Cookies policy

This Cookie Policy applies to all users of the www.palmiye.ro website. The information presented below is intended to inform the users of this website about the placement, use, and management of cookies by Palmiye Desert in the context of users browsing this website.

What are cookies?

In order to offer you the smoothest navigation on the Palmiye Desert website, we use a facility of the Internet browser called `cookie’. We use the term “cookies” to refer to cookie modules and similar technologies through which information can be collected automatically.

A cookie (a term also known as “browser cookie” or “HTTP cookie”) is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which need your permission to be saved on your hard disk. Once you accept, the file is stored locally on the user’s computer, mobile terminal, or other equipment through which the Internet is accessed and helps analyze web traffic or remember the preferences of a frequently visited site. Cookies help web applications to provide personalized responses. The web application can modify its parameters to meet your needs by collecting and memorizing information related to your preferences.

A cookie consists of two parts: the name of the cookie and the content or value of the cookie.
From a technical point of view, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when the user returns to the web page associated with the respective web server.

For what purposes are cookies used through this website?

Cookies are used to provide users of this website with a better browsing experience and services adapted to the needs and interests of each individual user, namely for:

• Measuring and improving the performance of our website. Cookies help us to know which pages are the least popular and to see how visitors move around the site. All the information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you visited our site and we will not be able to monitor its performance;
• Identification of any errors that occur during the visit/use by users;
• Data security to authenticate users and to protect user data against unauthorized access;
• Providing anonymous statistics on how this website is used by Palmiye Desert, as the owner of this website;
• Anticipation of possible goods, promotions, or offers that will be made available to users through this website in the future, depending on the pages and products accessed.

Based on the feedback sent through cookies regarding the way this website is used, Palmiye Desert can take measures to make this website more efficient and accessible for users. Thus, the use of cookies allows the memorization of certain settings/preferences established by the users of this website, such as:

• Browsing this site and accessing its secure sections. In their absence, certain options you are trying to access will not be available;
• Retaining font changes, text size or other ways in which you want to customize the website pages;
• Accessing the products added to the favorites list;
• Retaining your options (such as the username to facilitate access to the user account) and offering additional, personalized options based on this information;
• Posting reviews and evaluating products on the site or viewing comments.
• The collected information can be anonymized and these cookies do not track how you navigate on other sites.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website because they give us the opportunity to monitor what you consider useful or useless on a web page. A cookie does not give us access in any case to your computer or your information, but only to the information you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or refuse cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually, you can modify the browser settings to refuse them. Refusal to store cookies may prevent you from experiencing all the features of a web page.

What is the lifetime of cookies?

The lifetime of cookies can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. There are the following categories of cookies that also determine their lifespan:

• Session cookies – A “session cookie” is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes their browser.
• Persistent or fixed cookies – A “persistent” or “fixed” cookie is a cookie that remains stored on the user’s terminal until it reaches a certain expiration date (which can be in a few minutes, days, or several years in the future) or until when it is blocked by the user at any time through the browser settings.

What cookies are used on this website?

By using/visiting our website, the following cookies can be placed

• Website performance cookies;
• User analysis cookies;
• Cookies for geotargeting;
• Registration cookies;
• Cookies for advertising;
• Advertising provider cookies;

1. Performance cookies

Through this type of cookie, the preferences of the user of this website are stored, so that setting the preferences again in the case of subsequent visits to the website is no longer necessary.

2. Cookies for user analysis

These cookies inform us if a certain user of the website has visited/used this website before. These cookies are used only for statistical purposes.

3. Cookies for geotargeting

These cookies are used by software that establishes the country of origin or region of the user of the internet page.

4. Cookies for registration

When you register on this site, cookies are generated that remember this step. The servers use these cookies to show us the account with which you are registered. Also, the use of these cookies allows us to associate any comment posted on the website with the username of the account used. If the “keep me registered” option was not selected, these cookies will be automatically deleted at the end of the browsing session.

5. Cookies for advertising

These cookies allow to find out the viewing by a user of an online advertisement, its type and the time elapsed since the viewing of the respective advertising message. As such, such cookies are used to target online advertising. These cookies are anonymous, storing information about the viewed content, not about the users.

Customize browser settings regarding cookies

If the use of cookies is not bothersome and the computer or technical equipment used to browse this website is used only by you, long expiration periods can be set for storing the browsing history.
If the computer or technical equipment used to browse this website is used by several people, the setting to delete individual browsing data every time the browser is closed can be considered.

How can cookies be turned off?

Deactivating and refusing to receive cookies can make this website difficult to visit, entailing limitations of its possibilities of use.
Users can configure their browser to reject cookies or to accept cookies from a specific internet page.
All modern browsers offer the possibility to change cookie settings. These settings can be accessed, as a rule, in the “options” section or in the “preferences” menu of your browser.
However, refusing or deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising – but only that it will not be adapted to your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior.

To understand these settings and to customize the settings, the following links may be useful:

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari

GOOGLE

This site uses Google Analytics, a web usage analysis tool provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) which helps us understand how users interact with the website www.palmiye.ro. The service uses a set of “cookies” – text files created on your computer, which allow the collection of information and the analysis of how users use the respective site. The information generated by these files refers to how you use the site (including your IP address) and is transmitted to Google, which stores it on servers in the EU. Google will use this information to evaluate the way you use the site, to produce reports and statistical data on the activity on the site, as well as to offer other services related to the activity on the site and the use of the Internet. Additionally, Google Analytics can be used, together with some of the advertising cookies, to display more relevant ads (such as Google Search) and on the web, as well as to measure the interaction with the displayed ads.

Learn more about Analytics cookies and privacy information.

Also, Google can transfer this information to third parties, in the event that the law requires this or in the event that the respective third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other information it holds. You can block the use of “cookies” files by selecting certain settings for your browser. If you choose this option, however, you may not be able to use all the functions of this site. By using this site, you automatically give your consent for Google to process your data, in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above. You can prevent Google from detecting a cookie file with the activity generated by you on this site (including the IP address) as well as the processing of this information, by downloading and installing the following plugin http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl = en

FACEBOOK

Our web pages also use tracking and performance modules for the traffic coming from social channels. This is the Facebook pixel analysis tool provided by Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA). The information collected with the help of this tool helps us to better understand the actions you undertake on the www.palmiye.ro website in order to optimize interactions with you. The purpose and volume of data recording and the further processing and use of data through Facebook, as well as your rights regarding this and the installation possibilities for the purpose of protecting your private sphere, can be found in Facebook’s data protection guidelines: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php ; http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want Facebook to share the accumulated data about our appearance on the Web with your Facebook account, you must exit Facebook before viewing our Web page. You can completely prevent the loading of Facebook Plugins and Add-Ons for your Browser, e.g. with “Facebook Blocker” (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/).