Cookie Policy

Pursuant to current Italian legislation on the protection of personal data (articles 122 of Legislative Decree 196/2003), of the EU Regulation 2016/679 (articles 4 point 11, articles 6, 7, 12, 13, 22, 25 and 30), of the Guidelines 05/2020 on consent pursuant to EU regulation 2016/679 arrived on May 4 2020 and of the Provision of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data n. 229/2014, as updated and integrated in light of the Guidelines on the use of cookies and other tracking of 10 June 2021, the following policy is released.

Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
To find out the Data Controller and the Data Protection Officer CLICK HERE

What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small information. Cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website work properly, make the site more secure, provide a better user experience, understand how the website works and analyze what works and what needs improvement.

What types of cookies exist?

Based on their duration, cookies can be divided into: session cookies, saved only temporarily during navigation and deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed; Persistent cookies saved on the user’s PC / device, not deleted when the browser is closed, remain active even after the browser is closed for a certain period of time.
Depending on their function, cookies can be divided into: technical cookies, functional to the correct and effective use of the website and its components; analytical cookies, aimed at monitoring and analyzing user navigation within the site; profiling cookies, aimed at creating user profiles, generally used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user in the context of surfing the net.
Finally, based on their origin, cookies are divided into: first-party cookies, installed by the website you are consulting and can only be used from that website; in third-party cookies, installed and used by an organization other than the owner of the website you are visiting.

Main cookies used on this site

In the following table you can find a list of profiling cookies and third party cookies that are used on the site. Given their nature, this list does not contain technical cookies strictly related to the use of the site.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

Enabling / disabling of cookies through the browser
There are several ways to manage cookies and other traceability technologies. By changing your browser settings, you can accept or reject cookies or decide to receive a warning message before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. We remind you that by completely disabling cookies in your browser you may not be able to use all our interactive features. If you use multiple computers in different locations, make sure each browser is set to suit your preferences.
You can delete all cookies installed in your browser’s cookie folder. Each browser has different procedures for managing settings. Below are the links to the instructions provided by the most popular browsers for managing the choices relating to cookies:

  • Google Chrome

For instructions on how to delete cookies CLICK HERE
For instructions on how to disable cookies CLICK HERE

  • Microsoft Edge

For instructions on how to delete cookies CLICK HERE
For instructions on how to disable cookies CLICK HERE

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer

For instructions on how to delete cookies CLICK HERE
For instructions on how to disable cookies CLICK HERE

  • Mozilla Firefox

For instructions on how to delete cookies CLICK HERE
For instructions on how to disable cookies CLICK HERE

  • Opera

For instructions on how to delete or disable cookies CLICK HERE

  • Safari per MacOS

For instructions on how to delete or disable cookies CLICK HERE

It is also possible to activate the anti-tracking setting on your browsers. This will ensure that the browsing activity is not tracked for any purpose, including the use of analytics services, commercial networks and social platforms.
You can find more information about cookies and how to manage or disable third-party or marketing / retargeting cookies on the YourOnlineChoices. website.

Please note that, even if you exercise your right to object, you will still receive advertisements, but no longer advertisements tailored to your interests.

Some third-party systems that use cookies provide tools for users to block the installation of their cookies. CLICK HERE to view the one made available by Google to block cookies related to Google Analytics
In this LINK, however, it is possible to block the cookies set by the addThis sharing system (blocking occurs by setting a cookie)

Should you delete your cookies in the future, you will have to exercise your right to object again. You will have to exercise your right to object again even if you use a different browser.

Enabling / disabling cookies through the information banner or through consent management tools
You can express your consent for the installation of cookies in a simplified way in the manner indicated in the information banner that you could see at the first access on this site, or selectively using our consent management tool through which you can selectively refuse entire categories of purposes for which cookies are collected, as well as obviously being able to deny or give consent to all cookies managed with a single click.

If you want to customize the tracking of cookies for this website click on:  [cookie_settings]

Its operation is simple: you can activate or deactivate the purposes for which you give consent or, alternatively, select the individual subjects you want to authorize or which you want to prevent from operating, then click on the “Save preferences” button to register your choices. All the partners of the Owner are committed to respecting your choices. You can access the tool at any time through this cookie policy and, if it is the first time you visit this site or you have recently deleted the cookies installed on your browser, through the warning banner that appears at the top or bottom of the page you are visiting.

Third party cookies

The site also acts as an intermediary for third-party cookies (such as buttons for social networks), used to provide additional services and features to visitors and to simplify the use of the site, or to provide personalized advertising. This site has no control over their cookies entirely managed by third parties and does not have access to the information collected through these cookies. Information on the use of these cookies and their purposes, as well as on how to disable them, are provided directly by the third parties on the pages indicated below.
It is recalled that generally the tracking of users does not involve identification of the same, unless the User is already registered for the service and is not already logged in, in which case it is understood that the User has already expressed his consent directly to the third party when registering for the relevant service (eg Facebook).

The site uses cookies from the following third parties.
Google Analytics: is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google uses the Personal Data collected for the purpose of evaluating the use of this Website, compiling reports and sharing them with other services developed by Google. Google may use the Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the advertisements of its own advertising network. This integration of Google Analytics makes the user’s IP address anonymous. Anonymization works by shortening the IP address of the Users within the borders of the member states of the European Union or in other countries adhering to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the IP address will be sent to Google’s servers and shortened within the United States. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Subject adhering to the Privacy Shield.

Social Network Plugin
The site also incorporates plugins and / or buttons in order to allow easy sharing of content on your favorite social networks. When you visit a page of our website that contains a plugin, your browser connects directly to the servers of the social network from which the plugin is loaded, which server can track your visit to our website and, if necessary, associate it. to your social media account, in particular if you are logged in at the time of the visit or if you have recently surfed on one of the websites containing social plugins. If you do not want the social network to record the data relating to your visit to our website, you must log out of your social network account and, probably, delete the cookies that the social network has installed in your browser.
This site has installed plugins with advanced privacy protection functions for Users, which do not send cookies or access the cookies on the User’s browser when the page is opened but only after clicking on the plugin.
The collection and use of information by these third parties are governed by their respective privacy policies to which please refer.

Facebook Social Plugins is a web sharing service provided by Meta Platforms, Inc (“Facebook”). Facebook uses the Personal Data collected for the purpose of tracing and examining the use of this Application, compiling reports and sharing them with other services developed by Facebook. Facebook may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the advertisements of its own advertising network. Personal data collected: Cookies and Usage data. Place of processing: USA – Privacy PolicyCookie pixel

Twitter Through this site, Twitter, if you give your consent, will be able to process your personal data to allow you a browsing experience enriched with social network features and services. Extended information: Privacy Policy

–  LinkedIn The LinkedIn button and social widgets are interaction services with the Linkedin social network, provided by LinkedIn Corporation. Personal data collected: Cookies and Usage data. Place of processing: USA. Privacy Policy.

Youtube: platform, owned by Google, for sharing videos. Cookies are set when the pages containing the embed are accessed, and when the video is started, and do not allow the identification of the User unless he is already logged into the Google profile. For the videos on the site, the “advanced privacy (no cookie)” option has been activated which ensures that YouTube does not store information about visitors unless they voluntarily reproduce the video. Collected data: number and behavior of users of the service, IP address, information linking visits to the site to the Google account for users already logged in, preferences on viewing videos. Place of data processing: USA. Extended information

Rights of the user browsing the site

You can exercise the following rights by contacting the Data Controller at the addresses referred to in point 1 of this policy

Right Description
Right to withdraw consent
(Article 13 paragraph II letter A and Article 9 paragraph II letter A)

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time for all those treatments whose legitimacy prerequisite is your consent, as indicated in the table of purposes described above. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the previous processing.

Right of access to data (Article 15) You can request a) the purposes of the processing; b) the categories of personal data in question; c) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular if they are recipients of third countries or international organizations; d) when possible, the retention period of the personal data envisaged or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine this period; e) the existence of the right of the interested party to ask the data controller to rectify or delete personal data or limit the processing of personal data concerning him or to oppose their treatment; f) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; g) if the data are not collected from the data subject, all available information on their origin; h) the existence of an automated decision-making process, including the profiling referred to in Article 22, paragraphs 1 and 4, and, at least in such cases, significant information on the logic used, as well as the importance and expected consequences of such processing for the interested party. You have the right to request a copy of the personal data being processed.
Right of rectification (Article 16) You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal data concerning him and to obtain the integration of incomplete personal data.
Right to be forgotten (Article 17) You have the right to obtain from the data controller the deletion of personal data concerning you if the personal data are no longer necessary with respect to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, if you revoke the consent, if there is no legitimate overriding reason to proceed with profiling processing, if the data have been unlawfully processed, if there is a legal obligation to delete them; if the data relates to web services to minors without consent.
Right to limitation of processing (Article 18) You have the right to obtain from the data controller the limitation of processing when you have contested the accuracy of personal data (for the period necessary for the data controller to verify the accuracy of such personal data); if the processing is unlawful and instead ask for its use to be limited; to the deletion of personal data and instead ask for their use to be limited; if the data are necessary for you to ascertain, exercise or defend a right in court, while the Data Controller is no longer needed; if you have opposed the processing pursuant to Article 21, paragraph 1, pending verification of the possible prevalence of the data controller’s legitimate reasons.
Right to portability (Article 20) You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you have the right to transmit them to another if the processing is based on consent, on the contract and if the processing is carried out by automated means, unless the processing necessary for the execution of a task of public interest or connected to the exercise of public authority and that such transmission does not affect the right of a third party.
Right to object (Article 21) You have the right to object at any time, for reasons related to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you pursuant to Article 6, paragraph 1, letters e) or f), including profiling on the basis of these provisions. The data controller refrains from further processing personal data unless he demonstrates the existence of compelling legitimate reasons for proceeding with the processing that prevail over the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for ascertaining, exercising or the defense of a right in court.