Privacy and Cookies Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Our company processes a series of personal data of Users (whether they are registered or not) when they use our website.  This privacy policy describes what types of data considered "personal data" according to EU Regulation 2016/679, are processed, how they are used, what your options are in relation to this processing, and how our company will respect your rights as a data subject under the legislation on the protection of personal data, including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR").

 

1) Who is responsible for processing your data?

Aius Printed SRL publishing house, registered at the Trade Register with No. Registration J16/2389/1991, CUI 2307037 is the operator of personal data, according to the legislation on the protection of personal data including those in accordance with EU Regulation 2016/679, regarding the personal data of users collected and processed through the website and in the context of the services offered through it in connection with our website.

For the processing of personal data, our company has appointed a data protection officer (Data Protection Officer or DPO) who can be contacted using the following contact details:

 

Data Protection Officer
Address: Str. Pascani, no. 9, Craiova, Romania
Email: editura.aius@gmail.com
Phone: 0040 351 467 471

 

2) What data do we process?

Our company processes the personal data you provide us when you use our website (for example when you comment in the comments section, when you register for our newsletter), when you buy a subscription, when you register in our campaigns (or campaigns organized together with our partners), when you want to receive communications of a commercial nature.

We also use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you and your devices, and we allow our partners to use cookies. The way we use these technologies are described in the Cookies Policy.

 

Transmission of commercial communications

We want to send you promotional materials, inform you about new products / services offered by our company and communicate other similar information that we believe may be of interest to you, including, if you agree, by sending promotional materials / marketing communications regarding the products / services of our company's partners.

 

Analysis of your interaction with our company in order to provide personalized offers, including based on advanced analytics

In certain situations, we may use information collected from you in combination with data we obtain from our sales and/or marketing teams about your interaction with our company, to use in the context of our marketing communications. We want to streamline our marketing activity, offering our customers relevant and personalized products, services. Also, if you agree, we may perform advanced analysis of your interests and preferences resulting from the information we have about you from your interaction with us, as well as by combining data obtained from third parties (for example, through web browsing analysis technologies) to send you commercial communications tailored to your needs and preferences. We can carry out various reports, analyzes and statistical studies regarding organized marketing campaigns and their success, sales activity / processing.

 

Execution of the contract concluded with us

When you buy books or electronic applications from our website, we may process certain personal data necessary for these purposes (for example, first and last name, delivery / delivery address, transaction data, etc.)

 

User relationship management and support

We have an interest in providing adequate services through our website to all people who access it. Therefore, we process a series of personal data for the purpose of managing relations with the users of the website, for example when they contact us with various questions or requests regarding the functionalities of the website, questions regarding the services of our company, offered through the website, etc. Legal basis: art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest consisting in our interest in providing adequate services.

 

Analysis and statistics regarding the operation of the website, cookies and similar technologies

We may use the personal data that users provide or that we collect in the context of using the services for the purpose of performing analyzes and statistics regarding our services, including how the website works or our services are offered. The analyzes and statistics we make help us better understand how we could improve our services or the functionality of the website. In performing analyzes and statistics, we also use cookies and other similar technologies according to the Cookies Policy. Cookies and similar technologies are also used to provide you with interest-based advertising.

 

Login via social networks

We have implemented various mechanisms of interconnection with social media pages such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Instagram to give users the possibility to access the content posted on us on the website and our associated accounts on those social networks more easily. If you access the content posted on those social networks or comment on those social networks, or access the website through your Facebook account, a series of public data from your profile on those social networks will also be transmitted to us by the operators of those social networks.

 

Meeting legal obligations

In some cases, data processing is necessary to fulfill our legal obligations, such as: reporting to the relevant tax authorities and keeping accounting records; data archiving according to the applicable legislation.

 

Defense of rights and interests in justice

For the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal right in a proceeding before a court, an administrative proceeding or other official proceedings in which our company is involved.

 

3) To whom is this data disclosed?

We may disclose your personal data to:

• entities and/or persons authorized by us involved in the provision of our services, including the provision of commercial communications (such as data center providers, payment service providers for various payment facilities, providers of e-mailing platforms such as Google Mail);
• if we have an obligation to disclose personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or decision of a judicial authority, public authority or government body;
• if we are required or otherwise permitted to do so under applicable law.

Likewise, your personal data may be disclosed to third-party providers of cookies and similar technologies as described in the Cookies Policy.

 

4) What rights do you have as a data subject?

According to the law, you have the following rights as a data subject:

 

Right of access

You can obtain from us confirmation that we are processing your personal data, as well as information regarding the specifics of the processing.

 

The right to correct data

You can ask us to change your incorrect personal data or, as the case may be, to complete data that is incomplete.

