Cookie policy
Last updated: 8 November 2026
This page explains which cookies and similar technologies www.cartel-alfa.ro uses, why we use them and how you can choose which ones are allowed. It supplements our Privacy policy.
1. Who is responsible
The site is run by Confederația Națională Sindicală CARTEL ALFA (CNS Cartel Alfa), Str. Lipscani nr. 53, 2nd floor, sector 3, Bucharest, Romania. For questions about cookies or your data, write to dpo@cartel-alfa.ro.
2. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website saves in your browser so it can remember information from one page or visit to the next. Some sites also use the browser's local storage, which works in a similar way. In this policy we call all of these "cookies".
- First-party cookies are saved by our site (the cartel-alfa.ro domain).
- Third-party cookies are saved by other services shown in our pages (for example Google or YouTube), on their own domains. Their policies apply to them.
3. How you give consent
On your first visit, a message with two buttons appears at the bottom of the page:
- Accept all – you also allow the optional cookies described in section 5;
- Necessary only – the site uses only the strictly necessary cookies in section 4.
Until you choose "Accept all", the site does not load Google Ads, Google Analytics, webpushr notifications, the Google Maps map, the Substack sign-up form or YouTube videos. The map, the form and each video can also be shown one at a time by clicking the button in their place; this then applies only to that item.
You can change your choice at any time, including to withdraw consent, from the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page, or here: open cookie settings. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of cookie use before the withdrawal.
4. Strictly necessary cookies
The site cannot work properly without these, so they do not require your consent (Article 4(5) of Romanian Law no. 506/2004).
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | cartel-alfa.ro | Browsing session: remembers your language (Romanian or English) and, for site administrators, their login. | Until you close the browser |
| cookie_consent | cartel-alfa.ro | Remembers your choice in the cookie message ("all" or "necessary") so we don't ask on every page. | 6 months |
| _GRECAPTCHA and related Google cookies | Google (reCAPTCHA) | Contact page only: protects the contact form against automated messages (spam). | Up to 6 months |
5. Optional cookies (only with your consent)
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au, _gcl_ls | Google Ads | Measuring how well our information campaigns work: shows whether a visitor came to the site from a Google ad. | 90 days |
| _ga, _ga_<ID> | Google Analytics | Visit statistics (pages viewed, time on site), without storing IP addresses. | 2 years |
| _webpushr (local storage) | webpushr | Notifications about our press releases and events. You only get notifications if you also approve them in your browser's prompt. | Until deleted |
| Google cookies (for example NID) | Google Maps | Showing the map of our office on the Contact page. | Up to 6 months |
| YouTube cookies (for example YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE) and local storage | YouTube (Google) | Playing the videos embedded in some pages. We use the "youtube-nocookie.com" version, which stores less until you start the video. | Up to 6 months |
| Substack cookies | Substack | Showing the sign-up form for the "Portavocea" newsletter on the home page. | As set by Substack |
6. YouTube videos
YouTube videos in our pages first appear as a box with a "Show the video" button. Nothing loads from YouTube until you accept optional cookies or press that button. If you would rather not load them on our site, the "watch it on YouTube" link opens the video directly on youtube.com.
7. Links to social networks
The "Facebook" buttons and the link to our Facebook page are plain links: they load nothing from Facebook and save no cookies until you click them. After you click, Facebook's (Meta's) policy applies.
8. Provider policies
- Google (Ads, Analytics, Maps, reCAPTCHA, YouTube): policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
- webpushr: webpushr.com/privacy-policy
- Substack: substack.com/privacy
- Meta (Facebook): facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies
9. Deleting or blocking cookies in your browser
Besides the settings on our site, you can view, delete or block cookies in your browser settings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and others, usually under "Privacy"). If you block all cookies, the language choice and the cookie message may stop working properly.
10. Your rights
Where a cookie makes it possible to identify you, you have the rights described in our Privacy policy (access, rectification, erasure, objection, withdrawal of consent). You can also complain to the Romanian data protection authority, ANSPDCP (www.dataprotection.ro).
11. Changes
We will update this policy whenever we add or remove services that use cookies. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.