COOKIE POLICY
According to the application legislation, as a data controller, we present you our Cookie Policy presenting details about subject such as: what are cookies, categories of cookies, our purpose of using cookies, retention, how to control cookies and others.
About cookies
Cookies are small text files, containing letters and numbers, that are installed on your device when accessing our website trackgps.ro/. They have a name and a content and can be read further by the application that installed them, for certain purposes.
The concerns around cookies are more from the privacy perspective, than information security, as they cannot be used to infect with viruses or other malicious code your device. They can refer to data that can be categorized as personal data, even if they are not leading directly to an individual direct identification.
Because of this concern, laws are in place (ePrivacy Directive) that allow controllers to place cookies only in specific conditions (depending on the cookie type, we may need your consent for allowing us to install them on your device).
Usually, the purpose of using cookies are to analyse the application usage (e.g.: traffic, behaviours of users in terms of the content accessed, interactions with the application pages, etc), to optimise the your application’s user experience (e.g.: saving users’ preferences) or to show personalized content, as advertising.
Categories of cookies
Cookies can be split in two categories, from the lifespan perspective:
Cookies can also be categorized, from the source to which they belong:
Cookies also can be categorized from the purpose perspective:
Our application uses Google Analytics, that process aggregate information related to the users, such as: no. of visitors, visited pages, their location (region), browser type, device OS, etc.
More information about Google Analytics privacy matters can be found here.
Our application does not use marketing (advertising) cookies.
Other similar technologies present on our application
Name | Function | Type | Expiry |
defaultLocale | Stores the user’s preferences for location. | Cookie preferences and statistics | .. |
cookieconsent_status | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | Cookie preferences and statistics | .. |
timezone | Stores user’s setting for time zone. | Cookie preferences and statistics | .. |
windowsMode | Stores user’s setting for windows mode. | Cookie preferences and statistics | .. |
Cookies Management
By browser settings
Users can manage cookies by configuring browsers (accept or not cookies) or to set other preferences related to them. Here are links to browser for settings: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari.
Guidelines
More details about cookies can be found here:
Last update: February 2020