The website https://www.indianfood.ro uses cookies.
The information presented below is intended to inform the user about the placement, use, and management of cookies used by the website https://www.indianfood.ro.
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This website may use both its own cookies and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a better browsing experience and services tailored to each individual's needs and interests.
As we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to block certain types of cookies from this site.
Cookies play an important role in facilitating access and delivering various services that users enjoy 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 fees are expressed, retaining options for various products (sizes, other details, etc.) in the shopping cart (and remembering these options), saving certain preferences for future reuse.
- Providing website owners with valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, allowing them to make them more efficient and easily accessible.
- Allowing multimedia or other types of applications from other sites to be included in a particular site to create a more valuable, useful, and enjoyable browsing experience.
- Enhancing the efficiency of online advertising.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, that will be stored on the computer, mobile device, or other equipment of a user accessing the Internet.
The cookie is installed by a request issued by a web server to a browser (e.g., Chrome, Firefox) and is completely "passive" (it does not contain software programs, viruses, or spyware and cannot access information from the user's hard drive).
A cookie consists of 2 parts: the name and the content or value of the cookie. Furthermore, the lifespan 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, in most cases, do not personally identify internet users.
There are 2 major categories of cookies:
- Session Cookies - these are temporarily stored in the web browser's cookie folder so that it can remember them until the user closes the browser window or logs out of the respective site.
- Persistent Cookies - These are stored on the hard drive of a computer or equipment (and generally depend on the predetermined lifespan of the cookie). Persistent cookies include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at that time - known as 'third-party cookies' - which can be used anonymously to remember a user's preferences.
What are the Advantages of Cookies?
A cookie contains information that links 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 ensure users a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to provide comfortable services to users: e.g., preferences for online privacy, language options for the site, shopping carts, or relevant advertising.
What is the Lifespan of a Cookie?
Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifespan 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 every time the user returns to that website (persistent cookies). However, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time through browser settings.
What are Third-Party Cookies?
Certain content sections on some sites can be provided through third parties/providers (e.g., a video, an advertisement, a chat application, etc.). These third parties can also place cookies through the site and are called "third-party cookies" because they are not placed by the owner of that respective website. Third-party providers must also comply with current laws and the privacy policies of the site owner.
How are Cookies Used by This Site?
Cookies ensure users a pleasant browsing experience and support our efforts to provide comfortable services to users through features such as privacy preferences, shopping carts, or relevant advertising. They are also used in preparing anonymous aggregate statistics that help us understand how a user benefits from our web pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content, excluding personal identification of the user.
A visit to this site can place the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies
- Performance Cookies
- Social Media and Advertising Cookies
Certain cookies, such as performance or social media and advertising cookies, may come from third parties.
Essential Cookies
These cookies allow both saving preferences for other types of cookies used and accessing the basic functionalities of this site.
They retain user preferences on this site, so there is no need to set them each time the site is visited.
Login cookies are generated when a user registers on this site, with the aim of informing us later whether they are registered or not. Our servers use these cookies to show us the account you are registered with and to provide you with an easier interaction experience with the site.
Other cookies that we place to allow you to use the site optimally are cookies corresponding to the shopping cart and Favorite lists (to save information related to the products you have added to the cart or as Favorites), location cookies (used to determine your location based on IP, to pre-fill certain fields required for registration or order placement), session cookies generated at access and automatically deleted when the browser is closed (necessary for the operation of the HTTP protocol, completing certain forms, interacting with certain elements on the site, etc.), cookies that recognize the type of device used - desktop or mobile, cookies from chat applications that allow real-time discussions with the customer relations service.
Performance Cookies
These include both cookies from traffic analysis services and cookies placed by certain third-party services that offer complementary functionalities to the site.
Traffic analysis cookies allow the aggregate measurement of site traffic, identification of traffic sources, provide information about the most visited or least accessed pages, as well as how users interact with the site. The information listed is collected in aggregate and implicitly completely anonymous. These cookies may come from third parties such as Web Analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics).
Social Media and Advertising Cookies
These can be placed through the site by the social media or advertising services we use.
This type of cookies can be used by these services to determine a specific profile of visitors and display relevant advertising messages on other sites you visit.
They may come from third parties such as advertising services (e.g., AdSense, AdWords), social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), etc.
Due to the way they are used, this site cannot access these third-party cookies, just as third parties cannot access the cookies held by this site. For example, when you share an article using the social media button on this 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 webserver will recognize the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the browsing experience on the Internet (e.g., keeping a user logged into their user account, keeping products in the shopping cart, keeping products in the Favorites list).
Why are Cookies Important for the Internet?
Cookies are the central point of the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to generate a user-friendly browsing experience adapted to each user's preferences and interests. Refusing or disabling cookies can hinder the use of a site.
Refusing or disabling 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 browsing behavior.
Examples of important uses of cookies (that do not require user authentication through an account):
- Content and services tailored to user preferences - news categories, weather, sports, maps, public and government services, entertainment sites, and travel services.
- Offers tailored to user interests - remembering passwords, language preferences (e.g., displaying search results in the Romanian language).
- Retaining child protection filters for Internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
- Limiting the frequency of advertising broadcasts - limiting the number of times an ad is displayed 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 reaches a website (e.g., through search engines, direct, from other websites, etc.). Websites perform these usage analyses to improve their sites for the benefit of users.
- Security and privacy issues
Cookies use plain text formats. They are not composed of code snippets, so they cannot be executed or self-run. However, cookies can be used for negative purposes. Since they store information about users' preferences and browsing history, both on a specific site and on several other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this fact and consistently mark cookies for deletion during antivirus/anti-spyware scanning procedures.
In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity periods, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a particular site. Other security aspects related to cookies
Since identity protection is highly valuable and represents the right of every internet user, it is advisable to know what potential issues cookies can create. Because they constantly transmit information in both directions between the browser and the website, if an attacker or unauthorized person intervenes in the data transmission process, 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 (e.g., an unsecured WiFi network).
Other cookie-based attacks involve incorrect cookie settings on servers. If a website does not request the browser to use only encrypted channels, attackers can use this vulnerability to deceive browsers into sending information through unsecured channels. Attackers then use the information for unauthorized access to certain sites. It is very important to be careful in choosing the most suitable 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 sites and the largest ones use cookies, these are almost inevitable. Disabling cookies will not allow the user access to the most widespread and used sites, including YouTube, Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, and others. Here are some tips that can ensure you navigate without worries but with the help of cookies:
- Customize your browser settings regarding cookies to reflect a comfortable level of security in using cookies.
- If you don't mind cookies and are the only person using the computer, you can set long expiration terms for storing browsing history and personal access data.
- If you share computer access, you may consider setting the browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close the browser. This is a way to access sites that place cookies and delete any visit information at the end of the browsing session.
- Install antispyware applications and update them constantly.
- Many spyware detection and prevention applications include detection of attacks on websites. Thus, they prevent the browser from accessing websites that could exploit browser vulnerabilities or download dangerous software. Make sure you always have an updated browser. Many cookie-based attacks exploit the weaknesses of old browser versions.
Cookies are everywhere and cannot be avoided if you want to enjoy access to the most popular sites on the Internet. With a clear understanding of how they operate and the benefits they bring, you can take the necessary security measures to confidently browse the internet.
How Can I Stop Cookies?
It is possible to configure the browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted, or you can configure the browser to accept cookies only from a specific site.
All modern browsers offer the possibility to configure cookie storage preferences. These settings are usually found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. To understand these settings, you can use the browser's "help" option for more details.
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