Cookie Policy

Definitions and Key Terms

To clarify things as much as possible in this Cookie Policy, each of these terms is strictly defined as:

  • Cookie: A small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, and remember information about you such as your language preferences or login information.
  • Company: When this policy mentions “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to PPC, which is responsible for your information under this Cookie Policy.
  • Device: Any device connected to the internet, such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit PPC and use the services.
  • Personal Data: Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
  • Service: Refers to the service provided by PPC as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.
  • Third-party service: Refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think might interest you.
  • Website: PPC’s site, which can be accessed via this URL: https://staging.ppc.org.ro/.
  • You: A person or entity that is registered with PPC to use the services.

Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how PPC and its affiliates (collectively “PPC,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, including, without limitation, https://staging.ppc.org.ro/ and any associated URLs, mobile or localized versions, and related domains/subdomains (“Websites”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control their use.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or another internet-connected device to identify your browser, provide analytics, and remember information about you such as your language preferences or login information. They are completely safe and cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and/or third-party cookies on our website for various purposes such as:

  • To facilitate the operation and functionality of our website;
  • To improve your experience on our website and make navigating around them quicker and easier;
  • To allow us to make a bespoke user experience for you and understand what is useful or of interest to you;
  • To analyze how our website is used and how best we can customize it;
  • To identify future prospects and personalize marketing and sales interactions with them;
  • To facilitate the tailoring of online advertising to your interests.

What Types of Cookies Does PPC Use?

Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you close your browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it expires or you delete your cookies. Expiration dates are set in the cookies themselves; some may expire after a few minutes while others may expire after multiple years. Cookies placed by the website you’re visiting are called “first-party cookies.”

Essential Cookies

We use essential cookies to make our website work. These cookies are strictly necessary to enable basic functionalities like security, network management, your cookie preferences, and accessibility. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services. You can disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the websites function.

Performance and Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionalities (like videos) may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously.

Analytics and Customization Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.

We use cookies provided by Google Analytics to collect limited data directly from end-user browsers to enable us to better understand your use of our website. Additional information on how Google collects and uses this data can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt-out of all Google-supported analytics on our websites by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our site or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. These cookies may also include certain code placed on the platform to help track conversions from ads, optimize ads based on collected data, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to qualified users who have already taken certain actions on the platform.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies that have been set on our website are not set by PPC as the first party. The Websites may be embedded with content from third parties to serve advertising. These third-party service providers may set their own cookies in your web browser. Third-party service providers control many of the performance and functionality, advertising, marketing, and analytics cookies described above. We do not control the use of these third-party cookies as cookies can only be accessed by the third party that originally set them.

How You Can Manage Cookies

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their “settings” preferences. However, limiting the ability of websites to set cookies may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.

Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information:

  • Google Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Safari (Desktop)
  • Safari (Mobile)
  • Browser Android
  • Opera
  • Opera Mobile

Blocking and Disabling Cookies and Similar Technologies

Wherever you are located, you can also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our website from functioning properly, and you may not be able to fully utilize all of the features and services. You should also be aware that you may also lose some saved information (e.g., saved login details, site preferences) if you block cookies in your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser; you will need to do this yourself from within your browser; for more information, visit the browser’s help menu.

Changes to Our Cookie Policy

We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to this Cookie Policy so that it accurately reflects our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) before we make changes to this Cookie Policy and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Cookie Policy. If you do not want to agree to this or any updated Cookie Policy, you can delete your account.

Your Consent

By using our website, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Cookie Policy and agree to its terms.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us: