Cookie Policy

Introduction

The website https://www.ontour.ro uses cookies. The information presented below aims to inform the user about the placement, use, and management of the cookies that the website https://www.ontour.ro uses. If you need additional information that is not included below, please contact us at the email address office@ontour.ro.

We invite you to carefully review the following details:

This website may use both proprietary cookies and third-party cookies, in order to provide visitors with an improved browsing experience and personalized services according to everyone's needs and interests. Cookies play a crucial role in facilitating access and providing various services that users enjoy on the internet, such as:

• Personalization of certain settings, such as the language in which the site is displayed, keeping contact details for various requests, maintaining options for various services, saving some preferences for future use.
• Provides website owners with valuable information about how users interact with their sites, thus facilitating the improvement of their efficiency and accessibility.
• Allows the inclusion of multimedia or other types of applications from other websites into a specific site, to create a more pleasant and useful browsing experience.
• Improve the effectiveness of online advertising.

What is a cookie?

An "Internet Cookie" (also known as a "browser cookie" or "HTTP cookie" or simply "cookie") is a small file, composed of letters and numbers, which is stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other devices of a user accessing the Internet. The cookie is installed through a request issued by a web server to a browser (for example, Internet Explorer, Chrome) and is completely "passive" (it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and does not have access to the information on the user's hard drive).

There are two main categories of cookies:

• Session cookies – these are temporarily stored in the web browser's cookie folder to be remembered until the user leaves that website or closes the browser window.
• Persistent cookies – these are stored on a computer or equipment's hard drive (and, in general, depend on the preset lifespan for the cookie). Persistent cookies also include those placed by a different website than the one the user is visiting at that moment – known as "third-party cookies".

What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information that establishes a connection between a web browser (the user) and a specific web server (the website). If a browser accesses that web server again, it can read the already stored information and react accordingly. Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to offer comfortable services to users.

What is the lifespan of a cookie?

Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifespan of a cookie can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookies) and are not retained after the user leaves the website, while others are retained and reused every time the user returns to that website (permanent cookies). However, users can delete cookies at any time through their browser settings.

What do third-party cookies mean?

There are content sections on various sites that are provided by third-party providers (for example, a news box, a video or an advertisement). These third parties have the ability to place cookies through the site, being called "third-party cookies," because they are not placed by the site owner. Third-party providers are obligated to comply with applicable laws and the site owner's privacy policies.

How are cookies used on this site?

A visit to this site may generate cookies for purposes such as:

1. Site performance cookies: These cookies remember user preferences on the site, eliminating the need to set them at each visit.
2. Visitor analysis cookies: With each visit, third-party analysis software generates a cookie to monitor whether the user has accessed the site before.
3. Geotargeting cookies: These cookies are used by software to determine the user's country of origin. They are completely anonymous and only serve to personalize the content.
4. Registration cookies: When registering on the site, a cookie is generated that indicates whether the user is registered or not.
5. Advertising cookies: These cookies determine whether a user has viewed an online ad, its type, and how much time has passed since viewing the advertising message.
6. Advertising provider cookies: A significant portion of the advertising on the site belongs to third parties. They may use their own cookies to analyze how many people have been exposed to an ad.
7. Other third-party cookies: On certain pages, third parties may set their own cookies to track the success of an application or to customize an application.

What type of information is stored and accessed via cookies?

Cookies store information in a small text file, allowing the site to recognize a browser. They keep important information that improves the browsing experience, such as language settings, authenticating into a webmail account, or online banking security.

Why are cookies important for the internet?

Cookies are the central element of the efficient functioning of the internet, contributing to the generation of a friendly browsing experience adapted to the preferences and interests of each user. Refusing or deactivating cookies may make some sites difficult to use, but it does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising, only that it will no longer be personalized according to your preferences and interests.

Security and Privacy Aspects

Cookies are NOT viruses! They use plain text formats and are not made of code snippets, so they cannot be executed or self-run. Therefore, they cannot duplicate or replicate on other networks to run or replicate again. Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses.

However, cookies can be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about users' preferences and browsing history, both on a specific site and on several others, cookies can be used as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this fact and constantly flag cookies to be deleted as part of anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures.

Tips for safe and responsible browsing

Due to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, they are almost inevitable. Here are some tips that can ensure you browse without worries:

1. Customize browser settings: Reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you.
2. Long expiration terms: If you don't mind cookies and you are the only person using the computer, set long expiration terms for storing browsing history and personal access data.
3. Automatic deletion: If you share access to the computer, you might consider setting your browser to delete individual browsing data when the browser is closed.
4. Install and update antispyware applications: Many anti-spyware detection and prevention applications include detection of attacks on sites.
5. Make sure your browser is always up to date: Many cookie-based attacks are carried out by exploiting the weaknesses of old browser versions.

Cookies used on this site

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website and performs certain actions.

We use Facebook Pixel to deliver personalized advertising.

How you can control cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings, available through "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", then "Advanced".
• In Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from websites".
• In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", then selecting "Block sites from sending any data" under "Cookies".

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.