I. Subject

This policy applies to the cookies and internet pages served by the company "HOMELY BULGARIA" DZZD ("Ние"), entered in the commercial register at the Registration Agency with EIK 177361480, with headquarters and management address: Haskovo, Otets Street Paisius” No. 25-27; 2nd floor, office 3,4

When visiting WWW.HOMELY.BG, we will ask you to accept the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of these rules. By using our website and accepting these rules, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of these rules.

II. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file made up of letters and numbers that will be stored on your computer, mobile device or other equipment of a user that is used to access the Internet. The cookie is installed through the request sent by the server of a web page to the browser (for example: Internet Explorer, Chrome) and is completely "passive" (does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and does not access the information from the user's hardware).

III. What are cookies used for?

These files make it possible to know the user's device and to present its content in a way adapted to the user's preferences. Cookies provide the user with a pleasant experience while browsing the Internet and help "HOMELY BULGARIA" DZZD to offer user-friendly services. Also, they are used in the preparation of anonymous statistics that help us understand how a user prefers to uses our websites, allowing us to improve their structure and content, excluding the identification of the user's personality.

IV. What types of "cookies" are there?

There are two types of cookies – per user session and persistent. The first are temporary files that remain on the user's device until the end of the user session or until the application (web browser) is closed. Fixed files remain on the user's device for the period parameterized by the cookies or until they are manually deleted by the user.

V. How are cookies used by this website?

Visiting this site may create cookies with the following purposes:

• We use cookies for the performance of our website. These cookies enable the collection of information about how visitors use our website, including which pages they visit most often and whether they receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that individually identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. It is used only to improve the operation and functioning of WWW.HOMELY.BG;
• We use functional "cookies" on our website to allow WWW.HOMELY.BG to remember the information you have entered or to make your choices, and to offer better, more personal features. These cookies can be used to remember changes made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise.
• We use third-party service providers to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. These service providers may collect your IP address and non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our site in order to display advertisements on WWW.HOMELY.BG while you visit other websites. This non-personally identifiable information is anonymous and does not include your name, address, email address or other personal information, but your IP address may be collected. Anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag (also known as "cookies" and action tags), which is a standard technology used by most major websites.
• We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website usage through cookies. The information created related to our site is used to create reports on its use. The privacy policy of the analytics service provider is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
• Our site contains links to other sites, sharing buttons, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. These other websites, services and applications may set their own cookies on users' computers, collect data or request personal information. You should refer to all privacy policies found on such websites, services and applications to understand how your information may be collected and used.
• Cookies for registration in order to ensure the security of the Site.
• Geo-targeting cookies;

VI. Do cookies contain personal data?

By themselves, cookies do not require information of a personal nature in order to be used and most often do not identify the identity of Internet users. Personal data collected through the use of cookies may only be collected to facilitate the user's use. This data is encrypted in a way that prevents unauthorised persons from accessing it.

VII. BLOCK COOKIES.

In general, an application for accessing web pages allows the storage of cookies by default. These settings can be changed so that the automatic management of cookies is blocked by the web browser or the user is informed each time cookies are sent to his terminal. Detailed information on the possibilities and ways of managing cookies can be found in the application settings (on the web browser). Restricting the use of cookies may affect some functions 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", select "Use custom history settings" from the drop-down menu and remove " ";
• in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by opening the "Personalization & Controls" menu and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings"

VIII. Deleting cookies

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

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
• in Firefox (version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then select "Use custom settings for history", click "Show cookies" Cookies;
• in Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies by opening the "Personalization and control" menu and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data" and other data about sites and plug-ins "before clicking on Clear Browsing Data".

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

VIII. Why are cookies important for the internet?

Cookies are a central point for the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to produce a certain pattern of preferences and interests of each user. Disagreeing or disabling cookies may make some sites impossible to use. Rejecting or disabling cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertisements, but that they will no longer appear in your account for favourites and interests collected through the behaviour of browsing. Examples of important roles of cookies (which do not require account authentication):

• Content and services adapted to user preferences - categories of products and services.
• Offers adapted to user preferences - remember passwords.
• Saving child protection filters for Internet content (family mode option, safe search function).
• Limitation of the frequency of use of advertisements - the limitation of the display of an advertisement for a certain user of the site.
• Providing advertisements that would be of interest to the user.
• The measurement, optimization and characteristics of analytics - how to confirm a given level of website traffic, what type of content is displayed and how the user reaches a website (eg: search engines, direct, other websites, etc.). The websites develop these analyses and their use in order to improve the site for the benefit of the users.

IX. Security and privacy.

Cookies are NOT viruses! They use the plain text format. They are not composed of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed, nor can they be executed independently. Therefore, they cannot be duplicated or copied to other networks to run or copy anew. Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses. Cookies can still be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about a user's preferences and browsing history, both on a particular site and on most other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware software are not aware of this fact and constantly mark cookies to be removed during removal / scanning / anti-virus / anti-spyware procedures. Usually browsers have built-in privacy settings that provide different levels of acceptance of cookies, the period of validity and automatic deletion after the user has visited a site. Other security aspects related to cookies: As the protection of personal data is extremely important and represents the right of every Internet user, it is recommended to know the potential problems that cookies can create. Through them, information is constantly and bi-directionally sent between the browser and the website, and in the event that a hacker or other unauthorised person intervenes during the sending of the data, then the information containing cookies can be intercepted. In rare cases, this can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (eg: a wireless network not protected by a password). Another type of cookie-based attack requires wrong cookie settings in the server. If a website does not require the browser to use only encrypted channels, hackers can use this vulnerability to trick browsers into sending information through the unsecured channels. Hackers then use the information to gain unauthorised access to certain websites. It is very important to be careful in choosing the most suitable privacy protection.

X.Tips for safe and responsible cookie-based surfing.

Thanks to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, the latter are almost unavoidable. Deactivating cookies will not allow the user access to the most encountered and used sites, including Youtube, Gmail, Yahoo and others. All modern browsers offer the ability to change cookie settings. These settings are generally found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser, through which you can customise the use of cookies in your browser.

The current version of the Cookie Policy was updated on 02/28/2023.