This policy regulates the use of cookies and establishes the legal basis of the TALENT SPOTTER company for the use of “cookies” and similar technologies on the website or on systems connected to the website: http://www.talentspotter.ro/ This policy refers to cookies and similar technologies used, as appropriate, in the website operated by TECH STREAM DIGITAL CONSULTING SERVICES S.R.L. hereinafter called “TALENT SPOTTER” with headquarters in the city of Chitila, Șos. Banatului 14, bl. 33, sc. 1, ap. 389, Ilfov county. This policy is in addition to the TALENT SPOTTER policy on the protection of personal data in general and the Terms and Conditions of the website which you can find at ( /privacy-policy/ and /terms-and-conditions/ ) which we encourage you to read them.
Cookies are small text files, consisting of letters and numbers, sent by a website server to a Web browser (Web browser: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.), RAM memory or hard disk drive and then stored there. The cookie is installed by the request issued by the user’s terminal to a TALENT SPOTTER server or to a third party server.
They may be used for different purposes, such as: personalizing the website according to the needs of a particular user, helping a user navigate the website, improving the quality of the website for the user or storing the user’s preferences and login information.
Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support TALENT SPOTTER’s efforts to provide more tailored services to users, like: – online privacy preferences. They are also used in the preparation of aggregate anonymous statistics that help us understand how a user benefits from our Internet pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content, without allowing the user to be personally identified.
“Essential” or “non-essential” cookies – Essential cookies: have one of the following two characteristics:
• are used exclusively to perform or facilitate communication in a network; or
• are strictly necessary for the provision of an online service (like: our website or a service on our website) requested by you.
Non-essential cookies: These do not fall under the definition of essential cookies, because they are not strictly necessary for the operation of a website or the services offered on it, such as cookies used to analyse the behaviour on a website (“analytical” cookies ) or cookies used to display advertisements.
Session and persistent cookies – Depending on the storage period after their placement in a browser, Cookies can be of two types: “session” and “persistent”,
Session cookies: remain on the device as long as the web browser is open. They expire when the web browser is closed.
Persistent cookies: expire after a certain period of time or if they are manually deleted from the web browser.
Our cookies or those of third parties – Depending on their affiliation, Cookies can be classified into two groups: those belonging to the website visited or those belonging to third parties.
• Cookies that belong to our website (primary): are the cookies placed on your device by the domain of our website.
• Cookies that belong to third parties: they are cookies placed on your device by domains of websites that belong to third parties.
Cookies and/or similar technologies are central to the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to generate a user-friendly browsing experience tailored to each user’s preferences and interests. Rejecting or disabling cookies may make some sites or parts of sites impossible to use. Deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive, in compliance with the law, online advertising – but only that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behaviour.
Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require the authentication of a user through an account):
• Content and services tailored to user preferences – categories of products and services.
• Offers tailored to users’ interests
• Measuring, optimizing and adapting analysis features – such as confirming a certain level of traffic on a website, what type of content is viewed and how a user arrives at a website (like: through search engines, directly, from other websites etc.). Websites run these analyses regarding their use in order to improve their services for the benefit of users.
TALENT SPOTTER is using following cookies on the website http://www.talentspotter.ro/
| Name | Version | Type | Owner | Session/ Persistent | Retention | Use scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Essential | HTTP | TALENT SPOTTER | session | During session | Preserves user session state between page requests |
| __utm.gif | Nonessential | Statistic | google-analytics.com | session | During session | Google Analytics tracking code that records details about the visitor’s browser and computer |
In general, an application used to access web pages allows cookies and/or similar technologies to be saved on the terminal by default. They are stored for the periods described in the table above. These settings can be changed in such a way that the automatic administration of cookies is blocked by the web browser or the user is informed each time cookies are sent to his terminal.
Detailed information about the possibilities and ways to manage cookies can be found in the settings area of the application (web browser).
Acceptance or rejection of Cookies – Any user of the http://www.talentspotter.ro/ site can accept the use of cookies, before starting to browse the site, by simply pressing the “ACCEPT” button on the Cookies bar which is displayed on the screen. In a similar way and in full respect of the conditions for obtaining consent, any visitor has the right to disagree with the use of cookies, by simply pressing the “REFUSE” button located on the same cookie bar. Opting out will not prevent you from continuing to browse the site, and the only consequences may be a slightly longer loading time for some pages.
Through this Cookies Policy we demonstrate compliance with the GDPR principle of transparency, because we explain to users what cookies are, why we use them, what types of cookies are used, the retention period for each type of cookie, how you can accept or give up cookies through simple and direct actions, as well as the option to set cookies by setting the menus in the browser.
Our Cookies policy does not condition browsing the site on the acceptance of Cookies, but it describes in an accessible language the inconveniences that may arise if Cookies are partially or totally rejected. Consent or refusal to use Cookies are direct, clear actions that transparently respond to the user’s desire. The TALENT SPOTTER website does not use pre-checked boxes to obtain consent, nor does it condition browsing on the acceptance of the use of cookies.