Cookie Policy

Last update: October 28th, 2022

This policy (“Cookie Policy“) aims to inform you about the use of cookies on the website available at the URL address www.unitedway.ro (“The Website” and/or “The Website United Way Romania“).

This Cookie Policy only governs the use of cookies on the Website and does not govern the use of the Website and/or the processing of your personal data by United Way Romania. Additional information on how United Way Romania processes your personal data is available by consulting the Information notice on the protection of personal data available at https://www.unitedway.ro/gdpr/ .

  1. What are cookies?

When we refer to cookies in this Cookie Policy, we mean both cookies and other automated means of data collection.

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive browser (or similar device) by the websites you visit. In general, many websites use cookies, as they are commonly used to make websites work more efficiently, more pleasantly, and to improve the functionality of the services provided on those websites. Cookies are also used to provide information to the respective website owners regarding the use of the website and services. These websites may also use other automated means.

The specific cookies and other automated means that United Way Romania uses on the Website are presented below.

  1. What cookies does United Way Romania use and for what purposes?

United Way Romania uses both its own cookies and third-party cookies. The qualification of a cookie as “own” or “of a third party” depends on the domain that places the cookie. Own cookies are those set by a website visited by the user at the time, in this case, the cookies placed by United Way Romania. A third-party cookie is set by an entity or domain other than the website you are visiting.

United Way Romania can use both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies allow a website operator to log your actions only during a browser session, from the time you open the Internet browser window until you close the browser window. These cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for the period specified in the cookie, as detailed below.

United Way Romania uses cookies for you to navigate the Website and use its functions; to monitor the performance of the Website and to enable us to improve the Website.

For these purposes, United Way Romania can use the following categories of cookies on the Website:

  • Necessary cookies that are used for the sole purpose of (i) making a transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network or (ii) enabling us to provide you with services as you have explicitly requested;
  • Functional cookies that allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or region) and provide enhanced, personalized features to enhance your web experience.
  • Performance cookies which monitor the performance of the Website;
  • Analytics cookies which collect information about how visitors use the Website, for example which pages are accessed by visitors most often and whether error messages are received from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you as a visitor to the Website. All the information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. These types of cookies are used only to improve the way the Website works;
  • Advertising cookies (advertising) which are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad, as well as to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed through advertising networks with our permission.

United Way Romania places the following cookies on the website:

OWN COOKIES
Cookie Category Duration Cookie Name Purpose
necessary session wp-wpml_current_language Allows the Website to be bilingual.
necessary 1 year CookieLawInfoConsent This cookie remembers the state (position) of the buttons in the cookie manager (the panel that appears) as the user organized them when they last made a selection, saving the choice made for subsequent visits by that user. It only works in coordination with the main cookie.
necessary 1 year cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary This cookie is used to record the user’s consent for cookies in the “necessary” category.
necessary 1 year cookielawinfo-checkbox-others This cookie is used to store the user’s consent for cookies in the “necessary” category.
necessary 1 year cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional  This cookie is used to record the user’s consent for cookies in the “functional” category.
necessary 1 year cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance This cookie is used to record the user’s consent for cookies in the “performance” category.
necessary 1 year cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics This cookie is used to store the user’s consent for cookies in the “analytics” category.
necessary

1 year

 

cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement This cookie is used to record the user’s consent for cookies in the “advertising” category.
necessary 2 hours laravel_session Laravel uses laravel_session to identify a session instance for a user.  This can be changed.
necessary 2 hours XSRF-TOKEN This cookie is set by Wix and is used for security purposes.

The third party cookies used on the Website are listed below. United Way Romania uses these cookies for the stated purposes. However, United Way Romania is not responsible for the processing of your data by this third party for its own purposes. For more information about processing by these third parties for their own purposes, please see the respective policies of these third parties.

 THIRD PARTIES COOKIES & AUTOMATED MEANS
Cookie Category   Duration Cookie Name Purpose
advertisement session YSC The YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
advertisement 5 months 27 days VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user receives the new or old player interface.
advertisement never yt-remote-device-id YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using the embedded YouTube video.
advertisement never yt-remote-connected-devices YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using the embedded YouTube video.
advertisement never yt.innertube::requests This cookie, set by YouTube, records a unique ID to store data about which YouTube videos the user has viewed.
advertisement never yt.innertube::nextId This cookie, set by YouTube, records a unique ID to store data about which YouTube videos the user has viewed.
advertisement 15 minutes test_cookie Test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser accepts cookies.
analytics 2 years _ga The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of website usage for the website analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
analytics 1 day _gid Installed by Google Analytics, the _gid cookie stores information about how visitors use a website, while creating a website performance analysis report. Some of the data that is collected includes the number of visitors, their source and the pages they visit anonymously.
analytics 1 minute _gat_gtag_UA_178510641_1 Set by Google to distinguish users.
analytics session _gat_gtag_UA_3021550_42 Set by Google to distinguish users.
analytics 2 years CONSENT YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube videos and records anonymous statistical data.
analytics 3 months _gcl_au Provided by Google Tag Manager to experience the advertising effectiveness of websites using their services.
performance 1 minute _gat This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrict the request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites.
  1. What (personal) data is collected through cookies and other automated means?

United Way Romania records the following (personal) data as a result of visiting our websites:

  • IP address,
  • your operating system,
  • the external website that refers you to the Website,
  • the pages you have visited on the Website,
  • date and time of each page visited.

Additional information on how United Way Romania processes your personal data is available by consulting the Information notice on the protection of personal data available at https://www.unitedway.ro/gdpr/

  1. Your choice of cookies

Although we ask for your consent to the use of certain types of cookies through our Cookie Banner, you can change the cookie settings in your Internet browsers at any time. These settings can be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your internet browser. To understand these settings, the links below may be helpful. Otherwise, you should use the “Help” option in your browser for more details.

  1. Amendments

United Way Romania reserves the right to modify the Cookie Policy from time to time. This Cookie Policy was last modified and revised on October 28, 2022.

  1. Contact

United Way Romania is responsible for your personal data processed through these cookies and other automated means. You can contact us at:office@unitedway.ro .