What is a cookie?

As is explained in the Privacy Policy found in the relevant page in FAQ, “… cookies are small pieces of text sent to the user s terminal (normally a browser) by a website the user visits, where they are memorized to be then used by the site during subsequent visits by the same user. While navigating a website, the user may also receive, on their terminal, cookies by different websites and web servers (so-called “third-party” cookies). This may happen because the website visited may contain certain elements such as, images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages on other domains present on separate servers different to the one where the request being made is found. In other words, the cookies from a different website are used, as opposed to those from the website the user is visiting.

Types of cookies

These cookies are essential in order to be allowed to navigate throughout the entire site and to use to maximum capacity its characteristics, such as accessing various secure parts of the site. Without these cookies some necessary functions cannot be used, for example the completion of a form to send an inquiry. By using our site, the user accepts that such cookies can be installed on the user s device.

These cookies collect information on how the user uses the website, for example, what pages are visited the most often or if error messages are received by the web page. These cookies do not collect information that identifies the visitor: all of the information collected is compiled and is therefore anonymous. They are used only to improve the operation of the website. By using our site, the user accepts that such cookies can be installed on the user s device.

These cookies allow the website to remember choices made by the user (such as name, language, or region) and provide advanced personalized features. They can also be used to remember changes made to text size, font and other parts of the web page that can be personalized. They can also be used to provide specific requested services, like watching a video of commenting on an article in a blog. The information gathered by these types of cookies can be made anonymous and unable to monitor navigation activity on other sites. By using our site, the user accepts that such cookies can be installed on the user s device.

These cookies are intended to create profiles relative to the user with the aim of sending publicity messages online using the detected preferences while the user is navigating online. Due to the particular invasive aspect that these technologies can have regarding the privacy of the user, European and Italian regulations provide that the user must be sufficiently informed about the use of said cookies, and express their explicit consent. On the present site, cookies of this type are not used.

By visiting a website, it is possible to receive cookies both from the visited site (“website operator”) and website managed by other organizations (“third party”). A noteworthy example is the presence of “social plug-ins” for Facebook, Twitter, Google+: it refers to sections of the visited page generated directly by the aforementioned sites and integrated into the page of the host website. The most frequent use of social plug-ins is aimed at the sharing of content on social networks. The presence of such plug-ins entails the sending of cookies to and from third parties. The management of the information gathered by “third parties” is regulated by the relative disclosures, of which you are invited to refer to. To guarantee an increased transparency and convenience, you can find below the web addresses for different disclosures and the procedures regarding the management of cookies relating to the social networks connected to this present website:

Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Insragram.

Disabling cookies

To limit, block or delete cookies it is only necessary to consult the settings of the user s web browser. The procedure varies only slightly depending on the type of browser used. For detailed instructions, click on the relative link of the browser used:

• Disabling of cookies on Firefox
• Disabling of cookies on Chrome
• Disabling of cookies on Internet Explorer
• Disabling of cookies on Safari
• Disabling of cookies on Opera

Note: some sections of our website are only accessible only by activating cookies; by deactivating them it is possible that access to certain content will be restricted and therefore preventing the possibility to use the full functionality of this website.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to allow the website to analyze how the users interact with the website. The information gathered by the cookies about the use of the website (including the user s IP address) will be transmitted and saved in a Google server, which will then use this information with the aim of examining and compiling reports on the website activity and to provide other similar and related services on the use of the internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. It is possible to prevent Google from tracking and processing such information by downloading and installing this plug-in for the browser: plugin