Privacy and cookie policy
Cookie policy
The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data issued provision no. 229, entitled “Identification of simplified procedures for the information and the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies”, with consequent publication in the Official Gazette on 3 June 2014. Through this provision, the Guarantor transposes the European directives according to which each website, at the first access of a visitor, must show an information banner that informs them of the cookie policy operated by the site they are visiting, and to subordinate the continuation of the navigation upon acceptance of this policy. The entire provision is available at the URL https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/3118884.
Definition
Cookies are small text strings that the sites visited by the user send to his terminal (usually the browser), where they are stored before being re-transmitted to the same sites at the next visit by the same user. While browsing a site, the user can also receive cookies on his terminal that are sent from different sites or web servers (so-called “third parties”), on which some elements may reside (such as, for example, images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains) present on the site that the same is visiting.
Cookies, usually present in users’ browsers in very large numbers and sometimes even with characteristics of wide temporal persistence, are used for different purposes: execution of computer authentication, session monitoring, storage of information on specific configurations concerning users who access the server, etc.
The Guarantor, in order to arrive at a correct regulation of the directive, has identified two macro categories of cookies: technical cookies and profiling cookies; and at the same time defined a further differentiation regarding the subject who installs the cookies, which can be the same site manager (“publisher”) or a third party, who installs cookies through the first, defining this type third party cookies. In the latter case, the Guarantor has expressly limited the publisher’s responsibility to the reference to the information of the party that installs these cookies.
Technical cookies
Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “carrying 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 this service “(see art. 122, paragraph 1, of the Code).
They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the website owner or manager. They can be divided into navigation or session cookies, which guarantee the normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate to access restricted areas); analytics cookies, similar to technical cookies when used directly by the site manager to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site; functionality cookies, which allow the user to browse according to a series of selected criteria (for example, the language, the products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided.
For the installation of these cookies, the prior consent of the users is not required, while the obligation to provide information pursuant to art. 13 of the Code.
Profiling cookies
Profiling cookies are designed to create user profiles and are used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user while surfing the net. Due to the particular invasiveness that such devices may have in the private sphere of users, European and Italian legislation provides that the user must be adequately informed about their use and thus express their valid consent.
The art. 122 of the Code where it provides that “the storage of information in the terminal equipment of a contractor or a user or access to information already stored is permitted only on condition that the contractor or user has given his consent after being been informed with the simplified procedures referred to in article 13, paragraph 3 “(article 122, paragraph 1, of the Code).
Our site, referring to what is described above, installs on the user’s terminal only and exclusively first and third party technical cookies including:
Google Maps
Geographic maps
No personal user data is acquired by the site in this regard.
Check your cookie settings and disable them
Cookies facilitate and speed up navigation on our site, you can still choose, if you wish, to refuse them. However, this will prevent us from remembering your favorites, from offering you personalized content and from collecting aggregate data obtained from your visit to the site. You can change your cookie settings directly from your web browser.
To learn more about how to manage and delete cookies from your browser, go to the following links:
- Further information on disabling cookies on Firefox
- Further information on disabling cookies on Chrome
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