LEGAL

Privacy policy

This document explains what personal data we process through this site, on what basis, how long we keep it, and what rights you have. It applies to the digital-art.ro website only.

Last updated: 27 September 2026

Who the controller is

Digital Dreams SRL (digitalART), RO 17947239, J13/2944/2005, registered office at Str. Baba Novac nr. 175, Constanța, Romania. Office: Prelungirea Nicolae Grindeanu, Constanța.

For any question about your data, write to us at office@digital-art.ro or call +40722810870. We are under no legal obligation to appoint a data protection officer (DPO), so requests are handled by us directly.

What data we process, and why

1. The contact and quote forms

When you fill in a form, you send us your name, your email address, possibly your phone number, your company name and a description of the project. We use them to reply to you and to prepare the quote.

Legal basis: steps taken prior to entering into a contract, at your request — art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
How it reaches us: the message is sent by secure email to office@digital-art.ro. The site has no database and does not store form submissions on the server.
How long we keep it: messages stay in our mailbox. We delete them on request, and correspondence that goes no further is cleared out periodically.

2. Newsletter subscription

If you subscribe, we process your email address in order to send you new articles.

Legal basis: your consent — art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
How long we keep it: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.

3. Domain availability checks

The domain name you enter is sent to the competent registry (RoTLD for .ro, EURid for .eu, the RDAP services for .com, .net, .org and .info). We do not ask you for personal data for this check.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in offering a working tool and protecting it from abuse — art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
What we retain: to limit the number of searches we temporarily keep a cryptographic form (a hash) of the IP address, for a maximum of 5 minutes. The registry’s response is cached for 15 minutes so we do not query it unnecessarily.

4. Audience statistics (Google Analytics 4)

We measure how the site is used with Google Analytics 4, in Consent Mode v2. Before you make your choice, no cookie is written. If you accept, the _ga and _ga_BSBQD1CFC5 cookies are written. If you decline, Google receives only anonymous signals, with no cookies and no identifiers.

Legal basis: your consent — art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and art. 4(5) of Romanian Law no. 506/2004.
How long we keep it: the cookies expire after 400 days; the Analytics reports are retained for 14 months.
The full list of cookies is in the cookie policy.

5. Ad measurement (Meta Pixel)

If you accept cookies, we load the Meta Pixel to measure our Facebook and Instagram ads and to be able to show them to people who have already visited the site. The _fbp cookie is written and Meta receives the page viewed and the fact that you sent a form or tapped the phone/WhatsApp link — no name, email or phone number. If you decline, nothing is loaded from Meta.

Legal basis: your consent — art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and art. 4(5) of Romanian Law no. 506/2004.
How long we keep it: the _fbp cookie expires after 90 days.

6. Server logs

The hosting provider automatically records the IP address, the date, the page requested and the browser type, for the operation and security of the service. These are technical logs; we do not use them for profiling.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and working — art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Who we pass data to

We do not sell or rent personal data. We pass it only to the processors that make the service possible:

the hosting and email provider that operates this site’s server;
Google Ireland Limited, for Google Analytics, and only if you have accepted;
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, for the Meta Pixel, and only if you have accepted;
the domain registries, for the availability check you ask for.

Transfers to Google may involve the United States. They take place under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

How long we keep data

Each category has its own period, set out above. As a principle, we keep data only for as long as we need it for the stated purpose or for as long as the law requires (accounting documents relating to a project, for instance).

Your rights

Under art. 15–22 GDPR you have the right:

of access to your data and to a copy of it;
to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
to erasure (the "right to be forgotten");
to restriction of processing;
to data portability;
to object to processing based on legitimate interest;
to withdraw your consent at any time, without this affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.

Send your request to office@digital-art.ro. We reply within one month of receiving it at the latest.

The right to lodge a complaint

If your rights are infringed, you can contact the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), B-dul G-ral. Gheorghe Magheru 28–30, sector 1, Bucharest, anspdcp@dataprotection.ro, dataprotection.ro(opens in a new tab). You also have the right to go to court.

Children

The site is addressed to companies and professionals. We do not knowingly collect data from people under 16. If you find that a child has sent us data, write to us and we will delete it.

Automated decisions

We do not take automated decisions with legal effect on you, and we do not carry out profiling.

Changes

If we change this policy, we publish the new version on this page. For significant changes we also tell you through the consent banner.

The 2017 text, kept in full

The page published on the previous site explained the placement of cookies. We keep it unchanged, as a record. The information that applies now is the text above and the cookie policy.

This is a translation provided for convenience. The Romanian version at digital-art.ro/politica-de-confidentialitate/ is the authoritative text and is the one that applies.

The website www.digital-art.ro uses cookies. The information below is intended to tell users more about the placement, use and management of the cookies used by www.digital-art.ro. It also includes a few useful links on the subject. If you need more information and cannot find it below, you can contact us at: office@digital-art.ro

Please read the following carefully:

This website may use both its own cookies and cookies from third parties, in order to give visitors a much better browsing experience and services suited to each person’s needs and interests.

In what we call “web 2.0”, cookies play an important part in making the many services a user enjoys on the internet accessible and deliverable, such as:

Personalising certain settings, such as: the language a site is viewed in, the currency certain prices or rates are expressed in, retaining choices for various products (sizes, other details and so on) in the shopping basket and remembering those choices — which gives the basket its flexibility, letting earlier preferences be reached again through the “forward” and “back” buttons.
Cookies give site owners valuable feedback on how their sites are being used, so that they can make them more efficient and more accessible for users.
They allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be embedded in a given site, in order to create a browsing experience that is more valuable, more useful and more enjoyable.
They improve the effectiveness of online advertising.

What is a cookie?

An “internet cookie” (also known as a “browser cookie”, an “HTTP cookie” or simply a “cookie”) is a small file made up of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other equipment a user accesses the internet from.

The cookie is installed at the request of a web server to a browser (Internet Explorer or Chrome, for instance) and is entirely “passive”: it contains no software, viruses or spyware, and it cannot access the information on the user’s hard drive.

A cookie has two parts: its name and its content, or value. Beyond that, a cookie’s lifespan is fixed; technically, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that server.

Cookies in themselves do not require personal information in order to be used and, in most cases, they do not personally identify internet users.

There are two broad categories of cookie:

Session cookies — these are stored temporarily in the web browser’s cookie folder so that the browser remembers them until the user leaves that site or closes the browser window (for instance, when logging in and out of a webmail account or a social network).
Persistent cookies — these are stored on a computer’s or a device’s hard drive, and generally depend on the lifespan set for the cookie. Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at that moment — known as third-party cookies — which can be used anonymously to remember a user’s interests, so that the advertising delivered is as relevant as possible.

What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information that connects a web browser (the user) with a particular web server (the website). If a browser reaches that web server again, the server can read the information already stored and react accordingly. Cookies give users a pleasant browsing experience and support many websites’ efforts to offer their users convenient services: online privacy preferences, site language options, shopping baskets, or relevant advertising.

How long does a cookie live?

Cookies are administered by web servers. A cookie’s lifespan can vary significantly, depending on the purpose it was placed for. Some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookies) and are no longer retained once the user has left the website; others are retained and reused every time the user returns to that website (persistent cookies). Even so, cookies can be deleted by a user at any moment through their browser settings.

What are third-party cookies?

Certain sections of content on some sites may be supplied by third parties or suppliers (a news box, a video or an advertisement, for instance). Those third parties may also place cookies through the site, and these are called third-party cookies because they are not placed by the owner of the website in question. Third-party suppliers must also comply with the law in force and with the site owner’s privacy policies.

How this site uses cookies

A visit to this site may place cookies for the purposes of:

Site performance cookies
Visitor analytics cookies
Geotargeting cookies
Registration cookies
Session cookies
Advertising cookies
Advertising suppliers’ cookies

Certain cookies may come from third parties.

Performance cookies

This type of cookie retains a user’s preferences on this site, so that they do not have to be set again on every visit (for example: the list of recently viewed products, the user’s currency preferences, the type of device used — desktop or mobile — the number of products added to the basket, and so on).

Geotargeting cookies

These cookies are used to establish which country you are visiting from. They are entirely anonymous and are used only to target content (for example, storing the country code following automatic detection by IP address).

Registration cookies

These cookies store the specific data of a particular user (user code, email address, preferences for retaining login details). When you register on this site, we generate a cookie that tells us whether or not you are registered. Our servers use these cookies to show us the account you are registered with and to display the information associated with that account.

Session cookies

A session cookie is generated automatically when the site is accessed and is used for managing web applications (the HTTP protocol, filling in certain forms, interacting with certain elements of the site, and so on). This cookie is deleted automatically when the browser is closed.

Other third-party cookies

On some pages, third parties may set their own anonymous cookies, in order to track the success of an application or to customise it. These cookies may come from third parties such as web analytics services (Google Analytics, for instance), advertising (AdSense), social media platforms (Facebook), live chat customer advice applications and so on.

Because of the way they work, this site cannot access those cookies, just as third parties cannot access the cookies held by this site. For instance, when you share an article using the social network button on this site, that social network will record your activity.

What kind of information is stored and accessed through cookies?

Cookies keep information in a small text file that allows a website to recognise a browser. The web server will recognise the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted. The cookie stores important information that improves the browsing experience (for example: the language settings a site is to be accessed in; keeping a user logged in to a webmail account; online banking security; keeping products in a shopping basket).

Why are cookies important to the internet?

Cookies are central to the internet working efficiently, helping to generate a browsing experience that is friendly and adapted to each user’s preferences and interests. Refusing or disabling cookies can make some sites impossible to use.

Refusing or disabling cookies does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising — only that it will no longer be able to take account of your preferences and interests as shown by your browsing behaviour.

Examples of important uses of cookies that do not require a user to be authenticated through an account:

Content and services adapted to a user’s preferences — news categories, weather, sport, maps, public and government services, entertainment sites and travel services.
Offers adapted to users’ interests — remembering passwords, language preferences (for instance, showing search results in Romanian).
Retaining child protection filters for internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
Limiting how often an advertisement is shown — capping the number of times a given user sees an advertisement on a site.
Delivering advertising that is more relevant to the user.
Measurement, optimisation and analytics features — such as confirming a certain level of traffic to a website, what type of content is being viewed, and how a user arrives at a website (through search engines, directly, from other websites and so on). Websites carry out these analyses of their own use in order to improve the sites for the benefit of their users.

Security and privacy concerns

Cookies are NOT viruses. They use plain text formats. They are not made up of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed and cannot run themselves. As a result, they cannot duplicate or replicate themselves across other networks in order to run or replicate again. Since they cannot perform those functions, they cannot be considered viruses. Cookies can nonetheless be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about users’ preferences and browsing history, both on a given site and across several others, cookies can be used as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this and constantly flag cookies for deletion during anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning and removal procedures.

Browsers generally have built-in privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity periods, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a particular site.

Other security matters relating to cookies

Because protecting one’s identity is very valuable and is the right of every internet user, it is worth knowing what problems cookies can potentially create. Since information is constantly transmitted in both directions between the browser and the website through them, if an attacker or unauthorised person intervenes in the course of that transmission, the information contained in the cookie can be intercepted. Although very rare, this can happen if the browser connects to the server over an unencrypted network (an unsecured WiFi network, for instance).

Other cookie-based attacks involve incorrect cookie settings on servers. If a website does not require the browser to use only encrypted channels, attackers can use that vulnerability to trick browsers into sending information over unsecured channels. The attackers then use that information to gain unauthorised access to certain sites. It is very important to be careful in choosing the most appropriate method of protecting your personal information.

Advice for safe, responsible browsing where cookies are concerned

Because of their flexibility, and because most of the largest and most-visited sites use them, cookies are all but unavoidable. Disabling cookies will not allow a user access to the most widespread and widely used sites, among them YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo and others. Here is some advice that can help you browse without worry, but with the help of cookies:

Tailor your browser’s cookie settings to reflect a level of cookie security you are comfortable with.
If cookies do not bother you and you are the only person using the computer, you can set long expiry periods for storing your browsing history and personal access data.
If you share access to the computer, you might consider setting the browser to delete individual browsing data every time you close it. This is one way of visiting sites that place cookies and deleting any visit information when the browsing session ends.
Install anti-spyware applications and keep them constantly updated.

Many spyware detection and prevention applications include the detection of attacks on websites. This stops the browser from reaching websites that might exploit browser vulnerabilities or download dangerous software. Make sure your browser is always up to date. Many cookie-based attacks work by exploiting the weaknesses of older browser versions.

Cookies are everywhere and cannot be avoided if you want to enjoy access to the best and biggest sites on the internet, local or international. With a clear understanding of how they work and the benefits they bring, you can take the security measures you need in order to browse the internet with confidence.

How can I stop cookies?

Disabling cookies and refusing to receive them can make certain sites impractical or difficult to visit and use. Refusing to accept cookies also does not mean you will no longer receive or see online advertising.

It is possible to set your browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted, or to set it to accept cookies from a particular site. But if, for example, you are not registered using cookies, you will not be able to leave comments.

All modern browsers offer the ability to change cookie settings. These settings are usually found in your browser’s “options” or “preferences” menu. To understand these settings, the following links may be useful; otherwise you can use your browser’s “help” option for more detail.

For the settings of cookies generated by third parties, you can also consult:

http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro/(opens in a new tab)

Useful links

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

Questions, suggestions or complaints?

Do you have questions about data protection, our cookie policy, or our website? No problem — we are glad to help. You can contact us using the details on our contact page.