1. What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that the site sends to the user’s terminal, where they are stored to be then retransmitted to the site on the next visit of the same user. By default almost all Web browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. Cookies can be classified according to the following categories:

  • “Session” or “persistent” cookies: the first ones are stored on the user’s computer for mere technical-functional needs, for the transmission of session identifiers necessary to allow the safe and efficient exploration of the site; They will cancel at the end of the “session” (from which the name) with the closing of the browser. “Persistent” cookies, however, remain stored on your computer’s hard drive until they expire or are deleted by users and allow you to store your preferences or actions with respect to a site;
  • “Technical” or “profiling” cookies: the first ones are those used to “transmit a communication on an electronic communications network or to the extent strictly necessary to the provider of an information society service Explicitly requested by the Subscriber or by the user to provide such service “; This category also included the so-called cookies analytics where they are used directly by the site manager to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site; Profiling cookies are designed to create user profiles and are used in order to send advertisements in line with the preferences expressed by the same in the context of network navigation. Because of the invasiveness that such cookies may have within the private sphere of users, European and Italian legislation provides that the user should be adequately informed about the use of the same and express his/her valid consent to use;
  • “First party” cookies (i.e. first parties cookies) or “third party cookies”: according to the website or domain from which they originate. The first party cookies are, in essence, the cookies set and managed by the site owner. For these cookies, the obligation of the information and the indication of the modalities for the eventual blocking of the cookie is the responsibility of the site owner. Third party cookies are the cookies imported from a domain other than the one visited by the user. For these cookies, the obligation of the informative and the indication of the modalities for the eventual blocking of the cookie is the third party, while the owner of the site is solely obliged to include on the site the link to the third party site where such information are available.

2. Use of cookies by the site owner

The owner of the site uses only the third party cookies, called Google Analytics, of technical type, in order to analyze the use of the site by users and to optimize its enjoyment.
At the following link https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection, the user can find all the useful information about this type of cookie and disable them, if deemed appropriate.
Alternatively, you can configure your browser to accept or reject all cookies or to receive a warning when a cookie is sent to your device.
Each browser is different from the other. By selecting the menu button, the “Help/Help” section of the browser, each user can understand how to change his or her cookie preferences.
In Google Chrome, for example, for settings about activating and/or disabling cookies, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Chrome menu icon (top right of the navigation window, with 3 gray lines);
  2. Select “Settings”;
  3. At the bottom of the page, click “Show Advanced Settings”;
  4. In the “Privacy” section, click “Content Settings”;
  5. Enable or disable cookies:
    • To enable cookies, select “Allow data to be saved locally (recommended)”;
    • To disable cookies, select “Prevent Sites from setting data”;
  6. Click “Finish” to save the settings.

To clear cookies, you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Click the Chrome menu icon (top right of the navigation window, with 3 gray lines);
  2. Select “Tools”;
  3. Select “Clear navigation data”;
  4. In the dialog box that appears, select the check boxes for the types of information that you want to remove;
  5. Use the top Menu to select the amount of data you want to delete. Select “All” to delete all data;
  6. Click “Clear Navigation Data”.

In Microsoft Internet Explorer, the cookie settings can be changed with the following steps:

  1. Click “Tools”, then select “Internet Options”;
  2. Select the “Privacy” tab at the top of the window;
  3. Move the cursor up or down to select the types of cookies you want to block.

To clear cookies, you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Click “Tools”, then select “Internet Options”;
  2. In the “General” tab, under “Browsing history”, click the “Delete” button;
  3. In the popup window that appears, select the box next to “cookies”;
  4. Click the “Delete” button.

In accordance with the provisions of the provision of the Italian Guarantor Privacy No. 229 of 8 May 2014 on the “Identification of simplified modalities for information and the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies” and subsequent clarification of 4 June 2014, by accessing the site’s homepage or any other page for the first time, the user displays the short information provided by banner, which:

  • Inform you of the use of third Partycookie on the site;
  • it invites you to acquire more information by reading this cookie policy and
  • It also notifies you that, by continuing in the navigation, you implicitly consent to the use of such cookies.

At any time, you have the right to change your choices about cookies.
In accordance with the regulations in force, for third party cookies, which are the only cookies in use on the site, it is stated that the owner is obliged to provide the user only the link to the information of the third party with which he has stipulated agreements for the installation of These text strings through your site, which, in this policy, is indicated at the beginning of this section.