The requested data

According to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 for the processing of personal data and regarding the free circulation of this data, www.sustainabilitylens.com has the obligation to administer safely and only for the specified purposes, the personal data you provide us.

Why do we need data?

We need your personal data to be able to provide you with the Services, with the following purposes:

• To process the order and supply the desired products and services;
• To evaluate the products and services we provide;
• To give you access to the site’s functionalities as a registered user;
• For website administration;
• To analyze and improve the website, the commercial offer and the advertising we carry out;
• To offer you the opportunity to participate in contests, promotions, news;
• To send you non-commercial or administrative messages (regarding changes to the site, user account, etc.);
• To send you offers, promotions, advertising and marketing messages regarding the activity of www.sustainabilitylens.com, if you have expressed your agreement in this regard.

What will we do with the data?

Your personal data are processed at the company headquarters. The hosting and storage of your data takes place on the territory of Romania. We may provide your personal data to other companies with which we are in partnership, but only on the basis of a confidentiality commitment from them and only for the purposes mentioned in this document. The information requested in the case of online payments falls under the terms of use of payment processors, and www.sustainabilitylens.com will not request or store any details related to your card. We will disclose information if this is justified in order to protect us against fraud, defend our rights or property. We may also need to disclose your information to comply with our legal obligation to respond to legal requests from the authorities. Your personal data will be communicated only when we consider, in good faith, that we have the obligation to do so in accordance with the law.

How long we keep the data

We will store your information as long as we are required by law. If there is no legal requirement, we will store them only as long as necessary to be able to offer you our services. Based on a request sent to www.sustainabilitylens.com by email to officebucharest@sustainabilitylens.com or using the options available in the user account on the website, you can ask us to cancel the user account and delete or anonymize the data. We will keep any personal data that we hold for marketing purposes until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information.

What are your rights

If you consider that any of your personal data that we hold is incorrect or incomplete, you have the possibility to request the consultation, rectification or deletion of this information. You can contact us in this regard by email at officebucharest@sustainabilitylens.com. If you want to complain about the way we managed your data, please contact us by email. We will analyze your complaint and work with you to resolve the issue.

COOKIES POLICY

By browsing the www.sustainabilitylens.com website, you will express your agreement regarding the use of data stored by cookies, this being an agreement within the meaning of article 4 (51) of Law no. 506/2004 regarding the processing of personal data and the protection of private life in the electronic communications sector.

“Internet Cookie” (term also known as “browser cookie” or “HTTP cookie” or simply “cookie”) is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other a user’s equipment from which the Internet is accessed. Cookies are installed when browsing the site is accepted, being a link between the browser user and the website.

Users can configure their browser to reject cookies. You can also set your browser to block cookies or display a warning notification before a cookie is stored on your computer. Deactivating and refusing to receive cookies can make certain sections/pages impractical or difficult to visit.

Google analytics

This website uses Google analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the site analyze how the pages are used. The information generated by cookies about the use of the site will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. By using IP anonymization, Google will truncate the IP address for the member states of the European Union, as well as for other parties to the agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to and storage in the USA. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address can be sent and shortened by the Google servers in the USA.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for website operators, as well as to provide additional services for the operator of this website. site regarding the use of the site and the Internet. For this purpose, Google uses pseudonyms. the IP address sent by your browser through Google analytics will not be associated with other data held by Google.

Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager is a solution operated by Google Inc., which allows the management of the tags used by the site for marketing purposes, using an interface. The Google Tag Manager tool itself (through which the tags are implemented) is a domain that does not use cookies and does not record personal data. The tool can activate certain tags, which in their own right can record data under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager will not have access to this information. If data logging has been disabled at the cookie domain or level, this setting will remain in effect for all tracking tags implemented through Google Tag Manager.

Data security

There are various technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction, access by unauthorized persons, accidentally and/or intentionally.

If you have questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us at the email addresses below.

Upon request, you will be informed in writing and in accordance with the legislation in force, regarding the personal data we collect through our web pages.

Links to other web pages

Although our web page contains links to other web pages, we are not responsible for the information protection strategies or the content of other web pages.

Notice of changes

Any change regarding data protection will be posted on this page as well as in other locations that we consider appropriate.

When you choose to access our website, as well as certain services, applications, various online tools or messages, you should know that they may use their own or third-party cookies, for a more intense experience, fast and at the same time safer for browsing for you or as a facility for advertising providers. Since many users associate cookies with viruses or disguised advertising, we should know what they are and what they are used for.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of information that appears on the screen in the form of a short text or message placed on the Internet user’s hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is usually the very computer from which a certain website operates. The information contained in the cookie is programmed by this server and is used, later, whenever the user uses the site or sites managed by it. Put simply, a cookie is like an access card, with the user’s identification data, which informs the server or the site managed by it every time you return to a certain page.

What does a cookie look like and when did cookies appear?

The typical form by which we recognize a cookie is as an address to a mail service center, most often with the ending “.txt”, the specific extension of text files. As a brief history, we can say that the term cookie for the Internet was developed about ten years ago, by the American company Netscape Communications. The word “cookie” derives from the phrase “magic cookie”, a term from programming languages that describes a piece of information distributed between various software sections. The choice of the word “cookie” for this kind of tool seems to come from the American tradition of sharing cookies and sweets with visitors in special moments.

What is the purpose of cookies?

In concrete terms, cookies enable a faster interaction between users and different sites. Without these apparently trivial tools, it would be very difficult for a certain site to allow a user to freely make purchases from its pages or to remember his preferences and registration details on his next visit. Therefore, the use of cookies in this case only saves users’ time and money, making the browsing experience more efficient and pleasant. Websites often use cookies to collect demographic data about their users. Also, cookies allow websites to have evidence as close as possible to reality on the profile and habits of consumers, in order to make product offers as targeted as possible for them. In this way, on the user’s navigation page, the advertising messages that may directly interest them will appear, targeted according to the previously collected information.

How many types of cookies are there?

It should be known that not all cookies are the same. Thus, we have session or temporary cookies, permanent cookies and flash cookies.

Session cookies

Cookies that are stored in the memory of the computer or Internet access device only during a browsing session on a certain page or site, are automatically deleted from the computer when the browser is closed. Usually, these cookies store an identity of each session, not personally identifiable by the user, allowing him to navigate from one page to another without having to log in permanently.

Permanent cookies

These are the cookies stored on the user’s computer and which are not deactivated when the browser used is closed. Thus, permanent cookies can retain the user’s preferences already registered for a certain site, allowing them to be used in subsequent browsing sessions. Also, they can be used to identify users so that websites can analyze user preferences on their pages in order to welcome them more easily. They can provide at any time information on the number of users, the average time spent on a certain page, being of real help in establishing the real overall performance of a site. This type of cookies are configured in such a way that they can track the preferences of the users over long periods of time.

Flash cookies

If you have the Adobe Flash program installed on your computer (and most devices have it), you may also have small files with Flash content stored, such as videos. This kind of files are also known as Local Shared Objects (LSOs) or Flash cookies. They can be used for the same purpose as regular cookies, also called HTTP cookies. At the same time, Flash cookies can make backup copies of the data retained by a regular cookie. Thus, when you delete the cookies from the browser settings, the Flash ones will not be affected. Thus, a site that used this type of cookie at a given time will recognize you on your next visit if your data has been stored by this file. However, you can control the action of Flash cookies and the official website of the adobe company offers tools to control, detect and delete them from your computer.

In summary, the purposes for which cookies can be used are the following:

• to determine the performance of a site;
• to analyze the number of visitors;
• for geotargeting information;
• for registration;
• for advertising and for service providers in this field.

Are cookies dangerous?

Likened most of the time to viruses, cookies are just small text files. These are not even computer programs and cannot be perceived as programming codes. Also, cookies are not used to spread viruses and modern versions of browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape allow users to set their own values of the number of cookies accepted on a computer. Although they are stored on the hard disk drive, cookies cannot access its content. Therefore, you don’t have to worry that a cookie can read the data saved on your hard disk or transmit the username and password from the email box to someone. They only store and forward the data they record when accessing a well-established site.

Also, a server cannot set a cookie to act on a different domain than those stated above. Despite this fact, users may find on their computer cookies from websites they have never visited. Usually, they are sent by companies that sell advertising on the Internet to other sites. Therefore, it is not excluded that information regarding the behavior of surfers is transmitted to them by the visited sites, sometimes even without the consent of the users. And this became the main reason why users ended up rejecting cookies.

How do I get rid of cookies?

Usually, we can set our Internet browser to accept any type of cookies or to accept cookies from certain sites. On the other hand, this can create certain disadvantages, because if you are not registered on a certain site, you will not be able to post comments, for example. It should be known, however, that all modern versions of Internet browsers have settings for cookies. You can find them in the “Options” or “Preferences” section of the browser menu. To understand these settings, you can also access the “Help” option of each browser or you can access some links and useful information for “Cookie settings” from Internet Explorer versions 5,6,7,8, 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari or iOS.

If you are concerned about the cookies generated by the third-party sites of the advertising platforms, you can disable them by directly using the “Your Online Choices” option related to each site.

For additional information, please contact us at officebucharest@sustainabilitylens.com.