Cookie policy

Cookie policy

The usa-garaj.ro site uses cookies.

The information that follows is intended to tell the user more about how the cookies used by the usa-garaj.ro site are placed, used and managed.

If you need more information and it is not set out below, you can contact us at the e-mail address office@abbaconfort.ro.

Please read the following information carefully:

This website may use both its own cookies and third-party cookies, in order to give visitors a much better browsing experience and services suited to the needs and interests of each.

Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to block certain types of cookie coming from this site.

Cookies play an important part in making it easier to reach and deliver the many services a user enjoys on the internet, such as:

• Personalising certain settings, such as: the language a site is viewed in, the currency certain prices or rates are expressed in, keeping the options for various products (measurements, other details and so on) in the shopping cart (and remembering those options), and saving certain preferences for future use.
• Cookies give site owners valuable feedback on how their sites are used, so that they can make them still more effective and easier to reach.
• They allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be embedded in a given site, to create a browsing experience that is more valuable, more useful and more pleasant.
• They improve the effectiveness of online advertising.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file made up of letters and numbers, which is stored on the computer, mobile device or other equipment a user accesses the internet from.

The cookie is installed at the request of a web server to a browser (for example Chrome or Firefox) and is entirely “passive” (it contains no software, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information on the user’s hard drive).

A cookie has 2 parts: the name, and the content or value of the cookie. Its lifetime is also fixed; technically, only the web server that sent the cookie can read it again when a user returns to the website associated with that server.

Cookies themselves do not require personal information in order to work and, in most cases, do not personally identify internet users.

There are 2 broad categories of cookie:

• Session cookies – these are stored temporarily in the web browser’s cookie folder, so that the browser keeps them until the user closes the browser window or signs out of the site.
• Persistent cookies – these are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (and generally depend on the lifetime set for the cookie). Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at the time – known as ‘third party cookies’ – which can be used anonymously to remember a user’s preferences.

What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information linking a web browser (the user) to a particular web server (the website). If a browser reaches that web server again, the server can read the information already stored and respond accordingly. Cookies give users a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to offer convenient services: for example – online privacy preferences, site language options, shopping carts or relevant advertising.

How long does a cookie last?

Cookies are managed by web servers. A cookie’s lifetime can vary a great deal, depending on the purpose it was placed for. Some cookies are used only for a single session (session cookies) and are no longer kept once the user has left the website, while others are kept and reused each time the user returns to that website (permanent cookies). Even so, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time through the browser settings.

What are third-party cookies?

Certain sections of content on some sites may be supplied by third parties or providers (for example a video, an advertisement or a chat application). These third parties may also place cookies through the site, and they are called “third party cookies” because they are not placed by the owner of that website. Third-party providers must also comply with the law in force and with the site owner’s privacy policies.

How this site uses cookies

Cookies give users a pleasant browsing experience and support our efforts to offer convenient services through features such as online privacy preferences, the shopping cart or relevant advertising. They are also used to prepare anonymous aggregate statistics that help us understand how a user makes use of our web pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content, without identifying the user personally.

A visit to this site may place the following types of cookie:

• Essential cookies
• Performance cookies
• Social media and advertising cookies

Certain cookies, such as performance cookies or social media and advertising cookies, may come from third parties.

Essential cookies

These cookies make it possible both to save your preferences about the other types of cookie used and to reach the basic features of this site.

They remember the user’s preferences on this site, so that they do not have to be set again on every visit.

Registration cookies are created when a user registers on this site, so as to tell us later whether they are registered or not. Our servers use these cookies to show us which account you are registered with and to make your interaction with the site easier.

Other cookies we place so that you can use the site to best effect are: cookies for the shopping cart and Favourites lists (which save the details of products you have added to the cart or marked as Favourites); location cookies (used to establish your location from your IP address, in order to pre-fill certain fields needed for registration or for placing orders); session cookies created when you arrive and deleted automatically when the browser closes (needed for the HTTP protocol to work, for filling in certain forms, for interacting with certain elements of the site and so on); cookies that recognise the type of device used – desktop or mobile; and cookies belonging to chat applications that allow real-time conversations with customer service.

Performance cookies

They include both cookies from traffic analysis services and cookies placed by certain third-party services that add features to the site.

Traffic analysis cookies allow site traffic to be measured in aggregate and traffic sources to be identified; they provide information about the most and least visited pages, and about how users interact with the site. The information listed is collected in aggregate and therefore entirely anonymously. These cookies may come from third parties such as web analytics services (for example Google Analytics).

