Information about cookies
Cookies are small amounts of information that the Autoosta server places on the user’s computer, phone or tablet in order to facilitate the user’s work on the Autoosta website and to correctly reflect the Autoosta website to the user. The cookies used by the Autoosta website are designed to ensure ease of use and to improve the performance and functionality of the www.autoosta website.
Types of cookies
There are two types of cookies – session and persistent cookies. Cookies are also classified as first-party or third-party cookies. Below, the above-mentioned concepts are explained in the text so that the User can better understand the nature of cookies and why Autoosta uses them.
Session cookies
Session cookies allow the User to be recognized when he visits a particular website, by remembering any changes or preferences on that particular website so that they are also saved on other pages. These cookies allow the User to quickly and conveniently use several pages of the same website, avoiding the need to process each page visited. Session cookies are not permanent – they will expire when you close your web browser or end your session on that website.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies are cookies that are stored on the User’s computer for a certain time after the end of the web browsing session, so they allow the user’s choices or behavior on the website to be saved and used the next time the user visits the website.
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies maintained by organizations administered by the website operator.
Third party cookies
Third-party cookies are maintained by other domains that do not belong to autoosta.lv. The third-party cookies that may be stored on the User’s computer, phone or tablet when the User browses the Autoosta website are Google Analytics cookies, which are intended for website monitoring. These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website. Autoosta uses this information to create reports and improve its website. Google Analytics cookies collect and compile information in an anonymous form about the number of visitors, the location of access to this website and the sections of the Autoosta website that were browsed. These cookies are created by Google Analytics.
For more information, the User is advised to visit the website:http://www.google.com/analytics.
If the User chooses not to collect information about his activities on this website, the User must activate the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881) plug-in. This add-on communicates with Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that data about the respective website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
For the best user experience and full functionality of the website, we recommend that you save cookies.
Consent to the use of cookies
By selecting the “I agree” menu in the box that appears when entering the Autoosta website, the User agrees that the Autoosta can collect information about visiting the Autoosta website using cookies, as determined by the User’s internet browser. The User may not use the Autoosta website if the User does not want cookies related to the Autoosta website to be recorded on the User’s computer, phone or tablet. Even if the User initially agrees to the storage of cookies, the User can block them or delete them from the User’s device at any time using the User’s browser settings.
The User will be informed that without cookies, the User may not be able to access many options that make the User’s activities on the web more convenient. In addition, some of Autoosta’s services may function incompletely without cookies.
Withdraw consent and manage Cookie settings
Cookie settings can be changed by the User at any time in their Internet browser. For example, withdraw your consent to the storage of cookies by unchecking the function in your browser that allows you to reject all proposals for the storage of cookies. The User can find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menus of their Internet browser.
Useful links for the user:
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Cookies
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com and type the word “cookies” in the search field.
- Safari: https://www.apple.com/support/ and type the word “cookies” in the search field.