Cookies Policy

In our site www.footlocker.ro we use Cookies.

Under the present policy we provide you with more information about how we use “cookies” as well as other automated means, in order to collect specific information in relation to the guests of our websites, such as the number of the guests of our webpages, as well as the most visited subpages of www.footlocker.ro via any browser and device used. Through the collection of this information we learn how we can better adjust our webpages and our advertisement to the guests. 

Cookies and other Automated Means for the Collection of Data

Cookies are short software texts stored in any of your devices through the use of any kind of browser, whenever you visit a webpage. We may use cookies in order to get information, for example, about whether you have visited our webpage in the past or whether you are a new guest, as well as to help us locate features of our webpage, in which you may be more interested. The cookies may improve your web-experience by saving your preferences, as you are visiting a specific webpage.

Web Beacons

Web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs) are usually transparent graphic images placed in a webpage. The Web beacons are used in combination with the cookies, in order to record the acts of the guests in the websites.

IP address and URLs

The IP address is a unique locator used by certain electronic devices for the purpose of being located and communicating with each other in the Web. When you visit our webpages, we can see the IP address of the device you have used in order to connect to the web (internet).  We use this information in order to specify the general geographic location of the device and comprehend from which geographic areas the guests of our webpage are coming. We can use this information in order to change the presentation method of our webpage in order to improve your visit.

The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique locator or address of any means in the web (internet) and it is actually the address of the webpage you are visiting. We will use this information in order to see which webpages are most visited as well as the way you are navigating in our webpage.

Which Cookies are we using?

In our webpages we are using the following categories of cookies:

Absolutely necessary cookies

The absolutely necessary cookies are of utmost importance for the proper operation of www.footlocker.ro, since they allow you to browse and use the basic functions of this webpage, such as access to secure areas, registration forms, list of favourites, use of the purchase basket and for security reasons. Without these cookies, we are not capable of offering an effective operation of our website and of our e-shop. In the cookies settings you can be informed of which exactly are the absolutely necessary cookies we use.

Performance cookies and Cookies for Analytics

These cookies shall collect information in relation to the way in which the guests and the registered users use the website www.footlocker.ro,  the IP address, the access time and duration, the browsing program, which pages are more frequently visited and whether they receive error messages from webpages. They are exclusively used for the improvement of the performance of a webpages and allow us to collect information about the use of our webpages by you (their users), including the content you select during your browsing in our webpages, in order to measure the effectiveness and the interaction of the consumers with the webpage as well as to improve it. These cookies may be provided to us by third providers of analytic tools but they are used only for the purposes related to our webpages (eg: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs).

In the cookies settings you can be informed about which exactly performance cookies and cookies for analytics we use, and declare if you consent to their installation. Since you are also using other Google services, it is possible that these data may undergo a combined processing by Google for the making of your profile as a user with the purpose of individualised advertisement display. We have no option of exercising control and influence in relation to Google methods and policies as regards your data processing on Google’s behalf. More information about the processing policy of your data by Google can be found here Googleprivacy policy and about the use of cookies in the framework of Google Analytics service here.

Important notice: In July 2020 the Court of the European Union (CEU) has declared void the decision of the European Commission 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the European Union - United States of America Privacy Shield (known as Privacy Shield). Until the issue of this decision, the transmission of personal data to the USA, among other things also the transmission in the case of Google Analytics, was based on this adequacy decision. This processing is currently based on the standardised privacy clauses by Google (article 46 of the GDPR), and, alternatively, on your explicit consent, in accordance with the terms of article 49 par.1 lit.b of the GDPR, given that there is no adequacy decision. Further, in your capacity as data subjects you should know that your metadata may be used by Google for the creation of a profile and be transmitted to its computers in the USA, to which the competent public prosecution authorities and the national security authorities may request and acquire access, pursuant to the statutory framework of the USA.

Moreover if you accept these cookies, we shall be capable of informing you about products left in your basket and which you have not yet purchased or found in your favourites’ list via an automated communication by email, web push (notifications displayed in the browser) & SMS, according to your selected options for commercial communication.

Targeting / Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used for the provision of content that better matches your interests. They can be used for the sending of targeted advertising/offers, the restriction of broadcasts of advertising programmes or the measurement of the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These cookies may also be used in order for you to “remember” the websites you have visited, so that we can specify which electronic marketing channels are the most effective and allow us to reward external webpages and partners who have forwarded you to us.

In the cookies settings you can be informed about which exactly targeting/marketing cookies we use and declare whether you consent to their installation.

How can you deactivate the Use of Cookies?

In case you desire to activate or deactivate the use of cookies from the settings of your browser, depending on the type of your browser, you shall visit the following webpages, in order to become aware of the required relevant steps

Internet Explorer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835Firefox http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-storedChrome http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=enOpera http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/Safari http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042Safari for iPad and iPhone http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677

Social Plug-ins, Buttons Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest etc.: You may use them, if you want. These buttons are links to website of third parties that collect and process personal data according to their policies. We are not responsible about these websites and you should first be informed about their own personal data processing policies. We have made these additions in order to make our webpage www.footlocker.ro more effective for its guests, as well as in order to advertise the business activity and our services in case you voluntarily share our content in the respective websites. We consider it as our legal interest to appear on these social media and try promote our products and services. If you have declared your preference in our page (e.g. in case you have “liked” our page) or you have “followed” us in any e-service of any social network, this means, according to the policies of the respective social networks, that you will see messages, advertisements or any material published bu us in our page in the respective social network, as well as that we shall know your public profile in the relevant service. If you make a question via the respective page or make a post, this will be visible to all our “friends"and “followers" in the specific social network and we may use the options provided by the same network in order to respond to you. Ιf you send personal or direct messages to us (PM or DM) you should be aware of the fact that anything contained in these messages could be read, on a case-by-case basis, both by the employees of FOOT LOCKER ROMANIA ATHLETIC GOODS LTD and by third parties as well, to whom we have assigned the management of our presence in the electronic social networks.  You should not upload in our relevant pages nor send to us messages with insulting or illegal content and you should not share with us personal data of third parties, provided you have not obtained their valid consent for this purpose. Moreover, you should not upload in our relevant pages nor use these communication media in order to send to us any sensitive (special category) data or minors’ data, because we cannot ensure the safety and the restriction of the respective access. Any upload, post or personal message that does not comply with these restrictions, shall be erased, whereas the user’s data may be forwarded to the competent authorities, provided his/her upload/post or his/her personal message constitutes an unlawful act as well.   

Links to websites and applications of third parties: the website www.footlocker.ro may include links to websites and applications of third parties. By clicking in these links or by activating these links, third parties may be allowed to collect or communicate data relating to the user. FOOT LOCKER ROMANIA ATHLETIC GOODS LTD does not control these websites of third parties and shall bear no responsibility for their confidentiality statements and the processing of personal data performed by them. In case that the guest leaves the website www.footlocker.ro, FOOT LOCKER ROMANIA ATHLETIC GOODS LTD recommends the reading of the confidentiality statement in any website he/she visits. The display of such websites and applications of third parties in the website www.footlocker.ro is based on the legal interest of FOOT LOCKER ROMANIA ATHLETIC GOODS LTD to pursue the improvement of its services and the development of its business activity and the interaction of its webpage with the relevant platforms and services in the web.