Cookie policy
Policy on the use of cookies on the Yoda Home Design website
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, phone, tablet or mobile device. They are stored on the above devices by the websites you visit (such as our website), and contain information about your activity on those websites – for example – sub-pages accessed, the time spent on a particular page, etc.
Cookies may be session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your computer even after the browser is closed, usually until you delete them manually.
From a technical point of view, such information may also be obtained by us through other technical means similar to cookies and used for the same purposes (e.g., web beacons, pixels, widgets, device identifiers, etc.). In this Policy, we refer to all of these technologies using the term “cookies”.
This cookie policy may be updated depending on the developments we make to the website, and any additional information will be included in this updated document, which you will be able to find on the website.
This cookie policy sets out information regarding the processing of personal data stored by means of cookies on the website - www.yodahomedesign.ro.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to help you access the services of our website as easily and efficiently as possible.
Cookies help us to provide, protect and improve the services of our website.
For example, through them we can recognise you, so that the next time you connect we can offer you personalised content, by tailoring or measuring advertisements, while at the same time ensuring an experience that is as safe and as easy to access as possible.
Given the way in which the services we offer online will develop, these cookies may change their technological characteristics in the future. However, even in this situation, they will continue to serve one of the purposes below.
Which cookies do we use and for what purposes?
To make them easier for you to identify, we have grouped the types of cookies we use into several categories:
a. Strictly necessary cookies – necessary for providing the services of the website (for example, cookies for system administration and for preventing fraudulent activity);
b. Analytics cookies – used directly by us (first-party cookies), or used through other third parties (third-party cookies) to help us offer you an improved experience and to be able to analyse how the website works (for example, cookies through which we assess the performance of the website (e.g., number of visits, duration, etc.) and can test different design ideas);
c. Advertising cookies – used directly by us (first-party cookies), or used through other third parties (third-party cookies) to deliver relevant and personalised marketing materials to each user, as well as to assess the effectiveness of that content (for example, cookies for personalising advertising content).
What special cookies do we use?
On our website we use social media icons, such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or TikTok.
In order for us to offer you all this embedded content, we use a number of technical means similar to cookies, called widgets or pixels, which we obtain from other entities such as social media networks (for example Facebook, Instagram, TikTok).
• for example, we use the Facebook Pixel, a service provided by Facebook used to observe your activity on yodahomedesign.ro following your interaction with advertisements delivered through the Facebook advertising network;
When you visit a page with embedded content (for example, with a video from TikTok), or click on a social network symbol on our website, a cookie will be placed on your computer.
In addition, we may recognise the information in the cookies on your computer in order to understand how you interact with our website and with the electronic messages we send. We achieve this by using technical means similar to cookies, called web beacons. These allow us to correlate the information in the cookies relating to you.
• for example, we use web beacons stored in the e-mails sent to you to identify whether you have opened them, or whether you were interested in the content provided there.
Who helps us place and process the information in these cookies?
As a rule, the information stored in the cookies used by our website is used by us (i.e., first-party cookies). However, there are a number of services detailed below that may be used by us through the use of third-party cookies.
These third-party cookies are provided by entities such as Google, Facebook. They allow us to benefit from additional services provided by them, so that we can improve our own services and make the use of our website much easier.
Through these cookies, we can provide you with relevant materials tailored to your preferences, while also being able to assess the effectiveness of that content.
For example, we use products offered by Google that use cookies, through which we can more easily identify your interests and personalise advertisements relating to the products you view, whether on our website or on other websites or online pages. In this way, we manage to promote to you only those products we believe you would be interested in, avoiding spam or unnecessary advertisements.
How can you disable the use of cookies by this website?
If you do not want our website to use cookies, you can disable them at any time through the settings offered by your browser.
You can restrict, block or delete the cookies used by this website at any time, using the settings offered by the web browser you use. These differ from one browser provider to another, but in most cases they can be found in the “Settings” section, under the section relating to “Security” or “Privacy”. The help function of your browser can give you more information about these settings.
There are certain services offered by our website for which the use of cookies is necessary. This means that, if you choose to restrict or block cookies, you will no longer be able to use certain features or services of the website that depend on the use of cookies, as we will present in the table below.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_shopify_essential, __Host-Http-shop_binding | Shopify | Running the store: basket, session and account security | Necessary | 1 year / session |
localization, cart_currency | Shopify | Remembers your chosen language and currency | Necessary | 1 year / 14 days |
_shop_app_essential | Shop Pay (Shopify) | Fast checkout with Shop Pay | Necessary | 1 year |
__cf_bm | hCaptcha (Cloudflare) | Protects forms against automated (spam) messages | Necessary | 30 minutes |
_cfuvid | Elfsight (Cloudflare) | Displays the Instagram feed on the homepage | Necessary | session |
_shopify_analytics | Shopify | Statistics on how the store is used | Statistics / marketing | 1 year |
sc_is_visitor_unique, is_unique, is_visitor_unique | StatCounter | Counting visits and unique visitors | Statistics / marketing | about 13 months |
_clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Analysing how the site is used (clicks, scrolling) so we can improve it | Statistics / marketing | 1 year / 1 day |
_shopify_marketing | Shopify | Measuring marketing campaigns | Statistics / marketing | 1 year |
If you wish to delete the cookies from your computer, you can use the browser settings for this. As a rule, this function is found in the Settings or History menu, for any browser:
• In the Internet Explorer browser, this function is available as follows: internet settings – browsing history – delete browsing history. The help function of your browser can give you more information about these settings.
For the Google Chrome browser, go to history (or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+H) - clear browsing data – cookies and other site data.