Privacy policy

Information on the collection of personal data and contact details of the data controller

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified.

The controller of data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is The National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics - INOE 2000, 409 Atmostilor St., Magurele, Ilfov County, Romania, tel. +40 314 056 398, e-mail: certo@inoe.ro. The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or enquiries to the person responsible). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

Data collection when visiting our website

During the mere informational use of our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you call up our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

  • • Our visited website
  • • Date and time at the time of access
  • • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • • Source/reference from which you reached the page
  • • Browser used
  • • Operating system used
  • • IP address used (if applicable: in anonymised form)

The data is not passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

Cookies

In order to make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your terminal device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable your browser to be recognized the next time you visit (so-called persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data and IP address values to an individual extent. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may differ depending on the cookie. The duration of the respective cookie storage can be found in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser.

Use of copyright materials

Use of iStock photos: This website uses photos from iStockphoto LP, Getty Images, Suite 313 - 1240 20th Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 1M8, Canada. iStock photos were purchased with a royalty-free license that gives us the rights to use those photos in a wide variety of uses, including: advertising, publishing, websites, blogs and presentations.

Use of logo images of brands and trademarks: This website displays in certain pages logo images of different brands and trademarks for editorial or information purposes only. The use of this logo images is not associated with or sponsored by the trademark owner.