Legal
Cookies policy.
What the Metaminds website stores on your device, and why.
Last updated: 28 September 2026
In short
- Our website sets only one cookie: a strictly necessary technical cookie that our web servers use to route your requests. It contains no personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.
- We do not use analytics, advertising, tracking or social-media tools, and we do not build visitor profiles.
- The EN / RO language switch is a plain link between the English and the Romanian pages. It stores nothing in your browser.
- A few pages show YouTube videos. The YouTube player is provided by Google. It loads only when you press play, and it may then store its own data in your browser.
- The contact and careers forms send your details to us only when you submit them.
This policy is published by Metaminds S.A., with its registered office in Bucharest, Aviatorilor 54, 011864, sector 1, Romania, and applies to www.metaminds.com.
Cookies and
local storage
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep and send back on later visits. Local storage and IndexedDB are similar browser features that let a page keep small amounts of data on your device; unlike cookies, they are not sent to the server with each request.
EU privacy rules (the ePrivacy Directive, implemented in Romania by Law no. 506/2004) cover all of these technologies in the same way. Storing information on your device needs your consent unless it is strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for.
What is
stored
Our web servers set one strictly necessary cookie; apart from it, the pages of this website do not store anything on your device themselves. The table lists everything that can be stored while you browse the website.
| Name | Set by | Stored in | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32-character technical identifier | Metaminds (web server load balancer) | Browser cookie | Set by our web servers to route your requests to the same server during your visit, so the website loads reliably. Strictly necessary; it contains no personal information. | Session (deleted when you close the browser) | First party |
| yt-*, ytidb::*, YtIdbMeta | YouTube (www.youtube-nocookie.com) | Local storage and IndexedDB | Written by the embedded YouTube player after you press play on a video, to run the player (for example caption settings and the player’s internal records). | Set by YouTube; until you clear your browser data | Third party |
Your language choice is not saved anywhere: the EN / RO switch simply opens the same page in the other language, and every page address already shows its language.
Embedded
YouTube videos
These pages include a YouTube video player:
- Event: Cloud Native Days Romania 2025
- Event: Cloud Native Days Romania 2026
- Press: În fața ta with Ovidiu Ghiman
- Press: Observability, a necessity
- Press: Temerarii show with Andrei Cruceru
We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Until you press play, a page shows only a still image stored on our own server, and nothing is loaded from Google. When you press play, your browser loads the player from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address and technical details about your browser; the video is streamed from Google, Google records playback statistics, and the player may store the data listed in the table above. Google states that views in privacy-enhanced mode are not used to personalise your YouTube experience.
Google Ireland Limited processes this data under its own privacy policy, available at policies.google.com/privacy. If you prefer not to load the player, do not press play; the rest of the page and of the website works normally.
Contact and
careers forms
The form on the contact page and the application form on the careers page send the details you enter to us only when you press the submit button. Filling in the forms does not store anything on your device. How we handle the data we receive is described in our data privacy policy.
Server
logs
Like any website, our web server receives your IP address and basic request details (page address, time, browser type) when you load a page. This is needed to deliver the page and keep the service secure. It does not involve storing anything on your device. How we handle personal data in general is described in our data privacy policy.
Removing
stored data
The technical cookie is deleted automatically when you close your browser. You can remove the data listed above at any time by clearing the site data for this website and for youtube-nocookie.com in your browser settings. In most browsers this is under Settings → Privacy → Cookies and site data. Browsing in a private window also removes it when the window is closed.
Changes to
this policy
If we add anything that stores data on your device, such as website analytics, we will update this policy first and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent before anything is stored. The date at the top of this page shows when the policy last changed.
Contact
For questions about this policy or about your personal data, contact Metaminds S.A.: