Cookies
30 August 2026What changed on 30 August 2026
English translation provided for convenience. The Romanian version prevails in case of any discrepancy. Until today this page said the site writes a single cookie, for the language, and measures nothing. That is no longer true: from today the site can load Google Analytics — but only if you choose so. I rewrote this page on the same day I turned measurement on, not after, because in between the page would have been lying.
Two cookies that do not ask your permission
The first is named NEXT_LOCALE and holds two letters, “ro” or “en” — the language of the page you are on. The second is named rzs_consent and holds your answer from the consent dialog, as a version and two digits. Neither says who you are. The law requires consent for cookies that track you or that are not necessary; one that remembers your language and one that remembers you said no are the exact opposite.
What does not happen before you accept
Nothing. No Google script is downloaded, no request goes to it, none of its cookies is written. This is not a polite formulation: most sites load the tag immediately, in “cookieless mode”, and still send signals. Here the script does not reach the page until you press “Accept”. You can check this in the developer tools, the Network tab, filtering for “googletagmanager” — before you accept, the list is empty.
What loads if you accept
Google Analytics 4, and nothing else. It writes two cookies, _ga and one starting with _ga_, lasting up to two years, holding a random number by which your browser is recognised as the same one on a second visit. From those I know which pages get read, how long people stay and where they come from. They do not know your name, they give me no access to what you typed into a form, and I buy no data about you from anyone.
I have no advertising cookies
There is no Facebook pixel, no Google Ads tag, no social network buttons. Those are usually the main source of tracking on a company website — even if you never click them. If I ever start paid campaigns and need something like that, this page changes first, and you are asked again: the answer you gave now was to a different question.
How you refuse, and how simple it is
“Reject all” is a button, next to “Accept all”, the same size and just as visible. One click, done. You do not have to open settings, you do not have to untick anything, and the dialog does not come back on the next page: a refusal is remembered exactly like an acceptance. If this insistence seems excessive, it is because the opposite pattern — a coloured “Accept” and a “Reject” buried three clicks deep — is the single most fined thing in European online advertising.
How you change your mind
At the bottom of every page there is a button, “Cookie settings”. Press it, the same dialog opens, choose differently. The effect is immediate for whatever loads from then on. Cookies already written by Google stay in your browser until you delete them — I cannot delete them remotely — but they go away from your browser settings, under site data.
How long your answer lasts
Six months. After that the dialog returns once, to reconfirm. This is not a trick to catch you on a busier day: European guidance requires consent to be asked again periodically, precisely because a “yes” from three years ago says nothing about what you want now.
Where the data goes
Google is an American company and processes data in the United States as well. The transfer relies on the EU–US adequacy framework, to which Google is certified. I cannot promise you more than that: if this is a problem for you, refuse — the site works identically, and I am the one left without a statistic, not you without a page.
How to verify everything here yourself
Open the developer tools, the Application tab, the Cookies section. Before you answer you should see only NEXT_LOCALE. After you refuse, NEXT_LOCALE and rzs_consent, and nothing else. After you accept, the Google ones appear too, with the names above. If you see anything else, that is a mistake of mine and I want to hear about it.