Cookies
The Massaro.ro website uses it's own cookies to provide the users a good experience when visiting the site.
A visit at Massaro.ro can result in placing cookies for the following purposes:
- visitor analysis: allows the unique visitors tracking and how often an user returns on the website;
- register: shows if an user is registered on the website. The servers use these cookies to display the current loged in account and to verify it's permissions.
Other informations What is a cookie?
The cookie it's a small alphanumeric file, saved on the visitor's computer, mobile device or other equipment used to access the website. The cookie is installed on the request of a server directed at the browser (ex. Internet Explorer, Chrome) and it is harmless(it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware, and it cannot access information on the user's hard disk).
Only the webserver that sent the cookie can access it again, when the users returns on the website.
There are 2 cookie categories:
- Session cookies - these are temporary saved in the browser, they are kept until the user logs out of that website or closes the browser window.
- Persistent cookies - they are store on the hard-disk and generally they depend on the preset lifetime set for the cookie. The persistent cookies include the ones placed by another website - known as "third party cookies".
What are "third party" cookies?
Certain content can be placed on the visited website by other sites. It can take the form of banners, boxes, links, analysis and tracking codes, embed codes, social media plug-ins - all these tools can contain cookies. These are named "third party cookies" because they are not placed by the owner of the visited sitei and it is the duty of the third parties to obey and follow the current laws and the confidentiality policies of the site's owner.
Own cookies kist ( Massaro.ro ) - first-party cookies:
ASP.NET_SessionId- it's set for the current session. Duration: until the end of the current session. Role: keeps active the user's session.
Third-party cookies list:
- _ga - span for: 2 years - role: This cookie is being used by "Google Analytics" in order to distinguish the website users
- _gat - span for: 10 minutes - role: This cookie is being used by "Google Analytics" in order to check the user's interaction with the website
What kind of information is stored and accessed through cookies?
Cookies stores information into a small text file wich allows a website to recognize the user's browser. The webserver will recognize the user's browser until the cookie expires or until the cookie is deleted.
Security and privacy
Cookies are not viruses. However, cookies can be used in malicious purposes, as spyware, and many anti-spyware producs mark cookies to be deleted while running the delete/scans for anti-virus/anti-spyware procedures.
In general, browsers have privacy options which sets different acceptance levels for cookies, life span and automatic cleanup after the user visited a website.
How can cookies be stopped?
It's possible to setup the browser to reject cookies, or to accept only cookies from a specific website.
Every modern browser offers the possibility to change cookie settings. Use the "Help" area of the browset for more details.
In order to better understand these settings, you can visit the following links:
- Chrome cookie settings
- Mozilla Firefox cookie settings
- Safari cookie settings
- Internet Explorer cookie settings
- Opera cookie settings
Useful links
For more information about cookies and their usage, you visit the European Union's official website regarding cookies at the following links:
