Cookie Policy
What cookies are and how we use them
1. What are cookies
Cookies are small text files stored in your browser when you visit a website. They allow certain preferences – such as your sign-in session, the contents of your cart or the cookie choices you made – to be remembered, so your visit is smoother and safer. Cookies do not contain viruses, cannot access files on your device, and cannot run programs.
Alongside cookies, wstr.ro also uses browser localStorage (a similar technology that keeps small pieces of data in your browser). For full transparency, localStorage entries are disclosed in this policy in the same way as cookies.
2. How we use cookies
The wstr.ro website uses cookies and localStorage for:
- Signing you in and keeping your session active while you read or listen
- Remembering the items in your shopping cart between visits
- Storing the cookie consent choices you make
- Securing the payment flow against fraud (Stripe, on checkout pages only)
- No statistics or analytics tool is currently used
We do not use advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking cookies.
3. Cookie categories
3.1 Strictly necessary
Essential for the website to function and cannot be disabled: account session, cart, consent record and payment security. Without them, signing in, shopping and reading your purchased stories would not work.
3.2 Functional
Would enable optional comforts such as embedded video previews of the stories. Activated only with your consent. None are currently in use.
3.3 Statistics
Would help us understand how the site is used, exclusively in anonymous, aggregated form. Activated only with your consent. None are currently in use.
3.4 Marketing
Where Stories Take Root does not use marketing cookies, advertising profiling or commercial tracking technologies. The category appears in our settings purely for transparency and stays off.
4. List of cookies used
Every cookie and localStorage entry we set, grouped by category. This table is mirrored in the “Details” tab of the cookie settings window.
Strictly necessary
| Name | Provider | Retention | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID | wstr.ro | Session | Keeps you signed in; links your browser to your account session. |
wstr_cookie_consent | wstr.ro (localStorage) | 12 months | Stores your cookie consent choices and the date you made them. |
siteLoaded | wstr.ro (sessionStorage) | Until the tab is closed | Shows the opening animation only once per visit. |
wstrm_curtain | wstr.ro (sessionStorage) | Until the tab is closed | Remembers that the opening curtain was already shown. |
cart | wstr.ro (localStorage) | Until cleared | Remembers the items in your shopping cart. |
__stripe_mid / __stripe_sid | Stripe (on Stripe’s own payment page, checkout.stripe.com) | 1 year / 30 minutes | Fraud prevention and payment security, set by our payment processor when you pay. |
Functional
By default, wstr.ro loads no external functional services. If embedded story previews (e.g. YouTube) are added, they will activate only after consent for the “Functional” category, and this table will be updated first.
Statistics
No analytics cookies are currently set. If a privacy-friendly analytics solution is introduced, the table will be updated before activation.
Marketing
We use no marketing cookies. This category remains permanently empty on wstr.ro.
5. Third-party services
5.1 Stripe · payment processing (strictly necessary, checkout only)
Payments on wstr.ro are processed by Stripe. On Stripe’s own payment page (checkout.stripe.com), Stripe sets technical cookies (such as __stripe_mid and __stripe_sid) strictly for payment security and fraud prevention – a legal and contractual necessity of accepting card payments. Card details are entered directly on Stripe’s secure infrastructure and never touch our servers. Details: Stripe Privacy Policy.
5.2 Typefaces
Our typefaces (Cormorant Garamond, Quicksand) are stored on and served from wstr.ro itself. Loading them sends no data to Google or any other third party and sets no cookies.
5.3 Future integrations
Should we add embedded videos (story previews), social embeds or analytics, these will be treated as functional or statistics cookies, activated only after your explicit consent, and this page will be updated beforehand.
6. Consent and withdrawal
On your first visit you are shown a cookie banner with three equal choices:
- Accept all · records your agreement to the optional categories. Today this sets no additional cookie, because wstr.ro uses no functional, statistics or marketing cookies; if one is ever added, this page is updated first and we ask again
- Refuse · keeps only strictly necessary cookies (the same result as today’s site)
- Customize · see each category and every cookie, with full details, and choose one by one
Your choice is stored for 365 days, after which you will be asked again. You may withdraw or change your consent at any time – withdrawal is as easy as giving consent – using the small round button at the bottom-left of every page.
7. Managing cookies in your browser
You can also configure or delete cookies directly in your browser:
Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent signing in, keeping a cart and paying. Your library of purchased stories remains safe in your account either way.
8. Your rights
Under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) you have the right to withdraw or modify your consent at any time, to select each category separately, to request access, rectification or erasure of associated personal data, and to lodge a complaint with the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP). Full details are in our Privacy Policy.
ANSPDCP
B-dul G-ral Gheorghe Magheru no. 28-30, Sector 1, Bucharest, 010336, Romania
Telephone: +40 318 059 211
Email: anspdcp@dataprotection.ro · Web: dataprotection.ro
9. Contact
For any question about cookies and data protection:
Imperius Software S.R.L.
Publishing imprint: Editura Micul Stejar
Fiscal code (CUI): 54632820 · Trade Register: J2026029905009 · EUID: ROONRC.J2026029905009
Registered office: Str. Labirint nr. 14, bl. 10, sc. B, et. 1, ap. 8, Timișoara, jud. Timiș, Romania
Website: wstr.ro · Email: contact@wstr.ro · Telephone: +40 720 882 133
10. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated to reflect technical changes or legislative developments. The current version and date appear at the top of the page. Significant changes will be announced by re-displaying the cookie banner, which will ask you to reconfirm your preferences.
Romanian Law no. 506/2004 (privacy in electronic communications) · Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) · ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC · ANSPDCP guidance on cookies.
