COOKIE POLICY
This site utilizes cookies, including third-party cookies, so as to improve the browsing experience and enable people surfing the Net to make use of our online services.
The present policy on cookies ought to be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which we kindly invite you to consult so as to get additional information on what we do and what we do not do with your personal data.If you keep on browsing our site, you thereby consent to the utilization of cookies.
The cookies utilized on this site fall within the categories described hereunder.
WHAT COOKIES ARE
Cookies are small text files sent by websites and memorized on your PC, tablet, smartphone or other mobile device. They contain basic information on surfing the Net, and, thanks to the browser, they are recognized whenever the user visits the site. Cookies might be either first-party cookies if they are set by the visited site, or third party cookies if sent by a different site from the visited one.
MANAGEMENT OF COOKIES
Technical cookies
This type of cookies enables the correct operation of some sections of the website. They are of two categories, persistent and session cookies:
– persistent cookies: once the browser is closed they are not destroyed, but remain there until a predetermined expiry date or until the user removes them;
– session cookies: they are destroyed whenever the browser is closed.
These cookies are necessary to correctly visualize the site and also in respect of the technical services offered, unless the user modifies his browser settings.
The technical cookies are utilized for the following activities:
a) Activities strictly necessary to the operation. These cookies are technical in nature and enable the site to operate correctly. For example, they keep the user connected while browsing, thereby preventing the site from connecting more than once in order to access the various website pages or sections.
b) Preferences-saving activities. These cookies make it possible to remember the preferences selected by the user during the browsing, by for instance enabling the language to be set.
c) Statistical and audience Measurement activities. These cookies help us understand, through data collected in an anonymous and aggregate fashion, how users interact with our Internet site by supplying us with information pertaining to the visited sections, the time span spent on the site, and possible malfunctions. That helps us improve the performance of our Internet site.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
We make use of suppliers who might in turn install cookies for the correct operation of the services they are providing, which we have no control upon. If you wish to get information pertaining to these third-party cookies and how to disable them, we kindly request you to access the under-mentioned connecting links with regard to any third-party cookies.
INFORMATION ON UTILIZED COOKIES
Name of the cookie: _utma
Purpose: it is used in order to distinguish user and session.
Expiry: after 2 years
Third party: Yes (Google Analytics), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: _gat
Purpose: This cookie collects information on how users utilize a website, for example, the fact that pages are visited more frequently, through data collected in an anonymous and aggregate fashion. Information that identifies a visitor is not collected.
Expiry: after 10 minutes
Third party: Yes (Google Analytics), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: cookie_notice_accepted
Purpose: it records the acceptance to continue browsing through the site after clicking on “Accept” in the short information banner
Expiry: 1 month
Third party: no
Name of the cookie: GEUP
Purpose: Used by Youtube – Google in order to monitor the use of its own services
Expiry: after 2 years
Third party: Yes (Youtube – Google), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: NID
Purpose: Cookie Google NID, utilized by Youtube for the sake of non-personal data that might however allow a tracing
Expiry: after 6 months
Third party: Yes (Youtube – Google), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: PREF
Purpose: Cookie Google PREF, utilized by Youtube for the sake of non-personal data that might however allow a tracing
Expiry: after 8 months
Third party: Yes (Youtube – Google), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: necessary cookie to keep track of the sharing of Youtube videos integrated into the pages of our site. Unique identifier that enables an analysis of visitors. The data are utilized only in an aggregate fashion.
Expiry: after 8 months
Third party: Yes (Youtube – Google), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: YSC
Purpose: Technical cookie enabling us to incorporate our videos that are hosted on the Youtube server
Expiry: When the browsing session ends
Third party: Yes (Youtube – Google), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: remote_sid
Purpose: Technical cookie enabling us to incorporate our videos that are hosted on the Youtube server
Expiry: When the browsing session ends
Third party: Yes (Youtube – Google), link to Google’s privacy policy >>>
Name of the cookie: mc
Purpose: This cookie is set by Quantserve and is related to advertising activities and can track user behavior on the site
Expiry: After 1 year
Third party: Yes (quantserve), link to quantserve privacy policy >>>
It is possible at any moment to disable the cookies present on the browser; we wish to remind you that this option might limit many of the browsing functionalities of the website.
SOCIAL BUTTONS
On our websites, there are special “buttons”(called “social buttons/widgets”) that symbolize social network icons (for example, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.) and additional websites (Google+, Slideshare, etc.). Such buttons enable users browsing through the sites to interact via a “click” directly with the social networks and the other websites thus symbolized. In that event, the social networks and the other websites acquire the data pertaining to the user’s visit, whereas the Data Controller will share no browsing information or data about the user acquired through his own site with the social networks or the other accessible websites, thanks to its Social buttons/widgets.
INSTRUCTIONS ON DISABLING COOKIES BY BROWSERS
disabling of cookies on Firefox
disabling of cookies on Chrome
disabling of cookies on Internet Explorer
disabling of cookies on Safari
disabling of cookies on Opera
If you use any other browser, check the cookies management modalities in the browser settings.
To know more about cookies management on the mobile device browser, you can consult the specific user manual. You can also find additional information on cookies and how to manage them by consulting the www.aboutcookies.org website.
Moreover, by accessing the page http://www.youronlinechoices.com/, it is possible to get information on behavioural advertising, as well as to disable or enable the listed companies that work together with the website managers in order to gather and utilize information facilitating the use of advertising.