Cookie Policy

Cookies consist of short fragments of text (letters and/or numbers), stored on your computer or on all other devices used for navigation, such as tablets or smartphones, when you visit a website that uses them. They allow the web server to store on the browser you use, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc., any useful information that allows users to be recognised during subsequent visits, in order to improve the service offered to them. Cookies can also be re-used during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even after days (persistent cookies). A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from the user's hard disk nor transmit computer viruses or acquire email addresses. Each cookie is unique to the user's web browser. Some of the functions of cookies may be obtained from other technologies. The term “cookie” refers to cookies and all similar technologies.

Based on the features and use of cookies, we may distinguish several types:

Technical cookies

They are essential for the proper operation of a website. They are used to manage various services related to websites (such as login or access to specific user functions on websites). They are not used for any other purposes and are usually installed by the website owner or administrator. They may be divided into:

Profiling cookies

Profiling cookies are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user while browsing the site. Due to their particular intrusiveness into private user data, the law requires that the user must be adequately informed about their use and express their consent. They are referred to in Art. 122 of the Code, which says: "the storage of information in the terminal device of a contractor or a user or access to information already filed is allowed only on condition that the contractor or the user has given their consent after being informed by the simplified procedures referred to in Article 13, paragraph 3” (Article 122 paragraph 1 of the Code). In the same provision, the Data Protection Authority has also categorised cookies depending on the subject operating as data controller of personal data collected by the cookie, distinguishing between first-party cookies and third-party cookies.

First-party cookies

They are cookies managed by the site owner. The site owner is obliged to provide the respective cookie notice. The latter is also obliged to indicate the methods for blocking cookies.

Third-party cookies

They are cookies managed by a third party other than the site owner. The third party is obliged to provide the respective cookie notice and indicate the methods for the possible blocking of cookies, while the site owner is obliged to insert in the site the link to the site of the third party where such elements are available.

Google Analytics cookie (Google)
Google analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. that uses the data collected in order to track and examine the use of this site, compile reports and share them with other services developed by Google. Google may use the data collected to contextualise and customise the advertisements of its advertising network. Data collected: usage data Storage time: around one year (it is not possible to know beforehand) Origin: it is considered a third party cookie, since it is downloaded from Google Inc. servers (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States)

Google Maps cookie
These cookies download certain Google tools and can store certain preferences, such as the number of search results, and customise the ads displayed in Google search. Data collected: usage data Storage time: from 1 to 24 months, depending on the type Source: it is is considered a third party cookie, since it is downloaded from the servers of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States)

AddThis cookie
AddThis is a technology company that allows websites and users to easily share content with others, through exchange icons and social bookmarking sites. These services allow interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the application pages. Cookies are used to enable content sharing. AddThis is also used to fill in information on how the contents of the website are shared. In the case in which a social network interaction service is installed, it is possible that even if users do not use the service, it will collect traffic data relating to the pages in which it is installed. More information about AddThis cookies at http: //goo.gl/Luj7Ys
Data collected :usage data
Storage time: from cookies that disappear at the end of the session up to cookies that persist for 24 months depending on the type.
Source: third party - addthis.com | AddThis (1595 Spring Hill Road Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, United States.

MODIFYING COOKIE SETTINGS

The Help section of the user's browsers should be able to help manage cookie settings. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may modify your browser to be informed when they are sent. It is also possible to delete at any time any cookies that have already been stored via your browser settings. Nonetheless, permanently disabling cookies may result in browsing difficulties or, sometimes, the inability to use certain website features. Please see below the ways to disable cookies for the most used browsers. To set cookies, in browsers other than those listed, please refer to the help documentation prepared by the browser manufacturer.

Internet Explorer: