Cookies

The website www.plussizeart.com uses cookies.

The following information is intended to inform the user of more details about the placement, use and management of cookies used by the website www.plussizeart.com .

If you need more information and it is not found below, you can contact us at the email address plussizeromania@gmail.com .

Please read the following information carefully:

This website can use its own cookies as well as those from third parties, in order to provide visitors with the best browsing experience and services adapted to everyone's needs and interests.

Because we respect your right to privacy, you can opt to block certain types of cookies from this site.

Cookies play an important role in facilitating the access and delivery of multiple services that the user enjoys on the Internet, such as:

• Customizing certain settings such as: the language in which a website is viewed, the currency in which certain prices or tariffs are expressed, keeping options for various products (measurements, other details, etc.) in the shopping cart (and saving these options), saving certain preferences in for future reuse.
• Cookies provide site owners with valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, so that they can make them even more efficient and more accessible.
• They allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a certain site to create a more valuable, useful and pleasant browsing experience.
• Improve the effectiveness of online advertising.

What is a Cookie?

A Cookie is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other equipment of a user from which the Internet is accessed.

The cookie is installed by a request issued by a web server to a browser (eg: Chrome, Firefox) and is completely "passive" (it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information on the user's hard drive ).

A cookie consists of 2 parts: the name and the content or value of the cookie. Moreover, the duration of existence 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 require personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify Internet users.

There are 2 large categories of cookies:

• Session cookies - these are temporarily stored in the cookie folder of the web browser so that it remembers them until the user closes the browser window or logs out of the respective website.
• Persistent Cookies - These are stored on the hard drive of a computer or equipment (and generally depends on the lifetime of the cookie). Persistent cookies also 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.

What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information that connects 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 provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to offer comfortable services to users: eg - online privacy preferences, website language options, shopping baskets or relevant advertising.

What is the lifetime of a cookie?

Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifetime 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 ( permanent cookies). However, cookies can be deleted by a user at any time through the browser settings.

What are cookies placed by third parties?

Certain sections of content on some sites may be provided through third parties/providers (eg: a video, an advertisement, a chat application, etc.). These third parties can also place cookies through the website and they are called "third party cookies" because they are not placed by the owner of the respective website. Third-party providers must also comply with the law in force and the privacy policies of the website owner.

How cookies are used by this site

Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support our efforts to provide comfortable services to users through functionalities such as online privacy preferences, the 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 web pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content, excluding the user's personal identification.

A visit to this website 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 the saving of preferences regarding the other types of cookies used, as well as the access to the basic functionalities of this site.

They retain the user's preferences on this site, so that there is no need to set them each time the site is visited.

Registration cookies are generated when a user registers on this site, with the aim of informing us later if he is registered or not. Our servers use these cookies to show us the account you are registered with and to give you an easier experience interacting with the site.

Other cookies that we place to allow you to use the site optimally are the cookies corresponding to the shopping basket and Favorites lists (with the purpose of saving the information related to the products you have added to the basket or Favorites), location cookies (used to determine your location according to IP, with the aim of pre-filling certain fields necessary for registration or placing orders), session cookies generated when accessing and deleted automatically when closing the browser (required for the operation of the HTTP protocol, completing certain forms, interacting with certain elements of the site, etc.), cookies that recognize the type of terminal used - desktop or mobile, cookies of chat applications that allow real-time discussions with the customer relations service.

Performance cookies

They include both cookies from traffic analysis services, as well as cookies placed by certain third-party services that offer complementary functionalities to the site.

Traffic analysis cookies allow the aggregate measurement of site traffic, the identification of traffic sources, provide information about the most visited or least accessed pages, as well as how users interact with the site. The listed information is collected in aggregate and by default completely anonymous. These cookies may come from third parties such as Web Analytics services (Ex: Google Analytics).

Social media and advertising cookies

They can be placed through the website by the social media or advertising services we use.

This type of cookies can be used by these services to determine a certain profile of visitors and to show you relevant advertising messages on other sites you visit.

They can come from third parties such as advertising services (Ex: AdSense, AdWords), social media platforms (Ex: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok Twitter), etc.

Due to the way of use, this site cannot access these cookies from third parties, just as third parties cannot access the cookies owned by this site. For example, when you share an article using the social network 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 web server recognizes your browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the Internet browsing experience (eg: keeping a user logged in to his user account; keeping products in the shopping cart; keeping products in the list of Favorites).

Why are cookies important to the Internet?

Cookies represent the central point of the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to generate a friendly browsing experience adapted to the preferences and interests of each user. Rejecting or disabling cookies can make it difficult to use a website.

Rejecting or deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising - but only that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior.

Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require the authentication of a user through an account):

• Content and services adapted to the user's preferences - categories of news, weather, sports, maps, public and government services, entertainment sites and travel services.
• Offers adapted to users' interests - password retention, language preferences (Ex: displaying search results in Romanian).
• Retention of child protection filters regarding Internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
• Limiting the frequency of advertising - limiting the number of times an advertisement is displayed for 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 arrives at a website (eg through search engines, directly, from other websites etc). The websites carry out these analyzes of their use in order to improve the sites for the benefit of the users.

Security and privacy issues

Cookies use plain text formats. They are not made up of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed or auto-run. Consequently, they cannot be duplicated or replicated on other networks to run or replicate again. Cookies can still be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about the preferences and browsing history of users, 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 constantly mark cookies to be deleted during anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures.

In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period and automatic deletion after the user has visited a certain site. Other security aspects related to cookies

Since identity protection is very valuable and represents the right of every internet user, it is advisable to know what possible problems cookies can create. Because through them, information is constantly transmitted in both directions between the browser and the website, if an attacker or unauthorized person intervenes during data transmission, 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 (ex: an unsecured WiFi network).

Other cookie-based attacks involve missetting cookies on servers. If a website does not require the browser to use only encrypted channels, attackers can use this vulnerability to trick browsers into sending information through unsecured channels. The attackers then use the information to gain unauthorized access to certain websites. It is very important to be careful in choosing the most suitable method of personal information protection.

Tips for safe and responsible browsing, based on cookies

Due to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, they are almost unavoidable. Deactivating 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 that you do not sleep without worries, but with the help of cookies:

• Customize your browser settings regarding cookies to reflect a comfortable level of cookie security for you.
• If you don't mind cookies and you are the only person using the computer, you can set long expiration dates for storing browsing history and personal access data.
• If you share access to your computer, you may consider setting your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close your browser. This is an option to access the sites that place cookies and to delete any visit information at the end of the browsing session.
• Install your antispyware applications and update them constantly.

Many of the spyware detection and prevention applications include detection of attacks on websites. Thus, it prevents the browser from accessing websites that could exploit the vulnerabilities of the browser or download dangerous software. Make sure your browser is always updated. Many of the attacks based on cookies are carried out by exploiting the weak points of the old versions of the browsers.

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 so that you can surf the Internet with confidence.

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 "help" option of the browser for more details.

Useful Links

If you want to find out more information about cookies and what they are used for, we recommend the following links:

• All About Cookies
• http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro/