COOKIE POLICY

EXTENDED INFORMATION

 WHAT ARE COOKIES? Cookies are small text strings that the sites visited by the user send to his terminal (usually to the browser), where they are stored to be then retransmitted to the same sites at the next visit of the same user. During navigation on a site, the user can also receive on his terminal cookies 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 user is visiting. Cookies, usually present in users’ browsers in very large numbers and sometimes with characteristics of long temporal persistence, are used for different purposes: execution of computer authentication, monitoring of sessions, storage of information on specific configurations regarding users who access the server, etc. In order to reach a correct regulation of these devices, it is necessary to distinguish them given that there are no technical characteristics that differentiate them from each other precisely on the basis of the purposes pursued by those who use them. In this regard, two macro-categories are therefore identified: “technical” cookies and “profiling” cookies. a. Technical Cookies Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “carrying out the transmission of a communication on 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 such service” (see art. 122, paragraph 1, of the Code). They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the owner or manager of the website. They can be divided into navigation or session cookies, which guarantee normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate to access reserved areas); analytics cookies, assimilated 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 navigate according to a series of selected criteria (for example, the language, the products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided to the same. The installation of these cookies does not require the prior consent of users, while the obligation to provide information pursuant to art. 13 of the Code remains in place, which the site manager, if he uses only such devices, may provide in the manner he deems most appropriate. b. Profiling cookies Profiling cookies are designed to create profiles relating to the user and are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences shown by the user while browsing the internet. Due to the particular invasiveness that such devices may have in the private sphere of users, European and Italian legislation requires that the user must be adequately informed about their use and thus express their valid consent. Article 122 of the Code refers to them when it provides that “the storage of information in the terminal device of a contractor or user or access to information already stored is permitted only on condition that the contractor or user has given his consent after being informed with the simplified procedures referred to in Article 13, paragraph 3” (Article 122, paragraph 1, of the Code).  

STORAGE MODE

a. Non-Persistent Cookies Cookies stored in the temporary memory of the device, normally expire with session, are no longer present at the next opening of the browser, if necessary they will be temporarily re-downloaded. More easily these are technical cookies. b. Persistent Cookies Cookies stored on the physical media of the device, it will be possible to find them the next time you open the browser. More easily these are profiling cookies. Cookies can however be deleted with specific procedures in each browser.  SUBJECTS INVOLVED A further element to consider, for the purposes of the correct definition of the matter under examination, is the subjective one. It is necessary, that is, to take into account the different subject that installs the cookies on the user’s terminal, depending on whether it is the same manager of the site that the user is visiting (which can be briefly indicated as “publisher”) or a different site that installs cookies through the first (so-called “third parties”). Publisher Cookies are generally created and readable by the site that created them. Third-party cookies are created and readable by domains external to the site and the data is stored by the third party.  AUTHORIZATION/DISACTIVATION OF COOKIES The main browsers allow you to choose whether to enable or disable the use of Cookies. Below we indicate the links with the disabling procedures provided by the main browsers:  WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE? LEGAL NOTES Please refer to the website of the Privacy Guarantor for more detailed information: http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/3118884