COOKIES POLICY

Updated version August 2024

This policy regulates the use of cookies and establishes the legal basis of the HUMANA ROMANIA company for the use of "cookies" and similar technologies on the website or on systems connected to the website: https://www.humana-romania.ro. This policy refers to cookies and similar technologies used, as the case may be, in the websites and applications operated by SC HUMANA ROMANIA SRL with registered office in Ploiești-Târgoviște Road, KM 8, Zona Est Trup II, Floor 2, Parc Industrial Ploiesti, Jud. Prahova, Romania (hereinafter referred to as "HUMANA ROMANIA") on the website https://www.humana-romania.ro/ (hereinafter referred to as "WEBSITE") This policy is supplemented by the policy of HUMANA ROMANIA regarding the protection of personal data generally and with the Site Terms and Conditions.

About Cookies

Cookies are small text files, consisting of letters and numbers, sent by a website server to a Web browser (Web browser: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari), RAM memory or hard disk drive and then stored there. 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 ensure a pleasant browsing experience for users and support HUMANA ROMANIA's efforts to offer more tailored services to users, ex. online privacy preferences, shopping cart or relevant advertising. 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 and non-essential cookies - Cookies can be classified as "essential" or "non-essential". Essential cookies: are used exclusively to perform or facilitate communication in a network; or are strictly necessary for the provision of an online service (ex. 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 at a fixed point in 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.

The cookies that belong to our website (primary): are the cookies placed on your device by the domain of our website.

Third-party cookies: are cookies placed on your device by domains of websites that belong to third parties.

Why are Cookies important for browsing the Internet?

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
• Password retention
• Retention of child protection filters regarding Internet content (family mode, safe search options).
• Limiting the frequency of serving ads – limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a specific user on a site.
• Providing relevant advertising to the user.
• 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 (ex: 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.

Types of Cookies we use

Cookie-uri strict necesare

Cheie cookie	Tip cookie	Expirare	Descriere
_cmp_a	Prima parte	1 zi	Acest cookie este utilizat pentru a stoca preferințele de consimțământ ale utilizatorului pentru a gestiona cookie-urile și alte tehnologii de urmărire.
_orig_referrer	Prima parte	14 zile	Acest cookie este furnizat în general de Shopify și este utilizat în legătură cu un coș de cumpărături.
primire-cookie-depreciere	Prima parte	Sesiune	Acest cookie este utilizat pentru a semnala proprietarului site-ului web despre învechirea cookie-urilor primite de sistem, asigurând conformitatea și adaptabilitatea cu standardele web în evoluție și legislația privind confidențialitatea.
secure_customer_sig	Prima parte	1 an	Acest cookie este furnizat în general de Shopify și este utilizat în legătură cu autentificarea unui client.
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	Terță parte .youtube.com	6 luni	Acest cookie este utilizat pentru a stoca consimțământul utilizatorului și opțiunile de confidențialitate pentru interacțiunea acestuia cu site-ul. Înregistrează date despre consimțământul vizitatorului cu privire la diverse politici și setări de confidențialitate, asigurându-se că preferințele sale sunt respectate în sesiunile viitoare.

Cookie-uri de performanță

Cheie cookie	Tip cookie	Expirare	Descriere
_landing_page	Prima parte	14 zile	Acest cookie este utilizat pentru a urmări, raporta și analiza paginile de destinație.
_shopify_s	Prima parte	30 de minute	Acest cookie este asociat cu suita de analiză Shopify.
_shopify_sa_p	Prima parte	30 de minute	Acest cookie este asociat cu suita de analize Shopify privind marketingul și recomandările.
_shopify_sa_t	Prima parte	30 de minute	Acest cookie este asociat cu suita de analize Shopify privind marketingul și recomandările.
_shopify_y	Prima parte	1 an	Acest cookie este asociat cu suita de analiză Shopify.

Cookie-uri de direcționare

Cheie cookie	Tip cookie	Expirare	Descriere
_tracking_consent	Prima parte	1 an	Preferințe de urmărire.
YSC	Terță parte .youtube.com	Sesiune	Acest cookie este setat de YouTube pentru a urmări vizionările videoclipurilor încorporate.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Terță parte .youtube.com	6 luni	Acest cookie este setat de Youtube pentru a ține evidența preferințelor utilizatorilor pentru videoclipurile Youtube încorporate în site-uri; de asemenea, poate determina dacă vizitatorul site-ului web folosește versiunea nouă sau veche a interfeței Youtube.

Cookie-uri de funcționalitate

Cheie cookie	Tip cookie	Expirare	Descriere
localizare	Prima parte	1 an	Aceste cookie-uri sunt setate pe paginile cu widget-ul Flickr.

Acceptance or rejection of Cookies 

Any user can accept or reject some or all of the Cookie’s modules by manually setting preferences in the menus of the browser used. How this can actually be done in the main browsers used by users can be seen by accessing the links of the most popular web browsers:

• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=ro
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
• Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=ro_RO
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=ro-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History

Security and privacy issues

Browsers generally have built-in privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a particular site.

Other security aspects related to cookies:

• Customizing your browser's cookie settings to reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you.
• If you are the only person using the computer, you can optionally 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 visiting information when you close the browsing session.

Cookies policy from the GDPR perspective

According to Directive 58/ 2002, regarding the protection of private life in electronic communications, updated by EC Directive 136/ 2009, Art. 5 (3) requires prior informed consent regarding the storage or access to information stored on the user's terminal equipment. In other words, users must be asked if they agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies (Web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) and their consent must be obtained before browsing the site.

The Cookies page on the HUMANA ROMANIA website explains to users:

• why cookies are used
• if the cookies are essential for the operation of the website or for a certain functionality or if they aim to improve the performance of the website
• the types of cookies used
• how users can withdraw their consent or manually disable the use of Cookies.

Regulation 679/2016 considers IP identifiers as personal data, which Directive 58 did not provide. This means that website owners have to ensure the compliance requirements for the acquisition and retention of IPs through Cookies. Since cookies can be used to uniquely identify an individual, then they must be treated as personal data.

Users of the HUMANA ROMANIA website has the opportunity to choose. Our Cookies policy does not condition browsing on the website to accept Cookies, but describes in an accessible language the inconveniences that may arise if Cookies are partially or totally rejected. Consent to the use of Cookies is a CLEAR AFFIRMATIVE action, easy to prove. The HUMANA ROMANIA website does not use pre-checked boxes on consent forms. The GDPR clearly states that any data subject should be able to withdraw consent as easily as they gave it. On the cookies bar on the HUMANA ROMANIA website, any user has the possibility to allow the use of Cookies by pressing the "ACCEPT" button, but also the option to easily revoke the consent by pressing the "REFUSE" button.