COOKIE POLICY
Drawn up pursuant to Art. 6 and Art. 7 of Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection
This policy explains how the official website of XPLANE RESEARCH SRL and any online respondent recruitment platforms use cookies and similar technologies.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website, used to remember information about the visit.
2. Categories of cookies used
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Basic operation of the website (security, session) | No |
| Performance/analytics | Measuring traffic and how the website is used | Yes |
| Functional | Remembering browsing preferences | Yes |
| Marketing (if applicable) | Personalising promotional content | Yes |
3. Consent mechanism
On the first visit to the website, the visitor is shown a consent banner for non-essential cookies, which allows accepting, refusing or individually configuring the cookie categories, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) and Art. 7 of Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection. Refusing non-essential cookies does not affect the basic functionality of the website.
4. Withdrawing consent
Consent may be withdrawn at any time by changing the settings in the cookie banner (available through a permanent link in the website footer) or in your own browser settings.
5. Final provisions
Art. 6. Unilateral amendment of this document. XPLANE RESEARCH SRL, as personal data controller, reserves the right to amend, supplement or update this document unilaterally whenever this is necessary in order to: (a) ensure compliance with applicable legislative changes, including Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection and its implementing regulations; (b) reflect changes in the controller’s activity, organisational structure, technologies used, categories of clients served or research/data collection methods; (c) implement recommendations or decisions of the National Center for Personal Data Protection; (d) improve the technical and organisational security measures applied to processing.
Amendments take effect from the date the updated version is published or communicated, by posting it on the official website of XPLANE RESEARCH SRL and/or by notifying data subjects directly where the law requires such prior notice, in accordance with Art. 12–14 of Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection. Continuing contractual relations, cooperation or interaction with XPLANE RESEARCH SRL after the updated version is published constitutes acknowledgement of the amendments.
This right of unilateral amendment does not affect the rights acquired by data subjects in respect of processing carried out before the amendment and may not be exercised so as to restrict the minimum safeguards provided by law in favour of the data subject.
Art. 7. Final provisions. This document has been drawn up in accordance with Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection, in force since 23.08.2026, and enters into force on the date of its approval by the director of XPLANE RESEARCH SRL.
Should any inconsistency be found between this document and the applicable legal provisions, the legal provisions prevail, and the document shall be adapted accordingly within the shortest reasonable time, without any prior consultation procedure being required.
Date of approval: 01.09.2026