Cookie Policy
Cookie policy on malvachic.com
The website www.malvachic.com uses cookies.
The following information aims to inform the user about the placement, use, and management of cookies used by the website www.malvachic.com. This website may use both its own cookies and cookies from third parties to provide visitors with a better browsing experience and services tailored to each individual’s needs and interests. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to block certain types of cookies from this site.
If you need more information, please contact us at hello@malvachic.com. Please read the following information carefully:
1. What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file consisting of letters and numbers, stored on users’ devices (computer, mobile phone) when accessing the internet. It is installed by a web server in the user’s browser (e.g., Chrome, Firefox) and is completely “passive” (without software programs, viruses, or spyware and without access to the user’s hard drive information). A cookie has two parts: its name and its content or value. The lifespan of a cookie is technically determined, and only the web server that sent it can access it again when the user returns to the associated website. Usually, cookies do not request personal information, and in most cases, they do not personally identify internet users.
2. What is the role of cookies?
Cookies play an important role in facilitating access and delivering multiple services that users enjoy on the internet, such as:
– Personalizing settings such as language preferences for viewing a site, currency in which prices or rates are expressed, retaining options for various products in the shopping cart, and storing these preferences for future use.
– Providing site owners valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, to improve their efficiency and accessibility.
– Allowing the inclusion of multimedia or other types of applications from other sites into a specific site, to create a more valuable, useful, and enjoyable browsing experience.
– Enhancing the efficiency of online advertising.
There are two major categories of cookies classified by duration and storage environment:
– Session cookies – these are temporarily stored in the web browser’s cookie folder so that it can retain them until the user closes the browser window or logs out from the respective site.
– Persistent cookies – these are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (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 the time – known as ‘third party cookies’ – which can be used anonymously to remember a user’s preferences.
3. What are the advantages of cookies?
A cookie is a small file 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 through 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 two parts: its name and its content or value. Furthermore, the lifespan of a cookie is technically determined; 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.
4. What is the lifespan of a cookie?
Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifespan of a cookie can vary, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used only for a session (session cookies) and are deleted when the user leaves the website, while others are retained and reused when the user returns (persistent cookies). However, users can delete cookies at any time through their browser settings.
5. What are third-party cookies?
Some sections of content on certain websites may be provided by third parties (e.g., videos, advertisements, chat applications). These third parties may also place cookies through the website and are known as “third-party cookies” because they are not placed by the respective owner of the site. Third-party providers must comply with applicable laws and the privacy policies of the site owner.
6. How are cookies used by malvachic.com?
Cookies contribute to a pleasant browsing experience for users and support our efforts to provide comfortable services through functionalities such as online privacy preferences, shopping cart features, and relevant advertising. They are also used to create aggregated anonymous statistics that help us understand how users benefit from our web pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content without personally identifying users.
Like most online services, our website uses both first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function correctly and do not collect any personally identifiable information.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly used to understand how the website functions, how you interact with our website, to keep our services secure, to provide relevant advertisements to you, and overall, to offer you a better and improved user experience, and to help accelerate your future interactions with our website.
We use these cookies on malvachic.com:
- Necessary/essential cookies
The necessary/essential cookies are used to activate the basic features of this site, such as providing secure authentication or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store personally identifiable information.
These cookies allow preferences regarding other types of cookies used to be saved and access the basic functionalities of this site. They retain user preferences on our site, eliminating the need to set them on each visit.
Registration cookies are created when a user registers on our site, to subsequently identify whether they are authenticated or not. Our servers use these cookies to display the account you are registered with and to provide you with a smoother interaction with the site.
The necessary/essential cookies used on malvachic.com are those listed in the table below.
| Cookie ID | Duration | Description | |
| cookieyes-consent | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. | |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Session | WooCommerce sets this cookie to record if there are any items in the WooCommerce shopping cart. | |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Session | WooCommerce sets this cookie to determine when cart contents/data changes. | |
| wp_woocommerce_session_* | 2 days | WooCommerce sets this cookie to make a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each one. | |
- Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information about metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. They include both cookies from traffic analysis services as well as cookies placed by certain third-party services that offer complementary functionalities to the website.
Traffic analysis cookies allow for the aggregated measurement of website traffic, identification of traffic sources, provide information about the most visited or least accessed pages, and how users interact with the site. The information listed is collected in an aggregated manner and therefore completely anonymous. These cookies may originate from third-party services such as Web Analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics).
| Cookie ID | Duration | Description | |
| sbjs_migrations | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| sbjs_current_add | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| sbjs_first_add | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| sbjs_current | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| sbjs_first | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| sbjs_udata | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| sbjs_session | 1 hour | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
3. Social media and advertising cookies
These cookies may be placed through the website by the social media or advertising services that we use. This type of cookies can be used by these services to create a profile of visitors and to display relevant advertising messages on other websites that you visit. They may originate from third parties such as advertising services (e.g., AdSense, AdWords), social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), etc.
