We use cookies to make our website easier and more intuitive. Collected data due to the cookies are needed to make the surfing experience more appealing and more efficient in the future.
What are the cookies?
Cookies are little text files sent from the site to the person concerned terminal (usually to the browser), where they are memorized to be sent again to the site at the next visit of the same user. A cookie cannot recall any other data from the user’s hard disk nor sent worms or get e-mail addresses. Each cookie is unique for the user’s web browser. Some of cookie’s functions can be transferred to other technologies. In this document the term “cookie” refers both to the cookie, correct in the strictest sense of the word, and to all similar technologies.
Type of cookie
There can be first or third party cookie, meaning the “first part” cookies the cookie stating as a domain the website, while the “third part” cookie are the cookies referring to external domains.
Third party cookie are necessarily installed by an external subject, always defined “third party”, non-managed by the website. These subjects can also possibly install “first party” cookie, saving theirs on the domain of the website.
Another type of cookie are the so called “Flash Cookie” (Local Share Objects), used inside Adobe Flash Player to provide some contents, as video clips or animation, in order to remember personal settings and preferences. Flash cookie are filed on the device, but are managed through an interface which is different from the one provided by the used browser.
Cookies Nature
As far as their nature is concerned, there are several types of cookie
Technical cookie
Technical cookie are used just in order to “realize the transmission of a communication on an electronic communication web, or to the extent strictly necessary to a provider of the information society specifically requested by the subscriber or by the user to provide this service (art. 122, paragraph 1, of the Code)
They are not used for further purposes and are usually installed by the owner himself or by the manager of the website. They could be divided into:
- Surfing or session cookie, that guarantee normal web surfing and the use of the website (allowing, for example, a purchase or the authentication to enter in reserved areas); they are actually necessary for the website proper functioning;
- Analytics cookie, similar to the technical cookie if used directly by the web master to get information, in aggregate form, about the amount of users and how they visit the website, in order to improve site performances;
- Feature cookie, that allow the user web surfing, according to some pre-selected criteria (e.g., language, selected products for the purchase) in order to improve the service. For these cookie’s installation user’s prior consent isn’t requested (further information in the paragraph below, cookie’s administration)
Profiling cookie
Profiling cookie are used to create user profiles and to send advertising messages according with user’s chosen preferences for his web surfing.
In order to use profiling cookies subject consent is requested. According to the law (further information in the paragraph below, cookie’s administration) user can authorize or deny his consent to cookie’s installation through options provided in “Cookie’s administration” section.
In case of third party cookies, the website does not have a direct control of every single cookie and it cannot check them (it cannot either install or cancel them). You can still manage these cookies by browser’s set up (follow the instructions below) or by the websites suggested in “Cookie’s administration” section.
Therefore, user is invited to check in third party’s website indicated in the table below
Cookies installed on this website
Here is the list of cookies (assembled logically in terms of functionality or provider) on this website. Third party cookies have a link to the privacy information of the external provider, where it is possible to find a detailed description of every single cookie and their purpose.
List of the technical cookies on this website:
Google Analytics
It is a monitoring cookie for statistic generation about website use. Adobe Analytics uses cookie which do not memorize personal data and which are stored in user’s computer to allow the web master to analyze the way website is used.
Facebook uses cookie to offer the user sharing and “like” features on his homepage. Further information at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Twitter uses cookie to offer the user sharing features on his own wall. Further information at http://suport.twitter.com/articles/20170519 and https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=it
Google+
Google+ uses cookie to offer the user sharing features on his own wall.
Further information at
http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/
System cookie
This site uses cookie in order to guarantee the user a better web surfing experience; these cookie are essential for the correct website fruition. You can enable these cookies from the browser following the instructions in the specific paragraph, but you will compromise your experience on the website and we will not be able to handle malfunctions.
Cookie’s duration
Cookies have a duration imposed by their expiry date (or by a specific action, like browser’s closure) set up at the moment of the installation
Cookies can be:
- Momentary or session cookies: they are used to file temporary information, they allow you to connect actions that took place during a specific session and are removed from the computer at the browser closure;
- Persistent cookie: they are used to file information, for example name and login password, in order to avoid the user to digit them again every time he visit a specific site.
They remain memorized even after the browser’s closure.
Cookie management
Due to the rules of the Personal Data Protection Code (d.lg. June 30th 2003, n. 196) and, in particular, art 13, chapter 3and 122, chapter 1 and concerning the injunction of identification of simplified ways for the information and acquisition of consent to cookie’s use- May 8th (Published on Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 126, June 3rd 2014)
If the consent has already been given but you want to change cookie’s authorizations, you have to cancel them through the browser, because otherwise the ones already installed will not be removed. In particular, it must be pointed out that is not possible to check third party cookies, so if the consent has already been given previously, it is necessary to continue with cookie’s cancellation through the browser (dedicated section) or asking the “opt-out” directly to third parties or through the website.