Last update date: 28.03.2022
MNDB OOD (hereinbelow MNDB) is a limited liability company, established under the Bulgarian legislation and registered in the Bulgarian Commercial Register and Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities with the Registry Agency under UIC 204951755, with seat and registered office at: 115G Tintyava Str., Office 1, Izgrev Region, 1172 Sofia;
MNDB is the administrator of this Website: www.mndb.eu (hereinafter referred to as the/Website) and any content published on it. This Cookies Policy (hereinafter referred to as the Policy) sets out the various types of cookies that may be used in relation to access to the Website or the provision of our services and the different ways in which you can manage them. We use cookies in order to continuously improve our Website and services and also to provide our current and potential customers with up-to-date information on the services provided by us.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files or tags that are downloaded and stored on your personal computer, mobile device or other terminal device when you visit a certain website. They may be set up by the website administrator or a by an independent third party. They are widely used in order to allow the websites you visit to work in a better and more efficient manner. Websites can read and write these files, enabling them to recognize you and remember your personal preferences and other important information regarding your use of the website that will make your user experience more comfortable – e. g. language, font size, username, etc.
Some cookies, known as “session cookies”, expire at the end of your browser session. Other cookies, known as “persistent cookies”, are stored on your personal computer, mobile device or other terminal device between browser sessions.
We use cookies to determine whether your terminal device has already communicated with our Website. By reading and analyzing the cookie data we can design our Website in order to be easier for use by you.
2. Cookies Management
Most browsers are set by default to accept all cookies; however, the users can set their browser to notify them before the acceptance of cookies, to accept or reject only specific cookies or to refuse all cookies. Users can also delete all cookies from their device at any time. Keep in mind that any changes you make in these settings apply only to the specific browser program in which you have set them up. If you use different browsers or different devices you have to change the settings for each browser and for each device. Please, refer to your browser’s help and/or assistance features for information on how to change the cookies settings and to delete any stored cookies. For more information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage, block or delete them, you may visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
3. What is an Internet Protocol Address (IP address)?
The IP address is a number (a series of digits separated by dots), which is given to your device every time you access the Internet. This number is different depending on the network, which you use to access the Internet (home network, business network – at the office, public network – at the café, at the airport). The IP address allows the devices and the servers on the Internet to recognize each other and to communicate with one another. Without being linked to additional information about you, the IP address cannot identify you as a natural person. It simply provides the opportunity to maintain the communication with your device, while you browse our Website.
4. What data do we collect through our cookies?
When we use our cookies, we receive the IP address of your device, which you use every time you visit our Website. We use your IP address to ensure the functionality and the navigation of the Website, to suit the Website to the specific purposes of users, to improve the users work experience with modules, for the purposes of IT security and for the performance of system diagnostics. We may as well share it with our partners, which help us maintain our Website.
5. How do we use cookies on our Website?
When you visit our Website, we use cookies to ensure that you receive its maximum functionality. These cookies are related to your preferences or your device, through which you visit our Website. In order to ensure that our Website is fully functional, we use the following programs and web features, which may be granted access to your IP address without this access identifying you as a natural person: - google maps
When using our Website, you can agree with the use of cookies, which your selected browser accepts in accordance with the settings you have set, you can personalize which cookies to be used or reject their use entirely. If you refuse to use cookies this may affect the functionality of our Website and your access thereto as well as the services, we can offer. Your choice of cookies made on our Website will be saved upon each visit. In order to save the choice, you have made we will also use a cookie. This means that: if you delete all your cookies, used by our Website you will have to update your preferences upon subsequent visit; and if you use another device or browser you will have to specify your preferences once more.
6. Types of cookies in use
6.1. Necessary (owner’s) cookies (First Party Cookies)
These cookies are used only by us and for that reason are called owner’s cookies. They are set by the server of the visited website and share the same domain with it. These cookies are necessary so that our Website functions as intended and so that a user session can be created and a user group can be set with access to the public resources on the Website (text, images, etc). We use two types of own cookies – session and permanent cookies.
· Session Cookies are stored on your terminal device only for the duration of the current session, during which you are browsing our Website. These cookies take care of showing you such an amount of information that suits your Internet consumption and are responsible for the manner in which our Website is visualized for you (e.g. language, font, color, view, etc.) Through these cookies your decision regarding the use of cookies on our Website is saved as well. You can set your browser settings to alert you about these cookies or to block them entirely; however, some parts of our Website will not function at all or will not function properly. These cookies do not store any personal information and are deleted at the end of the current user session, i.e. after our Website is closed on the relevant device. Our Website uses only one cookie of this type, described below:
Cookie name |
Default expiration time |
Description/Purpose |
PHP |
Session |
This cookie is often associated with embedded content from the domain of the Website and its functionality is to provide consistent functions of the Website across its different pages. The purpose of the cookie is strictly necessary and/or functional. |
· Persistent Cookies are saved on the device of the user for a period of time, specified in advance. On our Website we use persistent cookies in order to show you the dialog window that appears when you first access the Website and that wants your consent for our Website to store and use cookies on your device. These cookies are deleted automatically after 365 days.
Necessary cookies cannot be turned off by our systems. Usually they are set only in response to your actions, representing a request for services such as setting your privacy preferences, system login or filling in contact forms.
6.2. Functional cookies
These cookies allow our Website to provide you with improved functionality and personalization. They can be set by us or by third parties, whose services we have added to our Website. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalized use of our Website on the basis of your previous visits and choices. Upon refusal of these cookies it is possible that some services may not function properly.
6.3. Analytical cookies
We use such cookies in order to analyze and identify the behavior of our Website’s visitors. We track the IP address of the device you use in order to identify you when you visit our Website the next time. Whenever possible, we combine the data regarding your online behavior with personal data, which you have provided us with before. These data will be used for the analysis of your behavior on our Website.
6.4. Marketing and Targeting Advertisement Cookies
Google Analytics cookies collect general statistical data with the aim of improving the performance and navigation of our Website. Google supplements these general data with demographic data and information on the interests of visitors in order for us to better understand their needs.
These cookies can be set through our Website by our partners in the field of advertising. They may be used by these partners in order for them to build a profile of your interests and to show you appropriate advertisements of other websites. This is based on the unique identification of your browser and device, which you use when accessing websites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will receive less targeted advertisements. Such cookies used on our Website are:
Cookie name |
Default expiration time |
Description/Purpose |
_gat_gtag |
1 minute |
This cookie is often used to throttle request rate when browsing the Website and store a unique user ID. The main purposes of the cookie can be targeting, advertising and/or statistics. |
_ga |
2 years |
This cookie is generally used to distinguish between different users of the Website, as well as to store and count pageviews. The main purposes of the cookie are performance and/or statistics. |
_gid |
24 hours |
This cookie is also used to distinguish between different users and to store and count their pageviews but for short-term purposes. The main purposes of this cookie are again performance and/or statistics. |
6.5. Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are usually stored on domains different than the domain of our Website. This may happen when our Website links to a file, e.g. JavaScript file, which is located outside its domain. Those are persistent cookies and will be deleted automatically after 2 years if you do not visit a website again.
For instance, the cookies of most social networks are such cookies. On our website we do not use cookies of any social networks.
7. Changes in the Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy can be changed and updated in order to reflect our development, the development of our services and/ or the technological progress. A notification for such change will be made as an update of the Cookies Policy and by specifying the date of its last relevant update. We encourage our users to regularly review the current Cookies Policy on our Website.