Cookies

This website uses its own cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide functionality needed by users and to analyze site traffic. 

This information is intended to show you how cookies work on this site and how you can set these cookies.

While using this site, the user may accept the use of cookies that are not strictly necessary for its operation. The user has at any time the possibility to prevent the placement of cookies when accessing the pages by selecting the desired options in the consent solution provided, and to disable them by selecting the appropriate option in the browser. You should be aware that if a browser has blocked the use of cookies, some of the site's services and functionalities may no longer be available.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text file that websites place on your device and that is stored on your device, such as your personal computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc. These files are used to store information about users' visits, such as language preference cookies, cookies used to detect repeatedly failed attempts to log in to a site and other options, while helping to set parameters for future visits and to make the site more useful by customising its content. Cookies play a very important role in improving the user experience of this site.

How do we use cookies?

The use of cookies is mainly intended for the following:

• Ensure better functioning of the website;
• Correct display of content;
• Customize the interface, ensure the security of the site against fraud or illicit use;
• Create statistics to know users' reactions to the website content;
• Analytics - helps us understand how users interact with our site;
• Measuring, optimising and tailoring analytics features - such as confirming a certain level of traffic to a website, what type of content is being viewed and how a user gets to a website (e.g. via search engines, directly, from other websites, etc.). Websites perform these analytics on usage to improve their services for the benefit of users.

Cookies ensure users have a pleasant browsing experience and support our efforts to provide more tailored services to users. They are also used in the preparation of anonymous statistics that help us to understand how a user benefits from our web pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content without allowing the personal identification of the user.

Types of cookies used

This website uses both session and persistent cookies. Session cookies only store data for as long as the user has the browser open, while permanent cookies are stored on the user's device so that they can be accessed and used in more than one session.

Depending on the purpose and the data obtained through cookies, we may use:

Strictly necessary or functional cookies

These cookies are necessary for the functioning of our website. They allow you to use the main features of our site (e.g. viewing page content, registering your preference for displaying results) and usually occur as a result of an express user request (e.g. filling in a form, choosing a language). Without these cookies, you will not be able to use our site normally. These are cookies placed by EL Pharma, or on our behalf by third parties and relate solely to the operation of our site.

Cookies	Supplier	Purpose	Duration
Cookie_consent_level	elpharma.ro	Determines whether the user has accepted the use of cookies via the pop-up for each cookie category	2 months
PHPSESSID	elpharma.ro	Keeps user status on multiple pages	Session
Cookie_consent_user_accepted	elpharma.ro	Determines whether or not the user has accepted the cookie categories
Cookie_consent_user_token	elpharma.ro	Unique user token

Statistical analysis/ performance cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are less popular and to see how visitors move around the site. The information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

If you do not allow these cookies to be placed, we will not know when you have visited our site. You will find below the analytics cookies used:

How cookies are managed on your browser

Cookies are only installed with your prior consent. For this reason, when you access our website for the first time a special banner is displayed informing you that the website uses cookies and giving you the opportunity to opt-in to the categories of cookies that may be installed on the device used to browse our website (with the exception of necessary cookies, which are installed automatically).

Once you have opted in, the cookie banner will disappear. You do not need to consent to the use of cookies each time you access the site. The consent given on first access will be retained and will not be displayed on future accesses to the site.

You have the possibility to refuse or limit the use of these cookies and to change your cookie preferences at any time by going to the "I want to change my cookie settings" section.

Each time our website introduces a new cookie managed either by our company or by a third party, that cookie will be placed in the cookie policy, in one of the tables above, and if its placement requires your consent, you will be asked for your consent.

The user has the possibility to allow, block or delete cookies installed on his/her system by changing the settings of the browser options installed on his/her device:

To change cookie settings on Google Chrome:

• Click on the menu in the toolbar.
• Select Settings.
• Click Show advanced settings.
• In the privacy section click on content settings.
• Under Cookies there are a number of options for settings.
• Learn more about Google Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=ro

To change cookie settings on Mozilla Firefox:

• At the top of the window click on the Firefox button.
• Select your options.
• Select the privacy pane.
• In the Firefox option select use custom settings for history and you will be able to choose from different options.
• More information about Mozilla Firefox can be found at: https://support.mozilla.org/ro/kb/cookie-urile

To change cookie settings on Microsoft Edge:

• At the top of the Microsoft Edge window, click the Tools menu.
• Select Settings, then Security and then Cookies and choose the option about placing cookies (from the three available).

The IAB has built the following website to provide specific information on privacy issues related to Internet advertising: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro/ .

Full information on how organisations use cookies is available at: www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you have any doubts or questions about the Cookie Policy, please write to dataprotection@elpharma.ro.  

Kindly note that this Privacy Notice is available on our website in Romanian and in English version. In case of contradiction between the two versions, the Romanian one prevails.

Date of last modification: 27.05.2024