Below are presented the conditions under which the rs.ro team allows the use of this site. If you do not fully agree with them, please stop using the services provided through the website www.fokusdigitalservices.com.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICE
www.fokusdigitalservices.com administers online sales services for users. Other services that will be implemented, in time, within www.fokusdigitalservices.com are subject to the same conditions, unless they have clearly formulated terms of use. To publish / modify / view the ad or to view the offers available within www.fokusdigitalservices.com, you must obtain access to the World Wide Web (Internet), directly or with the help of other devices through which Internet services can be accessed, paying any the fee associated with this access. In addition, you must have available all the necessary equipment to make this connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and a modem or other access equipment.
1. Definitions
In the sense of these conditions, the following terms will be defined as follows:
– User – any person interested in providing the service;
– Service – ensuring user access to data and information transmitted by the rs.ro team via the Internet, with the help of this site;
– Associated companies – legal or natural persons, partners of the rs.ro team.
2. Obligations of the User
2.1 The user agrees to use the service only for legal purposes. The user undertakes to:
a) do not modify, distribute, transmit, display, publish, reproduce, grant licenses, create derivative products, transfer or sell any kind of information or service obtained from or through this website;
b) do not use and do not allow any third party (nor will you authorize) to use the rs.ro service or website to transmit or receive materials that contravene the legal provisions in force or have obscene, abusive, vulgar content , defamatory, offensive, threatening, xenophobic, violates any other intellectual property right or affects the privacy of another person, incites racial or ethnic hatred or is offensive in any other way;
c) does not carry out (nor will it allow) cracking or hacking activity (cracking or hacking means unauthorized access to the user authentication service or other security services of any network, server, web server or user account), or attacks of the “Denial of Service” type (“Denial of Service” type attacks – “Denial of Service” means interference with the Service, regarding any user, network or server, thus blocking access to/from the Service). Users who violate the security of systems or networks will be prosecuted in court, civilly and criminally.
2.2 The User agrees to exonerate rs.ro from liability and not to take rs.ro to court with regard to any claim raised by a third party, as a result of the use of the rs.ro team service or website and the Internet by the User, as well as with regard to any loss (direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise), costs, actions, lawsuits, claims, expenses (including court costs) or other liabilities, suffered as a result of the violation or ignorance by User of these conditions.
2.3 The payment of all additional expenses related to the use of the service, the request for services from associated companies, including those that the service provider or the Internet may request, is the responsibility of the User.
3. Content
3.1 You understand that all information, data, text, software, photos, graphics, messages or other materials (hereinafter referred to as “CONTENT”), regardless of whether they were displayed publicly or transmitted individually, privately, are the sole responsibility of the person who was the source of such materials. This means that you, and not the rs.ro team, are fully responsible for all the materials you upload, make publicly available on the account made available by the rs.ro team. the rs.ro team does not control, only monitors the transmitted content and thus does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity and quality of this content. Understand that by using the services offered by the rs.ro team, you may be exposed to content that may be offensive or indecent.
3.2 You agree under the penalty of applying the legal provisions in force in Romania not to use the services made available by the rs.ro team through or to:
– falsify identification data, or otherwise manipulate them, with the aim of disguising or hiding the origin of any content transmitted through the rs.ro team or developing hidden pages or images (such as those that do not have any active links on a page inside the respective member’s website);
– upload, post, broadcast or otherwise transmit any content for which you do not have the legal right to transmit or broadcast under any conditions, under any legal system, Romanian or foreign, contractual or trust relationships (such as confidential information, those under proprietary right, found out or disclosed as part of the service relationship or under the incidence of confidentiality agreements);
– upload, post, broadcast or otherwise transmit any type of advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail”, “spam”, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation, with the exception of the portions of the service that are formed for this purpose;
– upload, post, broadcast or otherwise transmit any material that contains viruses or any other type of code, files or programs that are designed to destroy, interrupt or limit the operation of any other software, hardware components or telecommunications equipment;
4. Content of personal offers on www.fokusdigitalservices.com
4.1 the rs.ro team does not own property rights over the content of the pages posted in the space made available to users. By sending content for inclusion in the personal offers on the website www.fokusdigitalservices.com, you give permission to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the content of the personal message, without payment and by any means it deems appropriate, only for the purpose of display, distribution and promoting your personal products. This permission exists only as long as your offers / personal pages are hosted on the site owned by the rs.ro team and will disappear when your account is deleted. You are aware that the rs.ro team does not investigate the content of the accounts when they are opened, but reserves the right (not the obligation) for itself and for any person designated by the rs.ro team, to refuse or delete, as it sees fit accordingly, any content available through it. the rs.ro team and any other person designated by the rs.ro team have the right to delete (remove) any content that violates the Terms and Conditions or is otherwise incompatible with the purpose of this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including those related to the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of such content.
