Cookies policy This website uses cookies to provide visitors with an improved navigation experience and services adapted to everyone’s interest and needs. “Cookies” are used to facilitate access and delivery services for Internet users, such as certain settings personalisation (language, country, prices shown in national currency). “Cookies”, through the data they collect, help the site owners to improve their product so that it will be easier to access, increasing the efficiency of online advertising. We use cookies to make sure that you get the best user experience on MEDCITY’s website. If you continue without changing the settings, it will be assumed that you agree with all the cookies on this website.
What is a “cookie”? A cookie (“browser cookie” or “HTTP cookie”) is a small file consisting of letters and numbers that is stored on any terminal with Internet access (computer, mobile phone, tablet etc.) and is installed through the request emitted from a webserver to a browser (ex: Firefox, Chrome). Remember: “Cookies” do not include software programs, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information located on the user’s hard drive.
Cookies do not request personal information and do not personally identify internet users. A cookie consists of a name and content, has a fixed lifetime and can be accessed again by the webserver when a user returns on the website that is associated with the webserver.
Types of cookies:
- Session cookies – they are temporally stored in the browser history that memorizes them until the user leaves that website or closes the browser window.
- Permanent cookies – they are stored, depending on the preset lifetime, on the hard drive of the computer or device. Permanent cookies include the ones that are placed by other websites than the one the user is visiting at that moment – known as “third party cookies” – that can be used anonymously to memorise the user’s interests, so that relevant advertisements can be delivered to the interface.
What are the advantages of using cookies? A cookie contains information that links the user to certain websites. If a browser accesses that webserver again, this can read the information that is already stored and react accordingly. Cookies provide users with a pleasant navigation experience and support the efforts of many websites to offer comfortable services, such as: online confidentiality preferences, website language options, shopping carts or relevant advertising.
What is the lifetime of a cookie? The lifetime of a cookie may be different depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used exclusively for one session – they are no longer retained after the user leaves the site. Permanent cookies – are retained and reused whenever the user returns to that site but can be deleted at any time by the user.
What are cookies placed by third parties? Some content on certain sites may be placed on the accessed website by third parties through banners, boxes or links – and all these tools may contain cookies. They are called “third party cookies” because they are not placed by the owner of the website, and third-party providers are subject to the site’s current laws and privacy policies.
How cookies are used by this site Visiting this site may place cookies for:
- Site performance analysis;
- Visitors analysis;
- Advertising.
| COOKIE NAME |
TYPE |
PURPOSE |
EXPIRY |
| __cfduid |
Necessary |
Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
29 days |
| TawkWindowName |
Necessary |
Necessary for the functionality of the web site’s chat-box function. |
Until the session ends. |
| qtrans_front_language |
Preferences |
Determines the preferred language of the visitor. Allows the web site to set the preferred language upon the visitor’s re-entry. |
1 year |
| ss |
Preferences |
Necessary for the functionality of the web site’s chat-box function. |
Until the session ends. |
| _ga |
Statistics |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site. |
2 years |
| _gat |
Statistics |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
1 day |
| _gid |
Statistics |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site. |
1 day |
| TawkConnectionTime |
Statistics |
Allows the web site to recoqnise the visitor, in order to optimize the chat-box functionality. |
Until the session ends. |
| tawkUUID |
Statistics |
This cookie is used to collect information about how the visitor interacts with the live chat function on the web site. |
179 days |
| _fbp |
Marketing |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
3 months |
| fr |
Marketing |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
3 months |
| r/collect |
Marketing |
This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Until the session ends. |
| tr |
Marketing |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
Until the session ends. |
| __tawkuuid |
Unclassified |
This cookie is used to identify the visitor via their login information in order to provide online assistance, via a chat-box system – this system is provided by Tawt.to |
179 days |
| popul |
Unclassified |
unclassified |
Until the session ends. |
| twk_5979c27d5dfc8255d623f357 |
Unclassified |
unclassified |
Persistent |
What type of information is stored and accessed through cookies? Cookies keep 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. The cookie stores important information that enhances the Internet browsing experience (for example: language settings to access a site, keeping a user logged in on the webmail account, online banking security, keeping products in the shopping cart).
Why are cookies important for the Internet? Cookies are the core of the Internet’s efficient operation, helping to generate a friendly browsing experience, adapted to the preferences and interests of each user. Denying or disabling cookies can make some sites unusable. By denying or disabling cookies you will still receive online advertising, but it will not be adapted to your preferences and interests, revealed by your browsing behavior. Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require authentication of a user through an account):
- Content and services adapted to the user preferences – news, weather, sports, maps, public and governmental services, entertainment sites and travel services;
- Offers adapted to user interests – password retention, language preferences (for example: displaying search results in (the) Romanian language );
- Child protection filters for internet content (family mode options, safe navigation features);
- Limited ad distribution frequency – limiting the number of displays of an ad for a particular user on a site;
- More relevant advertising for the user;
- Measurement, optimization and analysis – such as confirming a certain level of traffic on a website, the type of content viewed and how a user reaches a website (for example: through search engines, directly or from other websites etc.). Websites run this analysis for front pages’ improvement in the users’ benefit.
