Cookies Policy

The website www.vonstaff.com uses cookies, and by browsing this site, as a visitor, user, or customer, you agree to their use by Vonstaff, which is the owner of this site.

Why do we use cookies?

The Vonstaff site uses cookies because they play an important role in facilitating access, optimizing functionality, and providing services that the user enjoys on the site, such as:

  • Cookies facilitate access and the provision of services used by internet users, as well as the personalization of certain settings (e.g. language, country, prices displayed in national currency, etc.), maintaining options for various products (e.g. size) in the shopping cart and remembering these options, thus generating flexibility for the shopping cart (accessing initial preferences by clicking the "forward" and "back" buttons).
  • Cookies provide valuable feedback to Vonstaff on how the site is used by users, so it can be more efficient and accessible for them.
  • Improves the efficiency of online advertising.
  • They can allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a certain design or theme, making navigation more useful.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is not a virus, it is a small file that websites save on the user's computer. These cookies are not dangerous to the user.

They cannot be executed by the user's computer and cannot access files stored on the computer.

Cookies, in themselves, do not request personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify internet users.

A cookie consists of two parts: its name and its content or value.

Furthermore, the lifetime of a cookie is determined; technically, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that web server.

What types of cookies are there?

  • Session cookies: they are stored temporarily in the browser's history, which remembers them until the user leaves the respective website or closes the browser window.
  • Persistent cookies (third party cookies): they are stored, depending on a predetermined duration, on a computer's hard drive or equipment; they can be used anonymously to remember users' interests, so that advertising relevant to the searches performed by users can be delivered; this type of cookie also includes those placed by another website other than the one the user is visiting at that time;

Advantages of cookies

A cookie contains information that links users to a particular website. If a browser accesses that web server again, it can read the already stored information and react accordingly.

Cookies ensure users have a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of websites to offer professional services to users (e.g. online privacy, site language options, shopping carts, relevant advertising, etc.).

Do cookies contain personal data?

Cookies themselves do not request personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify internet users. Personal data collected through the use of cookies can only be collected to facilitate certain functionalities for the user. Such data is encrypted in a way that makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to access it.

Security and privacy issues

Cookies are not viruses! They use plain text formats. They are not made up of code segments so they cannot be executed or auto-run. Consequently, they cannot duplicate or replicate on other networks to run or replicate again. Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses.

However, cookies can be used for negative purposes. Since they store information about users' preferences and browsing history, both on a particular site and across multiple other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this and constantly mark cookies for deletion in anti-virus/anti-spyware scanning and deletion procedures.

In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a particular site.

What kind of cookies does www.vonstaff.com use?

  1. Essential cookies

    These cookies are necessary to provide you with services available through our site and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

  2. Performance cookies

    These cookies collect information about how you use our site, for example, which pages you visit most often and if you receive error messages from web pages.

  3. Functional cookies

    These cookies allow our site to remember the choices you make when using our site, such as remembering your language preferences or login details.

  4. Targeting cookies

    These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Disabling cookies

Disabling and refusing to receive cookies can make certain sites impractical or difficult to visit and use.

Also, refusing to accept cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive/see online advertising.

It is possible to set the browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted or you can set the browser to accept cookies from a specific site.

All modern browsers offer the possibility to change cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser.