COOKIE POLICY
As indicated in the banner on the home page, this site uses Cookies.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text strings that the sites visited by the user send to his/her terminal (usually to the browser), where they are stored and then retransmitted to the same sites the next time the same user visits. While browsing a site, the user may also receive cookies on his terminal equipment that are sent by different sites or web servers (so-called “third-party cookies”), on which some elements (such as, for example, images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains) present on the site he is visiting may reside. Cookies, which are usually present in users’ browsers in very large numbers and sometimes also with characteristics of wide temporal persistence, are used for different purposes: carrying out computer authentication, session monitoring, storing information on specific configurations concerning users accessing the server, etc.
What are the main types of Cookies?
The measure of 08 May 2014 of the Privacy Guarantor distinguished two macro-categories: ‘technical’ and ‘profiling’ cookies.
- Technical Cookie
Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide such a service”. They are not used for any further purposes and are normally installed directly by the website owner or operator. They can be divided into navigation or session cookies, which ensure the normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate to access restricted areas); analytics cookies, assimilated to technical cookies where they are used directly by the website operator to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site functionality cookies, which allow the user to navigate according to a set of selected criteria (e.g. language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service rendered to the same.
According to current legislation, no prior consent of users is required for the installation of such cookies.
- Profiling Cookies
Profiling cookies are aimed at creating user profiles and are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user while surfing the web. Due to the particular invasiveness that such devices may have in the private sphere of users, European and Italian legislation provides that the user must be adequately informed about the use of such devices and thus express his/her valid consent.
- Session e Persistent Cookies
Session cookies contain information that is used in your current browser session. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. Nothing is stored on your computer beyond the time you use the site. Persistent Cookies are used to retain information that is used in between visits to the website, or used for technical purposes and to improve website navigation. This information allows sites to recognise that you are a known user or visitor and adjust accordingly. Persistent’ cookies have a duration that is set by the website and can vary from a few minutes to several years.
- Cookies of the site owner and third-party cookies
It is necessary to take into account the different entity that installs cookies on the user’s terminal, depending on whether it is the same operator of the site that the user is visiting (which may be briefly referred to as ‘publisher’ or ‘owner’) or a different site that installs cookies through the former (so-called ‘third parties’).
There will therefore be:- Owner’s cookies, created and readable by the site that created them.
- Third-party cookies, which are created and readable from domains outside the site and whose data are stored at the third party
Which cookies this website uses, what their main characteristics are and how to deny consent to each of them
This website may send the user the cookies indicated and briefly described below, for the purposes set out below.
- Owner’s technical cookies: They are used to operate the CMS platform. They do not collect private data, personal or otherwise, and are intended as ‘session’ cookies, i.e. they are removed automatically when the window is closed.
- YouTube
- Main third-party cookies
Managing your cookie preferences also via your browser
You can also manage cookies via your browser. If you do not know the type and version of browser you are using, you can click on ‘Help’ in the browser window at the top, from which you can access all the necessary information.
If, on the other hand, you do know your browser, click on ‘Help’ to access the cookie management page, where you can follow the procedures described here.