5. Registration obligations
5.1 In order to use the services offered, you are obliged to: 1) provide true, accurate and complete data about yourself as required by the registration form and 2) maintain or update, when the situation requires it, the registration data to be true , accurate and complete. If you provide information that is not true, inaccurate or incomplete, the rs.ro team has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse all current or future attempts to use the service. Also, the rs.ro team is exonerated from any liability for any kind of damage caused to the user as a result of the latter providing inaccurate, incomplete, xxx data.
6. Indemnities
6.1 You agree to indemnify and protect the rs.ro team from any claims or demands, including court costs or attorneys’ fees, made by a third person or organization due to or arising from the content of personal offers or due to the use of the rs.ro team’s services , connecting to www.fokusdigitalservices.com, violating the Terms and Conditions or violating any rights of that third party.
7. General practices regarding use and storage
7.1 You are aware that the rs.ro team can establish a set of general practices and limitations regarding the use of services. Currently, each open account benefits from an unlimited number of ads that can be posted, the maximum size of a file included in an ad is 100 KB, files larger than 100 KB cannot be transferred to the server, and the type of supported files they are only from the images category: exclusively the extensions .jpg, .jpeg and .gif.
7.2 Accessing the account is considered the successful login using the account name and password; for the update of the personal announcement, only the specific forms available on the rs.ro team will be used through the HTTP protocol through port 80 (HTTP:8080).
8. Termination of collaboration
8.1 You agree that the rs.ro team, if it deems appropriate, can block your password, access to your account, the use of the services or the use of any other services of the rs.ro team that you benefit from, or remove and delete any content within the services, for any reason, including but not limited to, lack of use or if the rs.ro team believes that you have violated or have not acted in accordance with the letter or spirit of the Terms and Conditions. the rs.ro team can also, whenever it wants and without giving an account, interrupt the provision of the services, or a part of them, with or without any prior notification. You agree that any termination of your access to the services offered, according to any rule in the Terms and Conditions, can be carried out without prior warning, and you acknowledge and agree that the rs.ro team can immediately deactivate or delete your account and all the information related to it and the files from the personal account and/or to prohibit any subsequent access to such files. Furthermore, you agree that the rs.ro team will not be liable to you or any third party in any way, for the ban and/or deletion of your account and access to the services made available through the portal.
9. Advertising
We use Google AdSense, Google Conversion Tracking and Google Remarketing services on our web pages.
Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”) intended to measure the success of our Google-enabled advertising campaigns (AdWords). In this context, Google sets a cookie module on your computer when you access a Google ad and arrive at our page. These cookie modules lose their validity after 30 days and do not allow personal identification.
With the help of Google Conversion Tracking, we and Google can identify the fact that someone clicked on our advertisement and was thus redirected to our page. However, we cannot see what other web pages you have opened. The data collected with Google Conversion Tracking is used exclusively to compile statistics on the success and use of our AdWords campaigns. We do not collect or receive any information on the basis of which the user could be identified.
