Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to the User’s device when visiting a website. At each subsequent visit, cookies are sent back to the website that originated them (first-party cookies) or to another site that recognizes them (third-party cookies). Cookies allow a website to recognize the User’s device. They have various purposes such as, for example, allowing efficient navigation between pages, remembering favorite sites and, in general, improving the browsing experience.
Cookies can be first or third party, where “first party” means cookies that have our site as a domain, while “third party” means cookies that are related to external domains. Third party cookies are necessarily installed by an external party, always defined as “third party”, not managed by the site.
Regarding the nature of cookies, there are different types:
2.1 Technical cookies
Cookies defined as technical are 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”. They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the owner or manager of the website and 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); they are in fact necessary for the correct functioning of the site;
– 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 itself, in order to improve the performance of 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 user. The prior consent of users is not required for the installation of these cookies.
2.2 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 expressed by the user while browsing the internet. The consent of the interested party is required for the use of profiling cookies. According to the provision of the Guarantor, the user can authorize or deny consent to the installation of cookies.
2.3 Third-party cookies
Third-party analysis cookies are used to collect information on the use of the site by users in anonymous form (pages visited, time spent, origins of the traffic of origin, geographic origin, age, gender and interests) to define marketing campaigns. These cookies are sent from third-party domains, external to our site. In the case of third-party cookies, the site does not have direct control over individual cookies and cannot control them (it cannot install them directly or delete them). You can still manage these cookies through your browser settings (follow the instructions below).
3.1 Technical cookies
Technical cookies are those whose use does not require the User’s consent. Among these technical cookies, we highlight essential cookies, also called “strictly necessary”, which enable functions, without which it would not be possible to fully use the website. Essential cookies include session cookies, used to manage authentication to online services and reserved areas and which allow safe and efficient exploration of the website. Essential cookies cannot be disabled, because this action would prevent the use of online services and/or navigation. Technical cookies also include monitoring cookies, used to statistically analyze accesses or visits to the site, also called “analytics”. They pursue exclusively statistical purposes (but not marketing or profiling) and collect information in aggregate form without the possibility of tracing the identification of the individual user. These cookies can be deactivated and/or deleted through the browser settings.
3.2 Third-party cookies
In this case, the site does not have direct control over individual cookies (it cannot install them directly or delete them). You can still manage these cookies through your browser settings (follow the instructions below).
How to disable/delete cookies through browser configuration:
Chrome
1. Run the Chrome Browser
2. Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the URL entry window for navigation
3. Select Settings
4. Click on Show Advanced Settings
5. In the “Privacy” section, click on the “Content Settings” button
6. In the “Cookies” section, you can change the following cookie settings: allow local data to be saved, change local data only until the browser is closed, prevent sites from setting cookies, block third-party cookies and site data, manage exceptions for some websites, delete one or all cookies.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Run the Mozilla Firefox Browser
2. Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the URL entry window for navigation
3. Select Options
4. Select the Privacy panel
5. Click on Show Advanced Settings
6. In the “Privacy” section, click on the “Content Settings” button
7. In the “Tracking” section, you can change the following cookie settings: ask sites not to track you, tell sites you are willing to be tracked, do not communicate any preferences regarding the tracking of personal data.
8. From the “History” section, you can: by enabling “Use custom settings”, select to accept third-party cookies (always, from the most visited sites or never) and to store them for a specific period (until they expire, until Firefox is closed or to ask every time), remove individual cookies stored.
Internet Explorer
1. Run the Internet Explorer Browser
2. Click on the Tools button and choose Internet Options
3. Click on the Privacy tab and, in the Settings section, change the slider according to the desired action for cookies: block all cookies, allow all cookies, select the sites from which to obtain cookies: move the cursor to an intermediate position so as not to block or allow all cookies, then press on Sites, in the Website Address box enter a website and then press on Block or Allow.
Safari 6
1. Run the Safari Browser
2. Click on Safari, select Preferences and press on Privacy
3. In the Block Cookies section specify how Safari should accept cookies from websites.
4. To see which sites have stored cookies, click on Details
Safari iOS (mobile devices)
1. Run the iOS Safari Browser
2. Tap on Settings and then Safari
3. Tap on Block Cookies and choose between the various options: “Never”, “Third-party and advertisers” or “Always”
4. To delete all cookies stored by Safari, tap on Settings, then on Safari and finally on Delete Cookies and data.