Due to their usage, 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, the respective social network will record your activity.
7. What kind 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. Cookies store important information that improves the browsing experience on the Internet (e.g., keeping a user logged into their account; keeping products in the shopping cart; keeping products in the Favorites list).
8. Why are cookies important for the Internet?
Cookies are fundamental for the efficient functioning of the Internet, contributing to creating a user-friendly browsing experience tailored to each user’s preferences and interests. Refusing or disabling cookies can complicate the use of a website.
Refusing or disabling cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising, but it does mean that such advertising will no longer be personalized based on your preferences and interests, as indicated by your browsing behavior.
Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require user authentication through an account):
- Content and services tailored to user preferences – categories such as news, weather, sports, maps, public services and government, entertainment sites, and travel services.
- Offers tailored to user interests – remembering passwords, language preferences (e.g., displaying search results in Romanian).
- Remembering child protection filters regarding internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
- Limiting the frequency of ad display – restricting the number of times an ad is shown to a specific user on a site.
- Providing more relevant advertising to the user.
- Measuring, optimizing, and analytics features – such as confirming a certain level of traffic on a website, the type of content viewed, and how a user arrives at a website (e.g., through search engines, direct access, from other websites, etc.). Websites use these analytics to improve their sites for the benefit of their users.
9. Security and Privacy Issues
Cookies use simple text formats and do not contain pieces of code that can execute or self-run. They cannot be duplicated or replicated on other networks to be rerun or duplicated again. However, cookies can be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about users’ preferences and browsing history, both on a specific site and across other sites, cookies can be used as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products recognize this and consistently mark cookies to be deleted during anti-virus/anti-spyware scanning procedures.
Identity protection is extremely valuable and represents every internet user’s right, which is why it’s important to be aware of potential issues associated with cookies. Since they constantly transmit information bidirectionally between the browser and website, there is a risk that the information contained in cookies may be intercepted if an attacker or unauthorized person intervenes in the data transmission, especially in the case of an unencrypted server connection (e.g., an unsecured WiFi network).
Other types of cookie-based attacks involve improper settings on servers. If a website does not require the browser to use encrypted channels only, attackers can exploit this vulnerability to mislead browsers and send information through insecure channels. The captured information can then be used for unauthorized access to certain sites. Choosing an appropriate method of protecting personal information is essential for users.
In general, browsers include privacy settings that offer different levels of cookie acceptance, validity periods, and automatic deletion after the user visits a specific site. There are also other security aspects related to cookies.
10. Tips for Safe and Responsible Browsing Based on Cookies
Due to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest websites use cookies, they are almost unavoidable. Disabling cookies can limit user access to extremely popular sites such as YouTube, Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, and others. Here are some tips to help you navigate worry-free with the help of cookies:
- Customize your browser’s cookie settings to reflect a comfortable level of security for your use.
- If you don’t mind cookies and are the sole user of the computer, you can set long expiration terms for storing browsing history and personal access data.
- If you share computer access, consider setting your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close it. This allows you to access cookie-using sites without keeping visitation information after the browsing session ends.
- Install anti-spyware applications and ensure they are regularly updated. Many of these applications detect and prevent attacks on websites, preventing the browser from accessing sites that may exploit vulnerabilities or download harmful software.
- Ensure your browser is always up to date. Many cookie-based attacks exploit weaknesses in older browser versions.
Cookies are ubiquitous and cannot be avoided if you want access to the most popular sites on the internet. With a clear understanding of how they work and the benefits they bring, you can take necessary security measures to confidently navigate the internet.
11. Manage Your Cookie Preferences
It is possible to configure your browser to refuse these cookies or to accept cookies only from certain sites. All modern browsers offer options to configure cookie storage preferences. These settings are usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser. To understand how to configure these settings, you can use the “Help” function of your browser for more details.
Internet browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can modify your browser settings to block/delete cookies. Below are links to support documents on managing and deleting cookies from major web browsers:
- Chrome – Manage cookies in Chrome
- Safari: – Manage cookies in Safari
- Firefox – Manage cookies in Firefox
- Internet Explorer – Manage cookies in Internet Explorer
If you use a different web browser, please visit the official support documents of your browser for guidance.
12. Useful Links
If you want to learn more about cookies and their uses, we recommend visiting the resources below. You will find useful details on how cookies work and how they can be managed during online browsing:
- http://www.allaboutcookies.org
- http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro
These websites provide comprehensive information on cookies, including their functionalities, purposes, and how to manage them to enhance your online experience.
LAST UPDATED on July 18, 2024