We also use Google AdSense, an advertising service of Google, on our pages to activate advertisements (text ads, banners). Thus, your browser sometimes stores a cookie module sent by Google or third parties. The information stored in the cookie module can be recorded, collected and evaluated by Google or third parties. In addition, Google Adsense uses for the collection of information and small transparent graphic images, the so-called web beacons, through the use of which simple actions, visitor traffic on the Internet page can be recorded, collected and evaluated. The information obtained with the help of the cookie module and/or images regarding the use of this page is transferred to a Google server and stored there. Google uses the information obtained in this way to evaluate your usage behavior in relation to AdSense ads. Google may transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if this data is processed by third parties for Google. Your IP address is not associated with other data stored by Google.
We also use remarketing technologies offered by Google on our pages. Through these technologies, users who have already visited our web pages can be approached again through targeted advertising on the other pages of Google’s partner network. Google’s remarketing technologies also use cookies.
If you do not want to receive interest-based advertising, you can disable the use of cookies by Google for these purposes by accessing this page and making the settings that suit you. for the purpose of personalizing ads on the Internet.
If you do not want to participate in Google AdSense, Google Conversion Tracking or Google Remarketing, you can also refuse the necessary setting of a cookie module in this regard – by setting the Internet browsing program that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. You can also disable cookies for Google advertising services by setting your internet browser so that the cookies of the “googleadservices.com” domain are blocked. Additional information and information regarding the deactivation of Google advertising services for mobile terminals can be found here.
In addition, on our pages we also use the Facebook Conversion Pixel and Facebook Remarketing services. With the help of Facebook Conversion Pixels, we and Google can identify the fact that someone clicked on our Facebook ad and was thus redirected to our page. However, we cannot see what other web pages he accessed. The data collected with the Facebook Conversion Pixel is used exclusively to compile statistics on the success and use of our advertising campaigns on Facebook. We do not collect or receive any information on the basis of which the user could be identified. Through Facebook Remarketing technology, users who have visited our web pages can be approached again through targeted advertising on Facebook. However, we do not collect or receive any information about Facebook users to whom targeted advertising is addressed. Even in this case, we do not have the possibility to identify individual users. For detailed information on the purposes and volume of collection and processing of personal data by Facebook and for protection settings for your private sphere on Facebook, consult Facebook’s privacy policy by accessing this page.
10. Limitation of liability
10.1 The user expressly declares that he understands and agrees with the following statements:
I. The use of the service is done at your own risk. The Service is provided on an “as is” or “as available” basis. the rs.ro team shall not be responsible for any loss suffered by the User, direct or indirect, resulting from or related in any way to the use or performance of the service, this website or related websites.
II. the rs.ro team does not offer any guarantee that:
1. the service will fulfill all your requirements;
2. the service will be provided uninterrupted, on time, securely or without errors;
3. any program error will be corrected;
4. the service will be compatible with the user’s platform or software applications;
5. the service or the server that makes it available to users is free of viruses or other components that could harm users and cannot be responsible for any action you take based on that information or the service.
III. Any material obtained by using the service made available by the rs.ro team is thus at the discretion of the User and can only be used at the User’s own risk. The user will be the only person responsible for any damage caused to the computer from which the service is accessed or for other data losses that may result from downloading any materials.
IV. No advice or other oral or written information, obtained by the User from the rs.ro team through the service, will imply a guarantee other than that expressly stipulated in the Terms of Use.
10.2 The responsibility of the rs.ro team (if this is established by a court of law or an arbitral tribunal) resulting in any way from or in connection with the provision of the service according to these conditions, is limited in the case of each event or in the case of any series of several events for 100 Euros.
11. The policy of the rs.ro information protection team
11.1 According to the information protection policy of the rs.ro team, we can offer other parties (called third parties) certain general information contained in the registration form or other data of the same kind. We guarantee that this information will not include personal identification information, except in cases where this is explicitly accepted by you or if this is necessary to comply with the law, judicial procedures, in order to be able to apply these terms of use.
