This website uses technical cookies to ensure proper functioning and to improve the user experience on the pages. By staying on our website, you agree to our use of cookies. This document describes the european cookie policy, but also what kind of cookie our site uses.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to "remember" your actions or preferences over time. Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.
Websites mainly use cookies to:
- identify users
- remember users' custom preferences
- help users complete tasks without having to re‑enter information when browsing from one page to another or when visiting the site later.
Cookies can also be used for online behavioural target advertising and to show adverts relevant to something that the user searched for in the past.
How are they used?
The web server supplying the webpage can store a cookie on the user's computer or mobile device. An external web server that manages files included or referenced in the webpage is also able to store cookies. All these cookies are called http header cookies. Another way of storing cookies is through JavaScript code contained or referenced in that page.
Each time the user requests a new page, the web server can receive the values of the cookies it previously set and return the page with content relating to these values. Similarly, JavaScript code is able to read a cookie belonging to its domain and perform an action accordingly.
What are the different types of cookies?
A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:
- session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or
- persistent cookie which remains on the user's computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.
As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:
- first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain
- third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
Facebook (configuration): access your account. Privacy section
Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514
Twitter (configuration): https://twitter.com/settings/security
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
Linkedin (configuration): https://www.linkedin.com/settings/
Youtube\Google+: http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/cookies/
Youtube\Google+ (configuration): http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/managing/
Cookie analytics: our site also includes components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google. These cookies are used only to monitor and improve the site's performance. For more information, please see below given link:
https://www.google.it/policies/privacy/partners/
To disable the action of Google Analytics, please refer to the link given below:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
How manage the cookies
The user can decide whether to accept cookies using your browser settings. Attention: with the total or partial disabling of technical cookies could affect proper use of the site. Disabling the "third party" cookies does not prejudge in any way the navigability. The setting can be defined specifically for the different sites and web applications. Also browsers allow you to define different settings for cookies "owners" and those of "third parties".
For example, in Firefox, through the Tools-> Options> Privacy, you can access a control panel where you can define whether or not to accept the different types of cookies and remove them. You can find documentation on how to set the cookies management rules for your browser; here are some links for the main browsers:
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
More info: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm