Cookies are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user’s web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user’s device during a session.
Cookies serve useful and sometimes essential functions on the web. They enable web servers to store useful information, such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store, on the user’s device or to track the user's browsing activity in order to improve to user’s web-browsing experience.
 

We use cookies to monitor what you have purchased from us and what actions you have taken on the website.
 
Our cookies do not contain personal data such as your name. They only help to link your browsing information to your personal data when you choose to sign up for a service or newsletter.
 
For this, in some cases we use persistent cookies. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously- we always monitor and improve the ways in which we are able to protect this type of information.
 
We’ve put our placed our cookies into the following categories in order to make it easier for you to understand why we need them.
 
1 Strictly necessary - these are used to streamline our work process on the website;
 
2 Performance - these are used to analyze how our site works and how we can improve it further;
 
3 Functionality- they help to improve your personal experience, for example by reminding you which products you desired to buy;
 
4 Targeting / advertising- these are used to exchange certain information with third parties with whom we advertise with, in order to know how you managed to reach our website. We may also use cookies in order to identify the parts of the website you are interested in. We then use this information to show you different ads or pages that might be of interest to you, to individualize the way we communicate with you, or to individualize the content of the communications we send you. If you prefer, you can opt out at any time by changing your browser’s settings. Content individualization means including information that reflects the interest you have shown in the content of our webpages or offers or promotions that we think may interest you, and most of all to improve the way we respond to your needs.
 
In addition, in some cases other affiliates will add cookies in order to show you relevant ads and internet pages that may be of interest to you. Detail on how to opt out of these, if you so prefer, can be found in the “Third-party cookies” section of this page.
 
Cookies allow you to have a better browsing experience and some of them are necessary for the website to properly function. We use cookies for:
 

• improving response time while accessing pages on the website
• registration of website browsing preferences
• displaying a custom content that matches a user’s role and rights
• visitor analysis, in order to constantly improve the user’s experience on the website, with the help of Google Analytics which helps us collect data about the website’s visits
• registration of the user’s acceptance regarding cookies on their firs access of the website
• temporary records of previously viewed content that is still relevant to the browsing.
   

In order to subscribe to our services, you must have cookies enabled in your internet browser’s settings. The most popular browsers are:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Opera
   

The primary cookies come from the same domain as the website you are currently visiting (in this case, www.automeridian.ro)
 
Third party cookies come from a different domain than the site you are visiting. For example, when you visit our website, we may include a link to another’s company website - such as our Facebook account or a video from the Dacia Renault manufacturer’s Youtube page.
 
MERIDIAN Group’s affiliates which have a different domain name may also be able to place cookies on our website in order to show you ads or pages from other MERIDIAN Group companies that may be of interest to you. Detail about these affiliates- and how to opt out of this - are included below.
 
The third parties who are able to place cookies on our are: Google, Facebook. We use these cookies to: 
 

• distinguish different users in order to display relevant advertising material on the website
• deliver, measure and improve ad relevance 
• register users that wish to unsubscribe from receiving advertising materials
• personalize ads found on Google Search (most recent searches, previous interactions with ads or search results and site visits)
• measure users interactions with the commercials placed on the domain and prevent them from seeing those ads too often
• determine how many times a user chose to click on an ad.

You can control the way we use cookies from your browser’s settings.
 
How to check if cookies are enabled on PCs
 
Google Chrome
 
1. Click on the menu button from the top right corner of your browser window (more specifically on the three horizontal dots) and select “Settings” and then “Show advanced settings”.
 
2. Locate the title “Data protection” and select “Content settings”
 
3. Now select the option “Allow setting local data”
 
 
 
Mozilla Firefox
 
1. Click on the menu button (three horizontal bars) at the top right corner of your browser window and select “Options”
 
2. Then select the “Data protection” icon
 
3. Click on “Cookies” and then select “allow websites to set cookies”
 
 
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
 
1. Click the settings icon (which looks like a cogwheel) at the top right corner of the browser window and select “Internet Options”, the click the “Data Protection” button
 
2. Make sure that the Data Protection level is set either on “Medium” or “Low”. This way, cookies will be allowed in your browser.
 
3. Setting a protection level higher than “Medium” will automatically disable cookies
 
How to check if cookies are enabled for devices running the “Mac” operating system
 
Safari (Mac’s default browser)
 
1. Click on “Safari” at the top of the browser window and select the “Preferences option”
 
2. Click on “Data Protection”
 
3. Select “Allow from the websites I visit”
 

If you wish to know how to stop websites from using cookies that are able to track the activity on the websites you visit select  the browser you want to choose from the list bellow. These links will take you directly to the respective browser page, where you can manage cookies and site data:

Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari

If you do change the cookie settings on the browser you will use to enter our website, your experience with us will not be monitored.

You can also find additional information regarding the control/delete of cookies at the following address: http://allaboutcookies.org