Cookie Policy

This Cookies Policy applies to www.josped.com, hereafter “the Website”, which is managed and maintained by Josped Ltd. a company entered in the Commercial Register of the Bulgarian Registry Agency under Unique Identification Code (UIC) 203730711, having its seat and place management at №16 Prodan Tarakchiev Str., Sofia.

When you first visit www.josped.com we will ask you to accept the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy. By using our website and accepting these rules, you agree to use cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

What is a cookie?

A cookies is a small file containing a set of textual information which a website transfers from the web browser to the hard disk of your computer. Depending on the type of cookie, the cookie file may reside on your hard disk only for the duration of your visit or for longer periods. Cookies perform certain functions (such as distinguishing you from other users of the same website or storing certain information about you, e.g. your preferences). Thus, most websites use cookies to facilitate your surfing.

Cookies cannot damage your files or increase the risk of viruses affecting your computer.

Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain it comes from, the cookie lifetime and a certain value (usually a randomly generated number).

What use “cookies”?

These files enable knowledge of the user’s device and presentation of content in the appropriate manner adapted to the user’s preferences. Cookies provide the user a pleasant experience while navigating the Internet and assist www.josped.com offer appropriate services to users, such as – preference for online privacy. Also, be used in the preparation of anonymous statistics that help us understand how a user prefers to use our websites, enabling us to improve the structure and content, excluding the identification of the individual user.

What type of “cookies” do we use?

Josped uses two types of cookies – session cookies and persistent cookies. The session cookies are temporary cookie files, that remain in the user’s device until the end of their user session or until you close the application (web browser). The persistent cookies stay in the browser’s subfolders until the user delete them manually or the browser deletes them based on the duration period contained within the persistent cookie’s file.

How we use “cookies” on this website?

Visiting this website may create cookies for the following purposes::

• we use performance cookies on our website. These cookies allow us to collect information about how visitors use our website, including which pages they visit most often, and whether they receive error messages from specific pages. These cookies do not collect information that uniquely identifies a visitor. All the information that these cookies collect is generalized and anonymous. Used only to improve the functioning of www.josped.com.
• we use functional cookies on our website to allow josped.com to remember the information you have entered or to make your choice and to offer better, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to memorize changes made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can personalize.
• We use third-party service providers to serve ads on our behalf on the Internet. These service providers may collect your IP address and information that does not allow personal information about your visits to our website to display www.josped.com ads while visiting other websites. This non-personal identification is anonymous and does not include your name, address, email address or other personal information, but your IP address can be collected. Anonymous information is collected using a pixel tag (also known as pixels and tags), which is a standard technology used by most major websites.
• We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about the use of websites through cookies. The created information related to our site is used to create reports about its use. The privacy policy of the analytics service provider is available at https://google.com/policies/privacy.
• Our web site also contains links to and from third-party websites – Facebook, Twitter.

Do the cookies contain personal data?

By itself, cookies do not require personal information to be used and most often do not identify Internet users’ personality. Personal data collected when using cookies can only be collected to facilitate the use of our website. These data are encrypted in a way that prevents unauthorized persons from accessing them.

Block “cookies”.

In general, an application for accessing web pages allows you to store cookies by default. These settings can be changed so that automatic cookie control is blocked by the web browser or the user is informed whenever cookies are sent to his or her terminal. Detailed information about the options and ways of managing cookies can be found in the application settings (on the web browser). Restricting the use of cookies may affect some features of the web page.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using “Settings”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”.
• in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy & Security”. To disable cookies, select Block cookies, and site data and use the drop-down menu next to Type blocked to choose the type of cookies to block.
• in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the Customize and Control menu and clicking Settings, Display advanced settings, and Content settings.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Deleting “cookies”

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
• You can delete cookies in Firefox (version 24) by clicking Tools, Options, and Privacy & Security, then selecting Cookies and Site Data section, then Manage Data and Remove All Shown; and
• in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the Customize and Control menu and clicking Settings, Display advanced settings, and Clear browsing data and other site and plug-in data before Click ‘Clear browsing data’.

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Why cookies are important for the Internet?

Cookies are a central point for effective web-based functioning, helping to design a particular pattern of preferences and interests of each user. Disabling cookies may make some sites impossible to use.

Disabling cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online ads, but that these will no longer appear in your account for preferred and interesting cookies collected through your browsing behavior.

Examples of important cookie roles (which do not require authentication via an account):

• Content and services adapted to user preferences – product and service categories.
• Offers tailored to user preferences – remembering passwords.
• Save child protection filters on Internet content (family mode option, safe search function).
• Restricting ad usage frequency – limiting ad submission to a particular site user.
• Providing ads that would interest the user.
• Measurement, optimization, and analytics features – how to verify a level of traffic on the website, what kind of content is visualized, and how a user reaches a website (e.g., search engines, directly, other websites, etc.). Websites develop these analyzes and their use to improve the site for the benefit of consumers.

Security and confidentiality.

Cookies are NOT Viruses! They use the form of plain text. They are not made up of parts of codes, so they can not be executed or executed independently. Therefore, they can not be duplicated or copied to other networks to start or replicate. Because they cannot perform these functions, they can not be considered viruses.

Cookies can still be used for negative purposes. As they store preference information, as well as the history of user browsing, both on a particular site and on most other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Some anti-spyware software is unaware of this fact and consistently mark cookies to be removed during removal/scanning/anti-virus/anti-spyware procedures.

Typically, browsers have built-in privacy settings that provide different cookie acceptance, expiration and auto-erase times after the user has visited a site.

Other security aspects related to cookies:

Since data protection is extremely important and is the right of every Internet user, it is advisable to know the potential issues that cookies can create. It sends constant and bidirectional information between the browser and the website, and in the event that a hacker or other unauthorized person interfere at the time the data is sent, then the information containing the cookies can be intercepted.

On rare occasions, this can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (e.g., a wireless password-protected network).

Other types of cookie-based attacks require incorrect cookie settings on the server. If a website does not require the browser to use only encrypted channels, hackers can use this vulnerability to deceive browsers when sending information through unsecured channels. Hackers then use the information for unauthorized access to certain websites. It is very important to be careful when choosing the most appropriate personal data protection.

Tips for secure and responsible cookie-based web browsing.

Due to their versatility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, the latter is almost inevitable.

Deactivating cookies will not allow the user to access the most common and used sites, including Youtube, Gmail, Yahoo, and others.
All modern browsers offer the ability to change cookie settings. These settings are generally in “options” or in your browser’s “favorites” menu, which you can customize the use of cookies in your browser.