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How cookies and other similar technologies are used on our websites.

Cookies are small text files sent to your computer when you visit our websites. We use cookies for the aforementioned purposes and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not use cookies to track individual visitors or identify them, but rather to obtain useful information on how to use our websites so that we can continue to improve them for our users. The personal data generated by cookies are collected through pseudonymisation and you have the right to object to the processing of such data, as indicated below.

We use cookies on this website in order to:

  • refer you to the relevant sections of the Website;
  • to ensure that the Website has a consistent appearance in the various browsers and devices;
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  • llow the functioning of complex areas of the Website; is
  • keep track of anonymous and aggregated statistical data relating to visits to the Website in order to improve its performance.

 

To this end, we may install cookies that collect data such as the user’s domain name, Internet service provider, operating system and the date and time of access.

The general types of cookies we use and their purposes are explained below.

 

Types of cookies and purposes

  • first-party cookies: cookies installed by the website that the user visits (the website displayed in the URL window);
  • session cookies: cookies that expire at the end of the browser session (they start when the user opens the browser window and end when the user leaves the browser);
  • persistent cookies: cookies that “persist” in the device after the end of the browser session and therefore allow you to memorize the user’s preferences or actions for his subsequent visit to the website.

Most web browsers allow you to control most cookies through your browser settings. The user can set the browser to get a notification whenever he receives a cookie; this will allow him to decide whether to accept it or not. However, if the user does not accept a cookie, he may not be able to use all the features of his browser software.

To learn more about cookies, including how to view the related settings and how to manage and remove them, see http://www.allaboutcookies.org (the link is external).

In this Website we may use Internet tags (also known as web-beacons, action tags, single-pixel GIFs, transparent GIFs, invisible GIFs and 1-by-1 GIFs) and cookies, and we may do so through a partner of web analytics services based and that stores the respective information (including your IP address) in a foreign country. These tags / cookies are placed on different pages of this Website. We use this technology to measure user responses to our sites (including how many times a page is opened and what information is consulted), as well as to evaluate the use of this Website.

Our third-party partners, hosting service providers and / or web analytics services partners may collect data about your use of this Website by virtue of such anonymized Internet / cookie tags and may compile reports for us regarding the activity of this Website and to provide additional services related to the use of the Website and the Internet. They could provide this information to other parties where this is provided for by law or if they use other parties to process the data on their behalf.

This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies” (text files stored on your computer), which allow it to analyze the use made of the Website. The information produced by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. In case of activation of the IP anonymization procedure on this Website, your IP address will in any case be shortened first by Google in an EU Member State or in any other State that has signed the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. If transferred by the operator of this Website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, in order to compile reports on the activities of the Website for its operators and to provide additional services associated with the use of the Website and of the Internet. The IP address transmitted in the Google Analytics model from your browser will not be associated with other data from Google. You can block the installation of cookies by properly setting the browser software; however, we would like to emphasize that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the features of this Website.

For more information on the conditions of use and data protection, please refer to the address http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html or to the address https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/;

We would like to underline that on this Website, Google Analytics has been extended with the “anonymizeIp” code to guarantee anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Finally we could also use the following types of common cookies:

  • cookies used to customize the user interface (ie preferences storage cookies);
    authentication cookies (ie cookies that allow you to leave our sites and return to them without having to repeat the authentication);
  • cookies used for audio / video content (ie cookies that store the data needed to listen to an audio or review a video and your preferences);Come disattivare i cookies

The website you visit allows you to select / deselect individual cookies, in the manner described below, but it should be noted that, in the event of deactivation, the full usability of the same may not be guaranteed.

Firefox:

  1. open Firefox;
  2. press the “Alt” button on the keyboard;
  3. in the toolbar located at the top of the browser, select “Tools” and then “Options”;
  4. then select the “Privacy” tab;
  5. go to “Settings History:” and then to “Use custom settings”. Uncheck “Accept cookies
  6. from sites” and save preferences.

Internet Explorer:

  1. open Internet Explorer;
  2. click on the “Tools” button and then on “Internet Options”;
  3. select the “Privacy” tab and move the slider to the level of privacy you wish to set
  4. (upwards to block all cookies or downwards to allow them all);
  5. then click OK.

Google Chrome:

  1. open Google Chrome;
  2. click on the “Tools” icon;
  3. select “Settings” and then “Advanced Settings”;
  4. select “Content Settings” under “Privacy”;
  5. in the “Cookies” tab you can deselect cookies and save preferences.

Safari:

  1. open Safari;
  2. choose “Preferences” in the toolbar, then select the “Security” panel in the dialog box that follows;
  3. in the “Accept cookies” section you can specify if and when Safari must save cookies from websites. For more information click on the Help button (marked with a question mark);
  4. for more information on the cookies that are stored on your computer, click on “Show cookies”.

 

Deactivation functions currently available for the Google Analytics Web.

To offer website visitors the possibility of preventing Google Analytics from using their data, developed the browser add-on that deactivates the Google Analytics JavaScript code (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js) .

If you wish to deactivate Google Analytics, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The add-on that deactivates Google Analytics is compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera. To work, it must be loaded and executed correctly in the browser in use. For Internet Explorer it is necessary to activate third-party cookies.