are administered by the Webservers. The lifetime of a cookie can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used only for one session (session cookies) and are not retained once the user has left the website and some cookies are retained and reused each time the user returns to that website ('Persistent cookies'). Nevertheless, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time via your browser settings.

What are cookies placed by third parties??

Certain sections of content from some sites may be provided by third parties / suppliers (eg boxing news, a video or a commercial). Such third parties may also place cookies via the website and they are called "third party cookies" because yhey are placed by the owner of the website in question. Suppliers must also respect applicable law and the privacy policies of the website owner.

How cookies are used by this site?

Visiting a certain website may place cookies purposes:

• website Performance
• visitor analysis
• geotargetting
• visitor registration 

Performance cookies:

This type of cookie retains user preferences on this site, so there is no need of setting them at each visit to the site.

Examples: volume settings for video player, speed video streaming compatible with the browser.

Cookies for visitor analysis

Each time a user visits a website, the analytics software provided by a third party generates a cookie for analyzing the user. This cookie can tell whether you have visited the website before. The browser will tell if you have this certain cookie, and if not, it will generate one. It allows monitoring of unique users who visit the website and how often they access it.

As long as you are not registered on the website, this cookie may be used to identify individuals, and are used only for statistical purposes. If the vizitor previous registered, the details provided are known, such as e-mail and username - which are subject to confidentiality and the provisions of the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and legislation in force on the protection of personal data.

Cookies for geo-targeting

These cookies are used by a software that determines what country is the visitor coming from. It is completely anonymous and is only used to target content - even when the visitor is using the website in Romanian or in any another language, he will receive the same ad.

Registration Cookies

When a visitor registers on an website, it is generated a cookie that announces if the visitor was previous registered or not. The servers use cookies to show the account the visitor used for registration and if he is allowed to use particular service. It also allows any association between any comments the visitor posted on the website and his username. If the user has not selected "Keep me logged in", the cookie will be automatically deleted when the browser or the computer is being closed.

Other third-party cookies

On some web pages, other parties may set their own anonymous cookies in order to track the success of an application, or to customize an application.

For example, when an user shares an article using the social media icon, that social network will record his activity.

 What type of information is stored and accessed via cookies?

Cookies keep 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 Internet browsing experience (eg settings of the language in which the user wants to access a website; keeping a user logged into the webmail account; online banking security; keeping products in the shopping cart)

Why are cookies important for the Internet?

Cookies are the main focus of the efficient operation of the Internet, helping to generate a friendly browsing experience and adapted to each user's preferences and interests. Refusal or disabling cookies might make some websites impossible to use.

Examples of important uses of cookies (that does not require user authentication through an account):

• Contents and services adapted to user preferences - categories of news, weather, sports, maps, public services and government, entertainment sites and travel services.
• Offers adapted to users interests - saving passwords, language preferences (eg displaying search results in Romanian).
• Withholding child protection filters on Internet content (family mode options, Safe Search functions).
• Measurement, optimization and analytics features - such as confirming a certain level of traffic to a website, what type of content is viewed and how a user arrives on a website (eg. By search engines, by directly accesing the website, from other websites etc). Websites run these tests to improve online surfing for users.

Security and confidentiality issues

Cookies are NOT viruses!They use plain text format. They are not composed of pieces of code therefor they can not be executed nor auto-run. Consequently, you cannot duplicate or replicate them on other networks in order to run them again or replicate them. Because they cannot perform these functions they cannot be considered viruses.

Cookies can still be used for negative purposes. Since preferences and stores information about users' browsing history, both on a particular site and on several other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware are aware of this fact and constantly marks the cookies to be deleted in removal proceedings / scan anti-virus / anti-spyware.

Generally browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of acceptance cookies, the validity and erased automatically after the user has visited a particular site.

Tips for a safe and responsible navigation based on cookies.

• Customize your browser settings for cookies to reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you.
• If you share access to your computer, you can consider setting your browser to clear individual browsing data each time you close your browser. This is a way to access the sites that place cookies and to delete any visit information at the end of the browsing session.
• Install and constantly update your antispyware applications.
• Many of the spyware detection and prevention applications include site attack detection. This prevents the browser from accessing websites that could exploit browser vulnerabilities or download malicious software.

How do I turn off cookies?

Disabling and refusal to accept cookies might make certain websites impracticable or difficult to use.

It is possible to set the browser so that cookies will not be accepted or to set the browser to accept cookies from a particular site. But for example, if a visitor is not registered as using cookies, he will not be able to leave any comments.

All modern browsers allow you to change the setting of cookies. These settings are usually found in the "Settings" or in "Favorites" menu of your browser.