 

Right to erasure

You can request the deletion of your personal data when:

• they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which we collected and process them;
• you have withdrawn your consent for data processing and we no longer have the right to process them on other legal grounds;
• the data are processed against the law;
• data must be deleted according to relevant legislation.

 

Withdrawal of consent and right of opposition

You can withdraw your consent to data processing based on consent at any time. You can also object at any time to processing for marketing purposes, including profiling carried out for this purpose, as well as processing based on the legitimate interest of our company, for reasons related to your specific situation.

 

Restriction

Under certain conditions you can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

 

The right to data portability

To the extent that we process data by automated means, you may, under the law, request that we provide your data in a structured, frequently used and machine-readable form.  If you ask us to do so, we may transfer your data to another entity, if technically possible.

 

The right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority

You have the right to file a complaint with the data processing supervisory authority if you believe that your rights have been violated:

National Authority for the Supervision of Personal Data in Romania
G-ral Blvd. Gheorghe Magheru 28-30 Sector 1, postal code 010336 Bucharest, Romania
anspdcp@dataprotection.ro

To exercise the rights mentioned above, you can contact us using the contact details defined in section 1 (DPO Contact Details).

 

 

COOKIE POLICY

The following information is presented in order to inform the user regarding the use of "cookies" in our site or in partner sites.

This website uses its own and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a much better browsing experience and services adapted to everyone's needs and interests. 

In what we call "web 2.0", "cookies" play an important role in facilitating the access and delivery of the multiple services that the user enjoys on the Internet, such as customizing certain settings such as: the language in which a site is viewed, the currency in which certain prices or rates are expressed, keeping the options for various products (measurements, other details, etc.) in the shopping cart (and memorizing these options) - thus generating the flexibility of the "cart" shopping" (accessing old preferences by accessing the "forward" and "back" button)

Cookies provide site owners with valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, so that they can make them even more efficient and accessible to users. Allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included on a particular site to create a more valuable, useful and enjoyable browsing experience;
They improve the effectiveness of online advertising.

What is a "cookie"? An "Internet Cookie" (term also known as "browser cookie" or "HTTP cookie" or simply "cookie") is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other equipment of a user from which the Internet is accessed. The cookie is installed by the request issued by a web server to a browser (eg: Internet Explorer, Chrome) and is completely "passive" (does not contain software, viruses or spyware and cannot access information on the user's hard drive). A cookie consists of 2 parts: the name and the content or value of the cookie. Furthermore, the lifetime of a cookie is determined; technically, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that web server.

Cookies themselves do not request personal information to be used and do not personally identify Internet users.


There are 2 large categories of cookies:

Session cookies – these are temporarily stored in the cookies folder of the web browser so that it remembers them until the user leaves the respective website or closes the browser window (eg when logging in/out of a webmail account or on social networks).

Persistent Cookies – These are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (and generally depend on the lifetime of the cookie). Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at the time - known as "third party cookies" - which can be used anonymously to remember a user's interests, so that the most relevant advertising is delivered to users.

What are the advantages of cookies? A cookie contains information that connects a web browser (the user) and a specific web server (the website). If a browser accesses that web server again, it can read the information already stored and react accordingly. Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to provide comfortable services to users: eg – online privacy preferences, website language options, shopping carts or relevant advertising.

What is the lifetime of a cookie? Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifetime 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 no longer retained once the user has left the website, and some cookies are retained and reused each time the user returns to that website ("permanent cookies"). However, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time through the browser settings.

What are cookies placed by third parties? Certain sections of content on some sites may be provided through third parties/providers (eg news box, a video or an advertisement). These third parties can also place cookies through the website and they are called "third party cookies" because they are not placed by the owner of the respective website. Third party providers must also comply with applicable law and the privacy policies of the site owner.

How are cookies used by this site?
A visit to this site may place cookies for the purposes of:
- Website performance cookies
- Visitor analysis cookies
- Cookies for geotargetting
- Registration cookies
- Cookies for advertising
- Cookies of advertising providers

Performance cookies 
This type of cookie remembers the user's preferences on this site, so that it is no longer necessary to set them each time the site is visited. Examples: volume settings for the video player video streaming speed with which the browser is compatible...

Cookies for visitor analysis
Each time a user visits this site, analytics software provided by a third party generates a user analytics cookie. This cookie tells us if you have visited this site before. Your browser will tell us if you have this cookie, and if you don't, we'll generate one. It allows tracking of unique users who visit us and how often they do so. As long as you are not registered on this site, this cookie cannot be used to identify individuals, they are only used for statistical purposes.
 
Cookies for geotargetting
These cookies are used by a software that determines which country you come from. It is completely anonymous and is only used to target content – even when you are on our page in Romanian or another language you receive the same advertisement.

Cookies for registration
When you register on this site, we generate a cookie that tells us whether you are registered or not. Our servers use these cookies to show us the account you are registered with and whether you have permission for a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comment you post on our site with your username. If you have not selected "keep me logged in", this cookie will be automatically deleted when you close your browser or computer.