Social media and advertising cookies

These may be placed through the site by the social media or advertising services we use.

This type of cookie can be used by such services to build a profile of visitors and to show you relevant advertising on other sites you visit.

They may come from third parties such as advertising services (for example AdSense, AdWords), social media platforms (for example Facebook, Twitter) and so on.

Because of the way they work, this site cannot access these third-party cookies, just as third parties cannot access the cookies held by this site. For example, when you share an article using the social network button on this site, that social network will record your activity.

What kind of information is stored and accessed through cookies?

Cookies keep information in a small text file that lets a website recognise a browser. The web server will recognise the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the experience of browsing the internet (for example: keeping a user signed in to their account; keeping products in the shopping cart; keeping products in the Favourites list).

Why are cookies important for the internet?

Cookies are central to the internet working efficiently, helping to produce a browsing experience that is friendly and suited to each user’s preferences and interests. Refusing or disabling cookies can make a site harder to use.

Refusing or disabling cookies does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising – only that it will no longer be able to take account of your preferences and interests as shown by your browsing behaviour.

Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require the user to sign in to an account):

• Content and services suited to the user’s preferences – news categories, weather, sport, maps, public and government services, entertainment sites and travel services.
• Offers suited to users’ interests – remembering passwords, language preferences (for example showing search results in Romanian).
• Remembering child protection filters for internet content (family mode options, safe search features).
• Limiting how often advertisements are shown – limiting the number of times an advertisement is displayed to a given user on a site.
• Delivering advertising that is more relevant to the user.
• Measurement, optimisation and analytics features – such as confirming a given level of traffic on a website, what kind of content is viewed, and how a user arrives at a website (for example through search engines, directly, or from other websites). Websites carry out these analyses of how they are used in order to improve the sites for the benefit of users.

Security and privacy matters

Cookies use plain text formats. They are not made up of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed and cannot run by themselves. Consequently they cannot duplicate or replicate themselves onto other networks in order to run or replicate again. Cookies can nevertheless be put to bad use. Because they store information about users’ preferences and browsing history, both on one particular site and across several others, cookies can be used as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this and routinely mark cookies for deletion during anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning and removal procedures.

Browsers generally have built-in privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, different validity periods, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a given site. Other security matters relating to cookies

Since protecting one’s identity is highly valuable and is the right of every internet user, it is worth knowing what problems cookies may create. Because information travels constantly in both directions between the browser and the website through them, the information a cookie contains can be intercepted if an attacker or unauthorised person interferes with the transmission. Although very rare, this can happen if the browser connects to the server over an unencrypted network (for example an unsecured Wi-Fi network).

Other cookie-based attacks involve cookies being configured wrongly on servers. If a website does not require the browser to use encrypted channels only, attackers can exploit this weakness to trick browsers into sending information over unsecured channels. The attackers then use that information to gain unauthorised access to certain sites. It is very important to take care in choosing the most suitable method of protecting your personal information.

Advice for safe and responsible browsing with cookies

Because of how flexible they are, and because most of the largest and most visited sites use them, cookies are all but unavoidable. Disabling cookies will not let the user reach the most widespread and most used sites, among them YouTube, Gmail, Facebook and Yahoo. Here is some advice that can help you browse without worry, but still with the benefit of cookies:

• Adjust your browser’s cookie settings to a level of cookie security you are comfortable with.
• If cookies do not bother you and you are the only person using the computer, you can set long expiry periods for storing your browsing history and personal sign-in details.
• If you share the computer with others, you might consider setting the browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close it. This is one way of reaching sites that place cookies while deleting all record of the visit when the browsing session ends.
• Install anti-spyware software and keep it up to date.

Many spyware detection and prevention applications also detect attacks on sites. They stop the browser reaching websites that might exploit browser vulnerabilities or download dangerous software. Make sure your browser is always up to date. Many cookie-based attacks work by exploiting the weaknesses of older browser versions.

Cookies are everywhere and cannot be avoided if you want to enjoy access to the most popular sites on the internet. With a clear understanding of how they work and of the benefits they bring, you can take the security measures you need in order to browse the internet with confidence.

How can I turn cookies off?

You can configure your browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted, or so that it accepts cookies only from a particular site.

All modern browsers let you configure your cookie storage preferences. These settings are usually found under “options” or in your browser’s “preferences” menu. To understand these settings, you can use the browser’s “help” option for more detail.

Useful links

If you would like to know more about cookies and what they are used for, we recommend the following links:

• All About Cookies
• http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro/