Foreword

This website normally uses technical and session cookies for normal delivery of its services. Users can deny their consent to the use of cookies, including by first disabling the function from their browser. Disabling cookies may affect navigation within the website by compromising certain features of our services. Accessing any page of the website will present a short information banner by closing it, clicking on the button “OK”, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Policy. By accepting, a technical cookie will obviously be set on the user’s browser that will store the preference. If the user deletes cookies from their browser, the policy will be presented again.


What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text strings that sites visited by the user send to the user’s terminal (usually the browser), where they are stored and then transmitted back to the same sites on the next visit by the same user.
The legislator, in implementation of the provisions contained in Directive 2009/136/EC, has reconducted the obligation to acquire the prior and informed consent of users to the installation of cookies used for other than merely technical purposes (see Art. 1, para. 5(a) of Leg. May 28, 2012, no. 69, which amended Art. 122 of the Code).
In this regard, therefore, two macro-categories are identified: cookies “technical” and cookies “of profiling“. There are also cookies installed by a party other than the owner / operator of the site (so-called “third parties“).

 


Technical cookies

Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “carry out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide such a service” (see Article 122(1) of the Code).

They can be further subdivided into:

  1. Navigation or session cookies, which ensure normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate to access restricted areas);
  2. analytics cookies, assimilated to technical cookies where used directly by the site operator to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site.

The installation of such cookies does not require the prior consent of users, while the obligation to give information pursuant to Art. 13 of the Code.


Profiling cookies

Profiling cookies are aimed at creating profiles related to the user and are used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user when browsing the web. This site does not use these kinds of cookies.

 


Third-party cookies

By visiting a website, you may receive cookies either from the site you visit (“owners”) or from sites operated by other organizations (“third parties”). A notable example is the presence of the “social plugin” for
Facebook
,
Twitter
,
Google+
 e
LinkedIn
. These are parts of the visited page generated directly from the aforementioned sites and integrated into the page of the host site. The most common use of social plugins is for the purpose of sharing content on social networks.

The presence of these plugins results in the transmission of cookies to and from all sites operated by third parties. The management of information collected by “third parties” is governed by the relevant disclosures to which please refer. For the sake of transparency and convenience, the web addresses of the different disclosures and cookie management methods are provided below.

  • Facebook disclosure: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
  • Facebook (configuration): log in to your account. Privacy section.
  • Twitter informative: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514
  • Twitter (configuration): https://twitter.com/settings/security
  • Linkedin information: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
  • Linkedin (configuration): https://www.linkedin.com/settings/
  • Google+ information: http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/cookies/

Google+ (configuration):
http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/managing/


Controlling cookies

Most browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser’s own settings. If you do not wish to receive any kind of cookies on your computer, you can elevate the privacy protection level of your browser using the appropriate function.

Warning: disabling all or part of technical cookies may affect the use of site features reserved for registered users. On the contrary, the usability of public content is also possible by completely disabling cookies.

Disabling “third-party” cookies does not affect navigability in any way.

The setting can be defined specifically for different sites and web applications. In addition, the best browsers allow you to define different settings for “proprietary” and “third-party” cookies.

You can configure most settings regarding Cookies through your web browser (browsing software).

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

Select below the browser you use to receive information on how to change its cookie settings.

Safari:
https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT201265


Google Analytics cookies

The Google Analytics tool collects information anonymously and records website trends without identifying individual visitors. Browsers do not share proprietary Google Analytics tool cookies between various domains. Google Analytics does not report information about the actual IP addresses of visitors. Due to the use of a method known as IP masking, Google Analytics communicates information so that only a portion of the IP address is used for geolocation, rather than the entire address. You can download the browser add-on for disabling Google Analytics. The add-on tells the Google Analytics JavaScript code (ga.js) to indicate that website visit information should not be sent to Google Analytics. The browser add-on for disabling Google Analytics does not prevent the information from being sent to the website itself. To disable the Google Analytics action, please refer to the link below:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout