Cookie Policy

1) What are cookies?
As clarified by the Data Protection Authority in the FAQs issued in December 2012, cookies are “small text files” – consisting of letters and numbers – “that the sites visited by the user send to their device (usually to the browser), where they are stored to be retransmitted to the same sites upon the next visit by the same user”. Cookies streamline web traffic analysis or show when a specific site or part of it is visited, distinguish visitors to provide personalized content and help administrators improve both the site and the user browsing experience. We cannot access other information stored on your device through cookies, even though that’s where they are downloaded. Cookies cannot load codes of any kind, nor carry viruses or malwares, and are not harmful for the user’s computer.
Below you will find all the information about the cookies installed through this site and the necessary directions on how to manage your preferences about them.

2) Cookie consent
In the absence of profiling cookies, the user’s prior consent is unnecessary.

3) Cookie duration
Cookies can be:

• session cookie, which are temporarily stored on the user’s computer and deleted when the browser is closed. They are strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers necessary to enable a secure and efficient web site navigation, thus avoiding other IT techniques that could potentially compromise the user’s privacy.
• persistent cookie, which remain stored on the hard drive of the computer until their expiration date or the deletion by users/visitors. Through persistent cookies, any visitor accessing the site (or other users sharing same computer) is automatically identified on every visit. Visitors can set their computer browser to accept/reject all cookies or to display a warning whenever a cookie appears, in order to evaluate whether to accept it or not. In any case, users can modify the default configuration and disable cookies (i.e., block them permanently) by opting for the highest protection level.

4) Types of cookies
Cookies can be:

• First-party cookies, which are stored by this website;
• Third-party cookies, which refers to external domains.

Third-party cookies are necessarily installed by an external agent, hence defined as a “third party”. They aren’t managed by our site. Another type of cookies are the so-called "Flash Cookie"(Local Shared Objects), which are used within Adobe Flash Player to deliver specific contents – such as videoclips or animations – to recall the user’s settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored on the computer too, but they are managed through a different interface than the one provided by the browser you use.

5) Nature of cookies
Depending on their nature, cookies could be ascribed to different types:

- Technical cookies: these are used exclusively to "carry out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide such service" (cfr. art. 122, comma 1, del Codice).
They are not used for other purposes and are usually installed directly by the website owner or manager.
They can be divided into:

• Navigation or session cookies. These ensure the normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, purchases or authentication to access restricted areas); they are essential for the proper functioning of the site.
• Analytics cookies. These are assimilated to technical cookies and directly used by the website manager to collect information, in aggregate form, concerning the number of users and how they navigate the site, to improve the site's overall performance. On our site, analytics cookies are always anonymous, and the visitor's IP address is not stored.
• Functionality cookies. These allow users to navigate on the basis of a series of specific criteria (i.e., language, purchased products) to improve the service provided. The installation of these cookies does not require any prior consent from the users.

- Profiling cookies: These are used to profile users and send them advertising messages consistent with the preferences they expressed during web browsing. Profiling cookies require the explicit consent of the data subject. Regarding third-party cookies, our site does not have direct control over individual cookies and cannot control them (neither install nor delete them directly). There are no profiling cookies on our site.

6) Cookies used on this site
This website only uses technical cookies; we do not profile our users in any way.

Below is a list of the cookies used on our website:

Lastly, we inform you that our site also implements the so-called "social buttons", which are special buttons or widgets that depict some social network icons (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram) allowing users to interact with the relative social platforms with a single click. The social buttons on our site are links that redirect to the Controller’s accounts on these social networks. Thanks to these buttons, our site can reduce the use of third-party cookies.

7) Disabling Cookies
The user cannot refuse the cookies as they are necessary for the site’s functioning.