Cookie Policy
- Purpose and scope
Online store www.abrites.com (the Website), owned and managed by ABRITES LTD., with UIC 131566638, with registered office Sofia 1407, Lozenets region, 147 Cherni Vrah Blvd. (The Controller) is using “cookies”. We use cookies to make sure that the services we offer will be optimized for the needs of our clients and the website visitors accordingly, and we will be able to guarantee the proper functioning of the website. The use of cookies ensures that you get the most appropriate information and the best user experience, including outside of the website as a personalized advertisement. They help you get a special individual experience when using our services and provide you with more relevant content, and also help us to analyze better the clients’ behaviour.
This Cookie Policy provides you with information about the collection and processing of cookies by the Controller for the purposes of the personalization, assessment, improvement and security of our services, as well as their management. The Policy is compliant with the active national and European regulations, in particular the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (GDPR).
The website can save cookies on your computer or mobile device with or without your consent. Your consent is required for the attachment of cookies of any category other than strictly necessary.
- What are “cookies”?
Cookies are small text files that can be saved on your device/browser when you visit the website and used to store temporary information about the user. Upon your next visit to the website, the browser will send back to the web server the information in the already-created cookies. The different types of cookies have different storage periods, which means that upon a subsequent visit to our website, the cookie could be already deleted. Every browser has a separate space for storage of cookies and if you are using more than one browser, cookies with identical purposes and by identical web servers may be saved more than once.
- Cookies and personal data
Cookies do not generally individualize a specific person, but give information about the browser and the device used. Personal data collected by cookies can only be used to perform user-specific features on the website. The data is encrypted to prevent access by unauthorized persons and is not used in any way except for the provision of the full functionality of the website and the use of our services, as well as analyzing user behaviour. The technical information we collect on cookies does not constitute personal data within the meaning of the GDPR and the active national and European regulations as it is not sufficiently individualizing. Its use is required for the operation of the website, collection of the necessary information, including legally required information, guarantee of the security of website users, and improvement of the services we provide to you.
- What cookies do we use on our website?
Depending on the term for storage of cookies on the user’s device, they are divided into session and permanent cookies. Session cookies are stored temporarily on your device and are deleted after the session is over – when the website is closed. Permanent cookies are stored on the end device for the term provided for them or until they are deleted by the user. You can see hereinafter a detailed list of the specific cookies we collect and the terms for their storage.
Apart from the division based on the term for their storage, there are also the following types of cookies:- Essential cookies:
The major functionalities of our website are for the most part dependent on the cookies we have placed. Without these cookies, the website would not function properly. If you disallow these cookies, you will not be able to sign into our website, make purchases, or use other basic features of the website.
- Functional cookies:
We use these cookies for features like:
- To remember what settings you have chosen in your account, what favourite products you have specified, what delivery information you selected on your last order, and more.
- To recommend products that match your preferences.
- To collect and analyze how the website is used so we can improve the user experience and make our website even easier and more convenient.
- Cookies from third parties for analytical purposes
These cookies help to monitor the traffic to our website, which helps us to analyze how convenient it is to use it and to draw general conclusions based on the collected statistical information in order to improve the functioning of the website. For this purpose, we use the established and secure tools of Google Analytics (the policy of Google Analytics can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en). These cookies do not give any information about your personal data. Under the warranties provided by Google as a party to personal data, the information contained therein is anonymized. The purpose of these cookies is to be able to monitor the effectiveness of our service and to improve them. The maximum period in which we store analytical data in Google Analytics is 38 months.
- Cookies from third parties for precise targeting and advertising purposes
These cookies contain information about how you have used our website and can be used to personalize advertising campaigns through the platforms of external sites and services. This way you see information that is relevant to you, including advertising. These cookies do not store personal data and the information is anonymized. Our website uses cookies, through which we can share information that you have visited our website and how you use it, with our partner social networks and external advertising platforms that we use: Facebook ads, Google AdWords, AdWise and etc.
- Essential cookies:
- How to deactivate the cookies
Every user has the opportunity to control the use of cookies, to allow, delete and deactivate the collection of the cookies henceforth, through the settings of the web browser he/she is using. In the different browsers the tools that are used to control the use of the cookies can be found in different places, as most often they can be found in the “Options”/ “Settings”/ “Preferences” menu. Again in the menu of the respective browser, which contains the settings for allowing, deactivating and blocking cookies, you can also find the option to delete the already stored cookies.
You can also change the default automatic management of the cookies, respectively the terms set for their storage, again through the settings of your browser.
You can withdraw your consent at any time from the cookie control panel of the website.
It is important you take into consideration that with the restriction and the deletion of the cookies, as well as the change of their automatic management, it is possible that you won’t be able to use the complete functionalities of the website and this may cause malfunctioning and technical errors upon entering and shopping from it.
- Cookies used by the website
Cookies or technical means for storing the information from the usage of the website Category of the cookie Term for storage of the cookie Purpose and functions of the cookie Domain on which the information is stored PHPSESSID Necessary session This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user's unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and will be deleted when all the browser windows are closed. abrites.com device_view Necessary 1 year This cookie is used for storing the visitor device display inorder to serve them with most suitable layout. abrites.com _gcl_au Marketing 3 months Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. abrites.com test_cookie Marketing 15 minutes doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. doubleclick.net _ga Analytics 1 year 1 month 4 days Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. abrites.com _gid Analytics 1 Day Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. abrites.com _dc_gtm_UA-* Analytics 1 minute Google Analytics sets this cookie to load the Google Analytics script tag. abrites.com _ga_* Analytics 1 year 1 month 4 days Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. abrites.com _hjSessionUser_* Analytics 1 year Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. abrites.com _hjFirstSeen Analytics 30 minutes Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. abrites.com _hjIncludedInSessionSample_* Analytics 30 minutes Set by Hotjar to determine if a user is included in the data sampling for the current session. abrites.com _hjSession_* Analytics 30 minutes Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. abrites.com _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress Analytics 30 minutes Hotjar sets this cookie to detect a user's first pageview session, which is a True/False flag set by the cookie. abrites.com _fbp Marketing 3 minutes Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. abrites.com grid-view Necessary 1 day Site settings how to display elements in catalog and news abrites.com IDE Marketing 1 year Carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before .doubleclick.net cc_prefs Necessary 6 months Stores your cookie consent preferences abrites.com APP_SHOP_REMEMBER_ME Necessary 1 year Remembers user login status to maintain automatic sign-in functionality abrites.com
Abrites LTD. may, in its sole discretion, change and supplement this Cookie Policy at any time.
If you have any questions, comments, or requests related to this Cookie Policy, you can contact us at info@abrites.com.
More information about cookies, including how to manage them, can be found on the following website: www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that the content of this website is only available in the following languages: English.
This Policy on the use of cookies was last amended on 23 December 2024. All future changes to our Policy will be posted on this page.