Cookies for advertising
These cookies allow us to find out whether or not you have viewed an online advertisement, what type of advertisement it is and how long it has been since you saw the advertisement message. We also use these cookies to target online advertising. We may also use third-party cookies to better target advertising, for example to show holiday advertisements if the user has recently visited an article on the site about holidays. These cookies are anonymous, they store information about the content viewed, not about the users. We also set anonymous cookies through other sites on which we advertise. By receiving them in this way, we can use them to recognize you as a visitor to that site if you subsequently visit our site, we can deliver advertising to you based on this information.

Cookies of advertising providers
Much of the advertising you find on a site belongs to third parties. Some of these parties use their own anonymous cookies to analyze how many people have been exposed to an advertising message, or to see how many people have been exposed to the same advertisement more than once. The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and this site does not have access to read or write these cookies. Third-party cookies can be used to show you targeted advertising on other sites as well, based on your browsing on this site.

Other third-party cookies
On some pages, third parties may set their own anonymous cookies in order to track the success of an application or to customize an application. Due to the way of use, this site cannot access these cookies, just as third parties cannot access the cookies held by this site. For example, when you share an article using the social network button on the site, that social network will record your activity

What type of information is stored and accessed through cookies? Cookies store information in a small text file that allows a website to recognize a browser. The web server will recognize the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the Internet browsing experience (eg: language settings in which a website is accessed; keeping a user logged in to the webmail account; online banking security; keeping products in the shopping cart)

Why are cookies important to the Internet? Cookies 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 unusable. Rejecting or deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising - only that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior. Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require the authentication of a user through an account): Content and services adapted to the user's preferences – categories of news, weather, sports, maps, public and government services, entertainment sites and travel services. Offers tailored to user interests – password retention, language preferences (Ex: display of search results in Romanian). Retention of child protection filters on Internet content (family mode options, safe search functions). Limiting the frequency of serving ads - limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a specific user on a site. Providing more relevant advertising to the user. Measurement, optimization and analytics 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 (eg through search engines, directly, from other websites, etc.). The websites carry out these analyzes of their use in order to improve the sites for the benefit of the users.

Security and privacy issues
Cookies are NOT viruses! They use plain text formats. They are not made up of pieces of code so they cannot be executed or auto-run. Consequently, they cannot be duplicated or replicated to other networks to run or replicate again. Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses. Cookies can still be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about users' preferences and browsing history, both on a particular site and across multiple sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this fact and constantly mark cookies for deletion during anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures. In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period and automatic deletion after the user has visited a certain site. Other security aspects related to cookies: Since identity protection is very valuable and is the right of every Internet user, it is advisable to know what possible problems cookies can create. Because through them information is constantly transmitted in both directions between the browser and the website, if an attacker or unauthorized person intervenes during the data transmission, the information contained in the cookie can be intercepted. Although very rare, this can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (eg an unsecured WiFi network). Other cookie-based attacks involve missetting cookies on servers. If a website does not instruct the browser to use only encrypted channels, attackers can use this vulnerability to trick browsers into sending information over unsecured channels. The attackers then use the information to gain unauthorized access to certain websites . It is very important to be careful in choosing the most appropriate method of protecting personal information. Tips for safe and responsible browsing, based on cookies. Due to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, they are almost unavoidable. Disabling cookies will not allow the user access to the most widespread and used sites including Youtube, Gmail, Yahoo and others.

A few tips that can ensure that you surf without worries but with the help of cookies
Customize your browser cookie settings to reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you. If you don't mind cookies and you are the only person using the computer, you can set long expiration periods for storing your browsing history and personal access data. If you share computer access, you may consider setting your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close the browser. This is an option to access sites that place cookies and delete any visit information when you close the browsing session. Install and constantly update your antispyware applications. Many spyware detection and prevention applications include detection of site attacks. Thus, it prevents the browser from accessing websites that could exploit browser vulnerabilities or download dangerous software. Make sure your browser is always up to date. Many of the cookie-based attacks are carried out by exploiting the weak points of old versions of browsers. Cookies are everywhere and cannot be avoided if you want to enjoy access to the best and biggest sites on the Internet - local or international. With a clear understanding of how they work and the benefits they bring, you can take the necessary security measures so that you can surf the Internet with confidence.

How can I stop cookies? Disabling and refusing to receive cookies may make certain websites impractical or difficult to visit and use. Also, refusing to accept cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive/see online advertising. It is possible to set the browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted or you can set the browser to accept cookies from a specific site. But, for example, if you are not registered using cookies, you will not be able to leave comments. All modern browsers offer the possibility to change cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser.

 

Useful links:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
http://www.google.com/intl/ro/policies/technologies/cookies/
https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies