Information on the use of cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure that procedures work correctly and to improve the experience of using online applications. This document provides detailed information on the use of cookies and similar technologies, how they are used and how to manage them.
Definitions
Cookies are short fragments of text (letters and/or numbers) that allow the web server to store information on the client (the browser) to be re-used during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even after days (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, according to user preferences, by the individual browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).
Similar technologies, such as, for example, web beacons, transparent GIFs and all forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, can be used to collect information about user behaviour and the use of services.
In the remainder of this document we will refer to cookies and all similar technologies by simply using the term “cookies”.
The types of cookies used
Essential cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and make full use of its features, such as accessing the various secure areas of the site. Without these cookies some necessary services, such as filling in a contact form, cannot be used.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how users use a website, e.g. which pages are visited most, if you receive error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected by cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve the functioning of a website.
Functionality cookies
Cookies allow the site to remember choices made by the user (such as name, language or region) and provide advanced personalised functionality. These cookies may also be used to remember changes you make to the size of text, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services that you have requested such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information collected by these types of cookies may be anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Third-party cookies
When you visit a website you may receive cookies both from the site you visit (“owners”) and from sites operated by other organisations (“third parties”). A notable example is the presence of ‘social plugins’ for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn. These are parts of the visited page generated directly by these sites and integrated into the page of the host site. The most common use of social plugins is to share content on social networks.
The presence of these plugins involves the transmission of cookies to and from all sites operated by third parties. The management of the information collected by “third parties” is governed by the relevant policies to which please refer. For the sake of transparency and convenience, the web addresses of the different privacy policies and cookie management methods are listed below.
Facebook information: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
Facebook (configuration): log in to your account. Privacy section.
Twitter information: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514
Twitter (configuration): https://twitter.com/settings/security
Linkedin information: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
Linkedin (configuration): https://www.linkedin.com/settings/
Google+ information: http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/cookies/
Google+ (configuration): http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/managing/
Youtube notice: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it&gl=it
Google Analytics
This website also includes certain components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Again, these are third-party cookies collected and managed anonymously to monitor and improve the performance of the host site (performance cookies).
Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’ to anonymously collect and analyse information on site usage behaviour (including the user’s IP address. This site does not use (and does not allow third parties to use) Google’s analytics tool to track or collect personally identifiable information. Google does not associate the IP address with any other data held by Google nor does it attempt to link an IP address with a user’s identity. Google may also disclose this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
For further information, please refer to the link below:
https://www.google.it/policies/privacy/partners/
The user can selectively disable the action of Google Analytics by installing the opt-out component provided by Google on his browser. To disable the action of Google Analytics, please refer to the link below:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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.
However, by navigating on the pages of this site, you may interact with sites managed by third parties that may create or modify persistent and profiling cookies.
Managing cookies
You can decide whether or not to accept cookies by using the settings on your browser.
Attention: the total or partial disabling of technical cookies may compromise the use of the site functionalities reserved to registered users. Conversely, the usability of public content is also possible by completely disabling cookies.
Disabling “third-party” cookies does not affect navigability in any way.
The setting can be defined specifically for different websites and web applications. Furthermore, the best browsers allow different settings for ‘proprietary’ and ‘third-party’ cookies.
As an example, in Firefox, through the menu Tools->Options->Privacy, it is possible to access a control panel where it is possible to define whether or not to accept the different types of cookies and to proceed to their removal.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=it_IT