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Last updated: 15 June 2025  ·  teodorrafaelmaxim

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to remember your preferences, understand how you navigate, and provide a better experience on your next visit. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information on their own.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary

These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They are set in response to actions you take such as setting your language preference or accessing secure areas.

  • — Session management cookies
  • — Cookie consent preference storage
  • — Security and anti-fraud tokens

Analytics & Performance

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our route guides — which paths are most explored, where readers drop off, and how we can improve content.

  • — Google Analytics (anonymised IP)
  • — Page view and scroll depth tracking
  • — Device and browser type (aggregated)

Requires your consent. You may opt out at any time.

Marketing & Social

These cookies may be set by our social-sharing integrations or partner platforms. They track visits across websites to display relevant content about Romanian travel and routes.

  • — Facebook / Meta Pixel (if enabled)
  • — YouTube embed cookies (when video content is present)

Requires your explicit consent. Not enabled by default.

3. Why We Use Cookies

  • ·To keep the site running correctly and securely.
  • ·To understand which routes and editorial content resonate with our community.
  • ·To remember your cookie preferences so we do not ask on every visit.
  • ·To improve the accessibility and usability of our route guides over time.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages — for example, embedded maps (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps) or analytics platforms. These third parties have their own privacy policies, and we do not control how they process data collected through their cookies. We encourage you to review their policies:

  • — Google Analytics & Google Maps: policies.google.com/privacy
  • — Meta / Facebook: facebook.com/privacy/policy
  • — YouTube: youtube.com/intl/privacy

5. How to Manage & Disable Cookies

You have full control over non-essential cookies. You can:

  • ·Browser settings: Block or delete cookies through your browser's privacy settings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge all offer this).
  • ·Opt-out tools: Use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • ·Our consent banner: Revisit your preferences via the cookie settings link in our site footer.

Note: Disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect core site functionality, such as navigation and content display.

6. Your Consent

When you first visit teodorrafaelmaxim, we display a cookie consent banner. By clicking "Accept All", you consent to analytics and marketing cookies in addition to strictly necessary ones. You may choose "Manage Preferences" to enable only the categories you are comfortable with. Strictly necessary cookies are always active and do not require consent under applicable law (GDPR, ePrivacy Directive).

You may withdraw your consent at any time by updating your preferences via the cookie settings link in the footer. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of any prior processing.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our practices. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review it periodically. Continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

8. Questions?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please reach out:

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Email: [email protected]

Or visit our Contacts page.

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