12. Security
12.1 The user acknowledges that the rs.ro team cannot control and does not offer any other guarantees regarding the security of information passing through its communications network and through the Internet or through the Service other than those required by Romanian law in force.
12.2 The User acknowledges that the services are available via the Internet and although the rs.ro team will do everything in its power to maintain the security of the information, it cannot guarantee that the information the User receives or sends using the service will be permanently in safety.
13. Connection to other Networks
13.1 The Service can be used by the User to find out different information displayed by the rs.ro team on the Internet, to connect with other Networks or websites in the world, and the User undertakes to comply with the policies of use valid in those networks or sites. The user accepts the fact that the rs.ro team does not control these sites, is not responsible and assumes no obligation regarding other sites, any link from other sites or their content.
13.2 Any inclusion of links to other sites or networks is made only to help the User in the sense of use and does not imply the support or encouragement by the rs.ro team of the material available on or through those sites or networks nor any association with their operators. The user accesses those sites and uses their products and services exclusively at his own risk.
13.3 the rs.ro team does not guarantee that the services or materials provided by third-party sources or associated companies are acceptable and available in any area of Romania. If the User accesses other content or services from the websites of third parties or associated companies, the rs.ro team is not responsible for compliance by the User or third parties or associated companies with local laws or other normative acts in force in those countries
14. Intellectual property
14.1 The user expressly declares that he is aware of the fact that all stylized representations, all associated logos and symbols and their combinations with any word or graphic symbol, used on this site, are registered trademarks of the rs.ro team or of associated companies.
14.2 This website and its content, as well as all the information contained in this website, are the property of the rs.ro team. rs.ro team reserves the right to modify the content and/or structure of the site at any time and without any prior information
14.3 Users have the following rights:
to explore the content;
to reproduce, translate or use the published information only with the consent of the rs.ro team and with the indication of the source;
the insertion of some links to this website in your own pages (when the links are contained in commercial or advertising websites, a new window will be opened to view the portal www.fokusdigitalservices.com).
14.4 You are aware and agree that the rs.ro team and any software used in connection with its services contain confidential and proprietary information and are protected by the laws on intellectual and industrial property rights and other applicable laws in force in Romania. Furthermore, you are aware and agree that any content from advertising banners or promotions or other information available through the rs.ro team is protected by copyright, trademarks or service marks, patents or other property rights or applicable laws in force in Romania. You agree not to modify, rent, assign, lend, sell, distribute or create derivative materials based on the services or programs used within the portal, unless otherwise expressly stipulated by the rs.ro team regarding to the services offered by the rs.ro team.
14.5 The copyright on its entire content belongs entirely to the rs.ro team. The entire content of the rs.ro team website – images, texts, graphics, symbols, web graphic elements, scripts, programs and other data – is the property of the rs.ro team and is protected by the Copyright Protection Law and other laws regarding intellectual and industrial property. The use without the consent of the rs.ro team of any of the elements listed above is punishable according to the laws in force.
14.6 The rs.ro team respects the intellectual property rights of others and we ask the users of our services to do the same.
15. Personal data
According to Regulation (EU) 679/2016, known as the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data, regarding the processing of personal data and the protection of private life in the electronic communications sector, Rentrop&Straton S.R.L. through the company mandated by us, Fokus Digital Services SRL, a company whose sole associate is Rentrop&Straton, and within which the same high-level security and protection standards are applied, is obliged to process the personal data provided by you, only in compliance security measures and for the communicated purpose.
The personal data you send us when filling out the contact forms or by e-mail are treated with strict confidentiality. You are not obliged to send us personal data, but the data voluntarily sent by you will be used exclusively for the purpose of processing your request. The data may be the subject of an intra-group transmission (the R&S Group is made up of the companies: Rentrop&Straton S.R.L., Fokus Digital Services S.R.L – a company 100% owned by R&S, Tandem Consultanta si Management S.R.L – a company 100% owned by an R&S associate) exclusively for internal purposes. In exceptional cases, the data are processed with our consent by collaborating partners (authorized persons). In such a case, we make sure that our carefully chosen partner meets the legal requirements regarding data protection.
Fokus Digital Services S.R.L., the company mandated by us, is a personal data operator for the purpose of customer relations and complaint resolution.
According to Regulation (EU) 679/2016, known as the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data, you benefit from the right of access, intervention on the data and the right not to be subject to an individual decision. At the same time, you have the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you and to request the deletion of the data. Also, your right to go to justice is recognized.
According to European Regulation 679/2016 on the protection of personal data, as a natural person you have the following rights:
– information and access to personal data
You have the right to obtain from us a confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and, if so, access to said data.
– restriction of personal data processing
There may be situations in which you want to restrict the processing of certain data only for a certain period of time. For example, you do not want to receive commercial messages from certain categories of interest from us for a month. You can, at any time, send a request by e-mail in this regard or make changes to the user account. When you want to cancel the processing restriction, you can do it through one of the methods used for restriction.
– opposition to the processing of personal data
It is possible that at some point you would like us to stop processing certain personal data without deleting them from our database. You can exercise this right at any time.
– downloading personal data in an accessible format
You have the possibility to request personal data in a structured format, currently used and which can be read automatically. You can make this request by e-mail or from your account.
– rectification of personal data
Whenever you change your personal data (for example you change your e-mail address) you can update your information in our database by accessing your online account or through a request sent by e-mail.
– the automated individual decision-making process, including the creation of profiles
Our website uses cookies for the following purposes: creating an anonymized user profile, recognizing the internet browsing program, to know from where you arrived at our website, etc. You can find more information about this topic in the “Cookie Module” section above.
If you do not agree with cookies, you can disable them in the settings of the Internet browsing program or you can leave our page. Attention, it is possible that some pages, such as the order page, may not work correctly due to the deactivation of cookies.
– deletion of personal data
If, for various reasons, you want to delete your personal data from our database, you can make a request in this regard by e-mail or from your user account.
Attention, if your personal data is processed to comply with a legal obligation, the request to delete this data may be refused, in which case only those data that we can no longer process without your consent will be deleted.
To exercise any of the above rights, you can send a request by e-mail to the address dpo@rs.ro or you can apply them from your user account.
To be sure that you are the owner of the data, please send the requests using the e-mail for which you are making the request.
16. Newsletter request
The content of our newsletter includes information about goods, campaigns and contests of Rentrop&Straton SRL, as well as information about offers.
If you subscribe to our free newsletter, it is mandatory to provide us with the following information: e-mail address and optional name/surname to personalize communications with you.
In the subscription process, the page from which you initiated the newsletter request process is also stored (e.g. from the contact form, from a contest form or directly through the newsletter subscription page). This serves exclusively to optimize our website.
If during the login you voluntarily provide additional data related to your person (name, surname), we use this data only to insert a personal appellation in the newsletter. You can modify or delete these data individually at any time. You can find the link in this sense at the bottom of the newsletter. Subsequently, the additional data provided voluntarily is modified according to your requirements or deleted immediately.
After completing and sending the registration form, you will receive an e-mail from us with a confirmation link. If you click within 14 days on the link contained in it, you become a subscriber. By confirming the subscription, you confirm that you agree with the processing of your e-mail address, the subscription page and your optional data for the purposes mentioned here.
You can revoke your consent to request our newsletter at any time for the future by clicking on the corresponding unsubscribe link in a newsletter or by sending an e-mail to dpo@rs.ro. Your email address will be immediately deleted from the subscriber database.
17. What data do we process when you register an order?
When you place an order on our website, the data we need to process the order are your first and last name, email address, phone number and address, if the purchased product requires delivery.
After registering the order, our colleagues from the “Online order confirmation” department will call you to confirm the order, then the proforma or fiscal invoice will be issued. If an invoice is issued, your personal data will be archived and kept according to the accounting laws applied in Romania, for 10 years.
