Cookie Policy

Cookies are text files containing a minimum amount of information sent to your browser and stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device of the user every time you visit a web site. Each link of the cookies, refer to the information at the reference site.

Cookies can be permanent (persistent cookies) if they remain on your computer until you delete them, or temporary (session cookies) if they are deactivated when the browser is closed. Cookies can also be first party cookies if they are set by the website visited, or third-party cookies if placed by a website other than the one visited.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to improve the functionality of our site, allow the user to move easily between the pages, remember your preferences, and to ensure that the user browsing experience is always optimal.

The cookies used and their purpose

Cookies used on our websites can be categorized as follows (see the guide to cookies issued by the ICC, International Chamber of Commerce):

The strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to allow the user to move around the site and use the services requested, such as access to secure areas of the website.

The strictly necessary cookies are first party cookies and can be permanent or temporary. We use this type of cookie to handle the registration and access by users. Without these cookies you may not access the services requires, and our site will not function correctly.

Performance cookies:

Performance cookies collect information about the use of the website by the users, such as for example which pages are visited most often. These cookies do not store personally identifying individual visitors, but only aggregated and anonymous.

We use these cookies to:

  • for statistical purposes, to understand how they use our sites
  • measure the distribution of our advertising campaigns.

These cookies may be permanent or temporary, first-or third-parties. In essence, these cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited, and the ads displayed.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow the site to remember the choices visitors (such as user name, language or the Country of access) and provide enhanced, more personalised. The functionality cookies can also be used to provide services requested by the user, such as access to a video, or the insertion of a comment to a blog. The information used by these cookies is anonymous and can not track user navigation on other sites.

We use these cookies to:

  • remember if a particular service has already been provided to the user
  • improve the general experience on the site by remembering user preferences.

These cookies may be temporary or permanent, first or third party. In essence, these cookies remember individual choices made by the user to improve their browsing experience.

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to limit the number of times an advertisement to the user and to monitor the distribution of the advertising campaigns.

The advertising cookies are used to manage the advertising on the site.

The advertising cookies are placed by third parties, such as advertisers and their agents, and can be permanent or temporary. In practice, they are related to advertising services provided by third parties on our website.

Other cookies of third parties

Visiting a website you may receive cookies both from the visited site (“owners”) and from sites managed by other organizations (“third parties”). A notable example is represented by the presence of “social plugins” for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. They are parts of the visited page generated directly by the aforementioned sites and integrated into site page host. The most common use of social plugin is aimed at sharing content on social networks.

The presence of these plugins involves the transmission of cookies to and from all sites operated by third parties. The management of the information collected by “third parties” shall be governed by the relevant information which please refer. To ensure greater transparency and convenience, below are the web addresses of the various information and how to manage cookies.

Google Analytics

Our websites also include certain components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Also in this case these are third-party cookies collected and managed anonymously to monitor and improve the performance of the host site (performance cookie).

Google Analytics uses “cookies” to collect and analyze anonymous information on the behavior of use of our websites (including the IP address of the user). This information is collected by Google Analytics, which processes in order to prepare reports for our operators about the activities on the websites themselves. This site does not use (and does not allow any third party to use) the analysis tool of Google to track or collect personally identifiable information. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google nor tries to connect an IP address with the identity of a user. Google can also communicate this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

For more information, please refer to the link below: https://www.google.it/policies/privacy/partners/

The user can selectively disable the action of Google Analytics by installing on their browser the component opt-out provided by Google. To disable the action of Google Analytics, please refer to the link below: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How to manage and disable cookies

The user can decide whether or not to accept cookies using the settings of your browser.

Warning: disabling all or part of the technical cookies can compromise the use of the functionality of the site reserved for registered users only. On the contrary, the usability of public content is possible even by totally disabling cookies.

Disabling cookies “third party” does not prejudge in any way the navigability.

The setting can be defined specifically for different websites and web applications. Moreover, the best browsers allow you to define different settings for cookies “owners” and those of “third parties”.

For example, in Firefox, through the menu Tools->Options ->Privacy, you can access a control panel where you can define whether or not to accept the different types of cookies and proceed to their removal.

You can also find more information about cookies and how to manage them by consulting the website www.aboutcookies.org or by clicking on the “Help” menu of your browser.

Using the site without refuse cookies and similar technologies online, users agree to the use of these technologies by us for the collection and processing of information.

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