Cookie Policy

What is in a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are sent to your browser and stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website to be stored. In this way, the website's server will be able to recognize your device on all of your next visits, as cookies are sent back from your device to the website.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting ('first party cookies') or they may be set by other websites who run content (images, maps, sounds, links to websites of different domains, etc.) on the page you are viewing ('third party cookies') that are located on a different server from the one you are visiting.
In accordance with what is stated in the Privacy Authority Measure of May 8, 2014 "Identification of simplified procedures for the information and the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies" (hereinafter, "Measure"), for cookies installed by third parties, the disclosure and, if appropriate conditions are met, consent requirements burdens on third parties; the owner of the site, as a technical intermediary between third parties and users, is obliged to include in the extended information the links updated to information and links to the third-party consent forms. According to the purpose, cookies can be divided into technical cookies and profiling cookies.
Technical cookies are installed for the sole purpose of "carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service" (see art. 122, no. 196/2003 co. 1 of Decree - cd. Privacy Code - as amended by Legislative Decree no. 69/2012).
They are usually used for an efficient navigation between pages, to store user preferences and information about specific user configurations, to perform user authentication, etc. Technical cookies can be divided into navigation cookies, used to record useful data to normal navigation and use of the website on your computer (allowing, for example, to remember your preferred size of the page for a list) and functional cookies, which allow the web sites to remember user's choices in order to optimize the functionality (for example, functional cookies enable the website to remember a user's specific settings, such as selecting the country and, if set, the status of permanent access). Some of these cookies (called essential or strictly necessary) enable functions without which it would not be possible to carry out some operations. In accordance with the said Article. 122, co. 1, Privacy Code, the use of technical cookies does not require user consent.
To technical cookies are assimilated (and, therefore, as included in the Measure, for its installation, it is not required the user's consent) the so-called analytical cookies, if used by the site operator for the purpose of optimization of the site itself to collect aggregated information on the number of users and how they visit the site.
Profilation cookies are used to track user navigation, analyze his behavior for marketing purposes and create profiles on his tastes, habits, choices, etc. in order to transmit targeted advertising messages in relation to the user's interests and in line with preferences they had manifested during the online navigation. These cookies can be installed on the user's terminal only if this has given its consent to the procedures indicated in the Measure.
Depending on their length, cookies can be permanent (these are known as persistent cookies) when they remain stored on the user's device, unless removed by the latter, or temporary (these are known as session cookies) which are not permanently stored on the device user and disappear when the browser is closed.

Cookies we use on our website

Technical cookies

This site uses technical cookies (functional and navigation), installed by the site itself in order to monitor the functioning of the site and allow efficient navigation on the same.

Analytical cookies

This site also uses analytical cookies to statistically analyze accesses or visits to the site and enable the holder to improve structure, navigation logics and content. These cookies collect aggregated information on the number of users and how they visit the site without being able to identify the individual user. Specifically, the site uses components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). In this case they are "third-party" cookies collected and managed anonymously to monitor and improve the performance of the host site (performance cookies). Google Analytics uses "cookies" to collect and analyze anonymous information about the use of websites behaviors (including user's IP address). The information are collected by Google Analytics, which processes them in order to draw up reports about the activities on the websites themselves. The site does not (and will not allow others to use) the Google analytics tool to track or collect personally identifiable information. Each user can choose to selectively disable the Google Analytics action by installing on its browser the opt-out component provided by Google itself. To disable the action of Google Analytics, please refer to the link below:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Social Network cookies

This site allows users to share content of this site on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. In doing so, however, users have direct access to the sites of these Social Network that set their cookies on their own website. Also in this case they are "third parties" cookies that are governed by the relative information and it is to them that references should be made.

Managing/disabling cookies from your browser

Please note that it is also possible to manage / disable cookies using your browser settings. The setting can be defined specifically for the different sites and web applications. Also the best browsers allow you to define different settings for "owned" cookies and those of "third parties."

  • If you are using Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it

  • If you are using Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie

  • If you are using Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies

  • If you are using Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html

  • If you are using Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=it_IT

If you are using any other browser, search how to manage cookies in "settings".
Update June 2015