Information on cookies
This website uses cookies and cookies to ensure the correct functionality of processes and to improve the user experience of online applications.
This document provides information on the use of cookies and similar technologies.

Definition

Cookies are short pieces of text (letters and/or numbers) that allow the web server to store information on the client's computer (the browser) that is re-used during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even days later (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, according to the user's preferences, in the individual browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Tecnologie simili, come web beacon, GIF trasparenti e tutte le forme di archiviazione locale introdotte con HTML5, possono essere utilizzate per raccogliere informazioni sul comportamento degli utenti e sull’utilizzo dei servizi.

In the rest of this document we will refer to cookies and all similar technologies by simply using the term ‘cookies’.

Type of cookies

Depending on the characteristics and use of cookies, we can distinguish different categories

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’. They are not used for any further purposes and are normally installed directly by the owner or administrator of the web server. They can be divided into navigation or session cookies, which ensure the normal navigation and use of the website; analysis cookies, assimilated to technical cookies where they are used directly by the site administrator 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 set of criteria selected to improve the service provided to the user. Users are not required to give their prior consent for the installation of such cookies, while they may be required to provide information in the manner deemed most appropriate.

Profiling cookies. Profiling cookies are aimed at creating user profiles and are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user when surfing the web. Due to the particular invasiveness that such devices can have in the private sphere of users, the legislation provides that the user must be adequately informed about their use and, therefore, express his/her valid consent. This site does not use profiling cookies.

Third-party cookies

By visiting the website, one can receive cookies both from the site visited (‘owners’) and from sites operated by other organisations (‘third parties’). A notable example is the presence of ‘iframes’, ‘scripts’ or ‘social plugins’ for Facebook, Twitter, Google and LinkedIn. These are parts of the page visited, generated directly by the above-mentioned sites and integrated into the page of the host site. The most common use of social plugins is for the purpose of sharing content on social networks.

The presence of these plugins implies the transmission of cookies to and from all sites operated by third parties. The management of information collected by ‘third parties’ is governed by the relevant policies to which please refer.

Duration of cookies

Some cookies (session cookies) remain active only until the browser is closed or the logout command is executed. Other cookies ‘survive’ when the browser is closed and are available on subsequent visits by the user. These cookies are called persistent and their duration is fixed by the server when they are created. In some cases an expiry date is set, in other cases the duration is unlimited

Managing Cookies

Users can decide whether or not to accept cookies by using the settings on their browser.

Attention: the total or partial deactivation of technical cookies may affect the use of the site functionalities reserved for registered users. On the contrary, the usability of public content is also possible by completely disabling cookies.

Disabling ‘third-party’ cookies does not affect navigability in any way.

Settings can be defined specifically for different websites and web applications. Furthermore, the best browsers allow different settings for ‘proprietary’ and ‘third-party’ cookies.