Finally, in order to ship the order, your personal data will be sent to one of the courier companies with which we have signed contracts that respect the terms of Regulation 679/2016.
These companies can be: Fan Courier, Cargus, GLS, Posta Romana or, if necessary, another company.
Depending on the product you buy from our online store, it is possible to be contacted by one of the colleagues from the “Quality” department in order to improve the services.
18. User account in the Rentrop&Straton network
To use the “Shopping list” functionality – that is, to be able to place products in the virtual shopping list – it is necessary to first create a user account. For this, the following data are collected and used as mandatory data: name and surname, e-mail address and a password chosen by you. The e-mail address serves exclusively as a username for use and logging on the website www.fokusdigitalservices.com. Your name is used only to be able to address you by name. Alternatively, you can create an account using the so-called logins through social networks (social logins) (eg through Facebook, Twitter or Google+). In these data protection principles, you can find additional information regarding the data thus transferred in the following subsection. Your data are not passed on to third parties.
If you want to permanently delete the user account, you must send an e-mail to dpo@rs.ro to request this. Your account will be deleted or anonymized immediately. Afterwards, you can create a new account at any time. If you do not use your user account for a period of three years, it is automatically deleted if you do not object to this.
19. Contests with prizes
You have the opportunity to participate in contests with prizes on our website. The personal data transmitted during the participation in contests with prizes are used exclusively for the running of the contest (validation of the winners, awarding and transmission of the prize, announcing the winners). After the end of the competition and the notification of the winners, the data of the participants are deleted from the database. Following certain contests, you can opt for your data to enter the Rentrop&Straton database, to keep you up to date with our activities and promotions.
Please read carefully the contest forms, as well as the Regulations of the contests you participate in, available both on our website and in stores.
20. Authentication through social networks (social login)
On certain websites we offer you the possibility to register and log in using your Facebook, Google + or Twitter account (Social Login). Additional registration for the user account on this web page is not necessary in this case. In addition, your social network user account (Google+, Facebook or Twitter) is linked to the user account, so that you can authenticate with the social network user account for the user account and log in from there. The advantage is that you don’t have to remember another password for the user account.
To log in, you are redirected to the page of your social network (Twitter, Facebook or Google+), where you can log in with your user data. Thus, your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ profile is linked to your user account. After connecting, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., respectively Google Inc. automatically send us the following information:
• The numerical ID for the social network;
• name and surname;
• sex;
• username on Twitter, Google +, respectively Facebook;
• The account has been verified (verified), e.g. “Yes”;
• Link to your public profile in the selected social network service.
In addition, the operator of the social network service receives information about the connection of the respective account to our page. We store and use this transmitted data, in order to be able to identify you as an authorized user and to be able to address you in the correct manner.
21. Generalities
21.1 Changes to the conditions – the rs.ro team can change these conditions at certain time intervals without notifying the User. Such changes will be brought to the attention of the User by posting them on the website at team rs.ro/reguli.asp. The changes made in this way are considered to be accepted by the User if he continues to use the service after they are displayed on the website.
21.2 Force Majeure – the rs.ro team does not assume responsibility for the impossibility of complying with the obligations stipulated in these conditions, as a result of any cause beyond its control, including but not limited to fortuitous events, unfavorable weather conditions, the action or the inaction of the government, other networks or other competent authorities for which the rs.ro team is not responsible.
21.3 Jurisdiction – This website (excluding third party websites to which there are links) is controlled by the rs.ro team. By accessing this website, the User accepts that this contract and any dispute related to it are governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Romania, and the User agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts on the territory of Romania. This website can be accessed from anywhere in Romania and abroad. the rs.ro team does not offer any assurance that the content of this site obeys the laws (including those of intellectual property) of other countries outside of Romania. If the User accesses this site from outside Romania, he does so at his own risk and is solely responsible for complying with the laws of the territory in which he is located.
