Cookie policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website saves in your browser to remember information between pages or between visits, such as your cookie choice. Some are needed for the website to work; others, such as analytics or marketing cookies, may only be used with your consent (Article 4(5) of Romanian Law no. 506/2004).

The hotelartmetropolis.ro website is operated by METROPOLIS CITY ART SRL. How we use personal data is explained in our Privacy policy.

2. Cookies we use

The website’s own cookies, set by hotelartmetropolis.ro:

• cookieadmin_consent (necessary): remembers what you chose in the cookie banner, so that we do not ask you again on every page. Duration: 1 year.
• metropolis_promo (necessary): when there is an offer on the website, remembers that you closed it, so that you do not see it again during the same visit. Duration: until you close the browser.
• wordpress_…, wordpress_logged_in_…, wordpress_test_cookie, wp-settings-… (necessary): only set for the authorised people who manage the website, not for visitors. Duration: until the browser is closed, or up to 1 year.

With your consent to advertising (marketing) cookies, we also use Google Ads, from Google Ireland Limited, to find out how many bookings come from our adverts and to show you relevant adverts. Until you give your consent, the website does not load the Google code at all. What it stores in your browser:

• _gcl_au (advertising): links your visit to the hotel’s Google adverts. Duration: 3 months.
• _gcl_aw (advertising): set only if you reached the website from a Google advert. Duration: 3 months.
• _gcl_ls (advertising, in the browser’s local storage): the same information as _gcl_aw, kept in localStorage. It stays until you delete it from your browser.

Google may also set cookies on its own domains (for example doubleclick.net), under Google’s policy. Data may also reach Google in the USA, with the safeguards of the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. We currently use no analytics cookies; if we start using them, we will add them to this list.

The language of the website comes from the page address (/en/ for English), not from a cookie. Apart from Google Ads, the website does not use the browser’s local storage (localStorage or sessionStorage).

3. Cookies from other websites

• Online bookings are made on the hotel’s booking platform (D-EDGE, at secure-hotel-booking.com), which opens in a new tab. It uses its own cookies, described in its own policy.
• The map (Google Maps), Facebook and Instagram are only links. Their cookies are set only if you open those websites.
• The website does not embed maps, videos or buttons from other websites that set cookies. Fonts and videos are hosted on our own server.

4. Your choice

• On your first visit, the cookie banner lets you choose ‘Accept All’, ‘Reject All’ or ‘Customize’, by category. Necessary cookies work without consent, because the website cannot work properly without them.
• Advertising cookies (Google Ads) are only used if you choose ‘Accept All’ or select them under ‘Customize’.
• Your choice is kept for 1 year. After that, we ask you again.
• You can change your choice at any time from the ‘Cookie settings’ link at the bottom of every page.
• You can delete or block cookies at any time in your browser settings: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. If you block all cookies, the website cannot remember your choice and will ask you again on every visit.

5. Questions

For any question about cookies, write to us at office@hotelartmetropolis.ro. This policy is updated when the cookies we use change; the version in force is the one on this page.