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Romanian-American University Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how the Romanian-American University (RAU) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website and related services to collect and store information about your device and how you use our website.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, mobile phone, tablet) by a web server when you access a website. Cookies are widely used to ensure the efficient operation of websites and to provide information to the site owners. Cookies can be classified into two main categories:

  1. Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the website.
  2. Persistent Cookies: These remain in your browser’s cookie file for a longer period (the duration depends on the specific cookie’s lifetime).

Why We Use Cookies

Cookies help us enhance your experience on our website by:

  • Personalizing the content you see on our website.
  • Retaining your preferences (e.g., language settings).
  • Understanding how you use our website to improve its functionality and performance.
  • Enabling multimedia applications and other features for a better browsing experience.

Types of Cookies We Use

  1. Performance Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. For example, they may collect information about which pages you visit most often and whether you receive error messages from web pages.
  2. Functional Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
  3. Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They also limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

How We Manage Cookies

When using our websites and applications, we provide specific messages or obtain your consent for various procedures related to cookies. For example, we specifically ask for consent to use your location information or to send push notifications. This consent is obtained through applications, websites, or standard permissions on your device.

In many cases, your web browser or device provides additional tools that allow you to control when and what information is collected. For example, your mobile device or browser may offer tools to manage cookies or disclose your location. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the tools available on your devices.

How You Can Control Cookies

Disabling and refusing to accept cookies may make certain websites impractical or very difficult to visit and use. It is possible to set your browser to not accept cookies or to accept cookies only from specific websites. However, for example, if a visitor is not registered using cookies, they will not be able to leave comments.

In addition, under the provisions of paragraph 5^1 of Article 4 of Law 506 of November 17, 2004, regarding the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, consent regarding the storage of information (such as cookies) and/or the use of information of this type stored on a user’s terminal equipment can be given by using the settings of the web browser or other similar technologies. Thus, according to the mentioned law, in Romania, it is considered that the user can express consent through the settings of the applications (browsers) used for web browsing, without needing to use cookie customization systems, which may or may not exist on a website.

All modern browsers offer the ability to change cookie settings or delete cookies resulting from browsing a website. You can therefore give or refuse consent for the use of cookies by our website (or any other website) using the settings of web browsing applications.

These settings are generally found in the Options/Settings menu or the Preferences/Favorites menu of the browser.

To better understand these settings, the following links may be useful:

Romanian-American University

The general policies of the Romanian-American University can be found at this dedicated link: https://privacy.rau.ro/

This policy was last modified in September 2024.