21.4 Confidentiality – the rs.ro team does not guarantee that the User’s access to the services will be confidential. the rs.ro team is not responsible for any damage caused to the User or another person as a result of confidentiality regarding the User’s use of this site. Any information that the User discloses on the site may not be secure during its transmission over the Internet. Third parties have the possibility to intercept the transmissions that the User makes when using this website. Some services that the User accesses on this site allow the rs.ro team to receive personal information.
22. Violations
22.1 Please notify us of any violation of these Terms and Conditions at the following address: redactia@rs.ro.
For any questions or suggestions, please write an email to redactia@rs.ro.
23. Cookies Policy
To facilitate user navigation on our internet pages, we use cookie modules (small files that a server sends to your computer), with which the connection to our pages is managed.
At the end of the internet session, the session cookies are automatically deleted.
In addition, the company mandated by us, Fokus Digital Services SRL, whose sole associate is Rentrop&Straton, and within which the same high-level security and protection standards are applied, collects and stores data to create an anonymized profile of the users of these pages . In this sense, Fokus Digital Services SRL stores a permanent cookie module in the browser program, which allows recognition of the Internet browser. The collected data are not used for the personal identification of the visitor of these internet pages and are not corroborated with the personal data regarding the anonymized profile. This way of collecting and storing data with the help of the permanent cookie module by Fokus Digital Services SRL can be deactivated at any time with effect in the future. You can set your browser so that it informs you about the placement of cookies. The use of cookies thus becomes transparent for you. However, we warn you that the functionality of certain pages may be affected in case of general non-acceptance of cookie modules.
Our internet pages also use an internal and anonymous analysis tool regarding the effectiveness of published advertisements. In the next subsection “Advertising”, you will find details regarding the relevance of these tools from the point of view of data protection legislation. If you reach our website by clicking on an ad (banner) published by us on another website, a cookie is stored in your internet browser. Based on the cookie module, we can determine if you reached our page by clicking on this banner. Cookie modules lose their validity after 30 days. Identification of your person by us or by the supplier of the tool is not possible. If you do not want to participate in this anonymous analysis, you can disable cookies in the browser settings.
The steps described below apply to the following versions of internet browsing programs: Internet Explorer 11.18.*, Mozilla Firefox 59.0.* and Google Chrome 66.0.*
If you do not find the buttons indicated by us or you use another Internet browsing program, read the instructions regarding the prevention and deletion of cookies from the assistance menu of the browsing program or of the application manufacturer.
By deactivating the cookie option, you can also affect the functionality of other internet pages, so come back at any time to the settings of your internet browsing program and modify the options as needed.
For Internet Explorer:
1 Choose the “Internet Options” button from the “Tools” menu
2 Click on the “Privacy” button then the “Advanced” button
3 Select “Block” and uncheck “Always allow cookie sessions” then confirm by pressing the “OK” button
For Mozilla Firefox:
1 Choose the “Options” button from the “Tools” menu
2 Press the “Privacy and security” button, then find the “History” section
3 From the “Firefox will” drop-down list, select “Use custom options for history”
4 Uncheck “Accept cookies from internet pages”
For Google Chrome
1 Choose from the “Customize and control Google Chrome” menu (on the right, top) the “Options” button, then press the “Advanced” button
2 In the “Privacy and security” section, press the “Content settings” button
3 Click on the “Cookies” button then uncheck “Allow websites to save and read cookies”
Cookies are also used by us to recognize your computer on other internet pages that participate in the Google display network based on logged data (visiting our website, including date and time, language preferences, browser type and operating system) and to display there advertisements adapted to your supposed interests. You can view, remove or add the categories according to which ads adapted to your interests are displayed in the entire Google display network by managing ad preferences. Through this tool, you can also reject the general use of cookies for personalized advertising in the Google Display network by downloading and installing the browser insert to disable the cookie module for ad preferences, following this link. Additional information regarding the activation of Google ads can be found here.
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