What are cookies?
A “cookie” is a small text file that a website places on your computer or mobile device when you access it.
• Original cookies are installed by the website you are visiting. They can only be read by that website. In addition, websites sometimes use external services, which place their own cookies – these are third-party cookies.
• Persistent cookies are cookies stored on your computer that, unlike session cookies, are not automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Each time you visit the Global Assistance Services website, you will be invited to accept or reject our cookies.
The purpose is to allow the website to remember your preferences (such as username, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
This way, you do not have to re-enter this data when browsing the website during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to create anonymous statistics about the browsing experience on our websites.
How do we use cookies?
The Global Assistance Services website primarily uses original cookies. They are installed and controlled by Global Assistance Services, not by external organizations.
However, in order to view certain pages/sections, you will also need to accept cookies from external organizations.
We use 3 types of original cookies:
• Necessary cookies;
• Statistical cookies;
• Marketing cookies;
Necessary cookies
These cookies are placed by us and only we can read them. They remember:
• if you have accepted (or rejected) this website’s cookie policy
• if you have selected the display language of the website.
| Denumire | Furnizor | Scop | Expirare | Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| catAccCookies | www.globalasistance.ro | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 an | HTTP Cookie |
| pll_language | www.globalasistance.ro | Stores the user’s cookie language state for the current domain | 1 an | HTTP Cookie |
| PHPSESSID | www.globalasistance.ro | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
Statistical cookies
Statistical cookies help site owners understand how visitors interact with sites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
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Denumire Furnizor Scop Expirare Tip _ga Google Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 ani HTTP Cookie _gat www.globalasistance.ro Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate 1 zi HTTP Cookie _gid Google Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 zi HTTP Cookie
The names of these cookies may change for technical reasons.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track users from one site to another. The intent is to show relevant and engaging ads to individual users, so they are more valuable to advertising agencies and third parties dealing with advertising.
| Denumire | Furnizor | Scop | Expirare | Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Google Tag Manager | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 luni | HTTP Cookie |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 luni | HTTP Cookie |
| fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 luni | HTTP Cookie | |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 an | HTTP Cookie | |
| NID | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 6 luni | HTTP Cookie | |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. | Session | Pixel Tracker | |
| pagead/landing | Google Inc. | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| RUL | Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed – This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient. | 1 an | HTTP Cookie | |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 1 zi | HTTP Cookie | |
| tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Session | Pixel Tracker |
How can you manage cookies?
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish – details on aboutcookies.org.
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
However, this means that you may lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check your privacy settings and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device. However, this may mean that you will have to manually adjust certain preferences every time you visit a website/page. Some services and functionalities may not work properly (e.g. logging in to a specific profile).