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Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 14.09.2021

This Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Terms and Conditions.

1. General information

The spotmedia.ro website uses its own and third-party cookies in order to provide visitors with a superior browsing experience and services tailored to their specific needs.

With the help of cookies, the website Administrator can continuously improve navigation, turning it into pleasant and useful visits, because it can:

  • customise various settings;
  • obtain valuable information about how the website is used by visitors, so as to provide them with increasingly better browsing experiences;
  • use multimedia or other types of applications from other websites within its own website.

To understand the spotmedia.ro audience with the aim of improving the website, we use statistical analysis services such as Google Analytics, AdOcean (Gemius) or Hotjar. These cookies cannot be used to identify natural persons, the data being collected anonymously or in a pseudo-anonymised form, strictly for statistical purposes.

The statistical reports provide us with information about:

  • the number of impressions, visits and unique clients;
  • the measurement of the time spent by the visitor on our web pages;
  • the most visited pages/sections;
  • the geographical distribution of visitors;
  • the distribution by age category or by gender;
  • the average duration of a visit/impression.

You can view the full list of cookie categories and vendors used on this site, and change your choices at any time, through the cookie settings.

You can find detailed information regarding the processing carried out by third parties by accessing the following links:

During your first visit to spotmedia.ro, a banner informs you about the presence of cookies and invites you to indicate your choice. You can return to this information and your option at any time by visiting this link or by clicking the configuration button located on any page of the site, in the top right of the screen.

A cookie is a small alphanumeric file that will be stored on the computer, mobile devices or other equipment of a user from which the Internet is accessed.

The cookie is installed through a request from the web server to a browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer) and is harmless (it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information on the user’s hard drive).

Only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that web server.

There are two broad categories of cookies:

  • Session cookies – these are stored temporarily in the web browser’s cookie folder so that it remembers them until the user leaves the respective website or closes the browser window.
  • Persistent cookies – these are stored on the hard drive of a computer or piece of equipment and generally depend on the predefined lifespan of the cookie. Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at that time – known as “third party cookies” – or cookies placed by third parties – which can be used anonymously to remember a user’s interests, so that advertising that is as relevant as possible is delivered to users.

3. What are “third party” cookies

Certain parts of content on certain sites can be placed on the accessed website by third parties through banners, boxes, links, analytics or tracking codes, embed codes, social media plug-ins – and all these tools may contain cookies. They are called “third party cookies” because they are not placed by the Administrator of the respective website, and it is the duty of the third-party providers to comply with the laws in force and with the privacy policies of the site owner. As they are not placed by the site administrator and depend entirely on third-party codes, the list of “third party” cookies, as detailed in chapter 6, is indicative, because the introduction of new cookies or the removal of existing ones is not transparent to the site administrator.

4. What are flash cookies (or LSO)?

“Flash cookie” refers to Local Shared Objects (LSO), which operate in the same way as cookies and store the preferred settings for operators such as Flash or Silverlight. Most of the time, LSOs cannot be managed by the browser, but a special tool is required:

The Global Storage Settings panel lets you choose how much hard disk space websites can use to store information, including for sites you have not yet visited (from zero to unlimited). If you want to change the settings for sites you have already visited, access the “Website Storage Settings Panel”. You can choose the level of information storage for a website, or you can delete the settings for a site, so that when you visit it again, the global settings you have chosen from the “Global Storage Settings panel” will be used.

Open the Silverlight application. Click on the Application Storage tab to see which of the websites uses storage applications.

5. What type of information is stored and accessed through cookies?

Cookies keep information in a small text file and allow a website to recognise a browser. The web server will recognise the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The durations after which the cookies on the spotmedia.ro site expire are declared in the list above.

The cookie stores important information that improves Internet browsing (the language settings in which one wishes to access a site, online banking security, etc.).

6. Why are cookies important for the Internet?

Cookies help the Internet to function efficiently and result in friendly, personalised browsing for each user.

Refusing or disabling cookies can make some websites difficult or even impossible to use.

Among other uses of cookies, we list:

  • content suited to the visitor’s preferences, by category (news, sport, services, offers, etc.);
  • settings adapted to the visitor (remembering passwords, language preferences);
  • retaining child-protection filters regarding content on the Internet.

7. Security and confidentiality

Cookies are NOT viruses! However, cookies can be used for negative purposes, as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products, however, mark cookies for deletion within the anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures.

In general, browsers have privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, a validity period and automatic deletion after the user has visited a website.

8. How can cookies be stopped?

It is possible to set the browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted, or the browser can be set so that it accepts cookies from a specific site.

All modern browsers offer the possibility to change cookie settings. Access the “help” option of the browser for more details.

To understand these cookie settings, you can consult the following URLs:

For the settings of cookies generated by third parties, you can also consult the site https://www.youronlinechoices.com/

If you want to find out more information about cookies and their use, you can access the official website of the European Union regarding cookies at https://commission.europa.eu/cookies-policy_en.