This information, pursuant to Article 13 of the European Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council, is made in accordance with the provisions of Legislative Decree No. 196/2003, as amended, of the Republic of Italy, the Order of the Data Protection Authority No. 231 of June 10, 2021, and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and the Council.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are strings of text that websites (so-called publishers, or "first parties") visited by the user or different websites or web servers (so-called "third parties") place and store - directly, in the case of publishers, and indirectly, i.e. through them, in the case of "third parties" - within a terminal device in the user's availability. The terminals referred to are, for example, a computer, tablet, smartphone, or any other device capable of storing information. 

Software for browsing the Internet and operating these devices, e.g., browsers, can store cookies and then transmit them back to the sites that generated them on a subsequent visit by the same user, thus maintaining memory of his or her previous interaction with one or more websites.

Information encoded in cookies can include personal data, such as an IP address, user name, unique identifier, or e-mail address, but it can also contain non-personal data, such as language settings or information about the type of device a person is using to browse the site.

Cookies thus perform important and diverse functions, including tracking sessions, storing information about specific configurations regarding users accessing the server, facilitating the enjoyment of online content etc. They can be used to keep track of items in an online shopping cart or information used to fill out a computer form.

Through cookies that it is possible to allow, among other things, web pages to load faster, as well as to route information over a network, in line therefore with fulfillments strictly related to the very operation of websites. Also through cookies, it is also possible to convey behavioral advertising (so-called "behavioral advertising") and then measure the effectiveness of the advertising message, that is, to conform type and manner of services rendered to the user's behavior subject to previous observation.

Types of Cookies

Italian legislation (Art. 122 of Legislative Decree 196/03 "Code on the Protection of Personal Data" hereinafter briefly "Privacy Code") has introduced into our law the EU Directive 2009/136/EC, which requires website operators, who use cookies or other tracking technologies, to inform the user about the types of cookies used by the site. 

With Provision No. 231 of June 10, 2021, published in the Official Gazette No. 163 of July 9, 2021, the Data Protection Authority divided the types of cookies into two macro categories: "technical" cookies and "non-technical" cookies.

Technical Cookies 

Sono installati dal titolare o dal gestore del sito web allo scopo di <<effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica, o nella misura strettamente necessaria al fornitore di un servizio della società dell’informazione esplicitamente richiesto dall’abbonato o dall’utente a erogare tale servizio>> (art. 122, comma 1, del Codice Privacy). Per l’installazione dei Cookie Tecnici non è richiesto il preventivo consenso degli utenti.

First-party and so-called third-party analytics cookies

They are equated with cookies and other technical identifiers only if:

• are used only to produce aggregate statistics and in relation to a single site or mobile application;

• is masked, for third-party ones, at least the fourth component of the IP address;

• third parties refrain from combining analytics cookies, thus minimized, with other processing (customer files or statistics of visits to other sites, for example) or passing them on to further third parties. However, third parties are allowed to produce statistics with data from multiple domains, websites or mobile applications that can be traced back to the same publisher or business group.

The owner who performs on its own the mere statistical processing of data related to multiple domains, websites or mobile applications that can be traced back to it may also use the unencrypted data, subject to the purpose constraint.

Non-technical cookies

They are used to trace specific actions or recurring behavioral patterns in the use of the offered functionalities (patterns) back to determined, identified or identifiable subjects in order to group different profiles within homogeneous clusters of different amplitudes, so that it is also possible to modulate the provision of the service in an increasingly personalized manner, as well as to send targeted advertising messages, i.e., in line with the preferences expressed by the user in the context of web browsing.

A essi si riferisce l’art. 122 del Codice Privacy laddove prevede che <<l’archiviazione delle informazioni nell’apparecchio terminale di un contraente o di un utente o l’accesso a informazioni già archiviate sono consentiti unicamente a condizione che il contraente o l’utente abbia espresso il proprio consenso dopo essere stato informato con le modalità semplificate di cui all’articolo 13 Codice Privacy, comma 3>> (art. 122, comma 1, del Codice).

The Garante also categorized cookies according to the entity acting as the controller of the personal data collected by the cookie, distinguishing between "first-party" and "third-party" cookies.

First-party cookies

They are managed by the site owner. For these cookies, the duty of disclosure lies with the site owner. It is also the obligation of the latter to indicate how the cookie can be blocked, if necessary.

Third-party cookies

They are managed by a third party other than the site owner. For these cookies, the obligation to provide information and details on how to block the cookie, if any, lies with the third party. The site owner is obliged to report the url where these elements are available.

In both types of cookies (first-party or third-party), the collection of consent, which is necessary if the cookie is a profiling cookie, is done through a special banner on the home page of the site.

Types of cookies used on our website

This website uses technical cookies, which can be used without requesting the consent of the Data Subject, as they are strictly necessary for the provision of the service. In addition, third-party profiling cookies may be used, the use of which is subject to the consent directly given to such third parties by accessing the relevant information on the use of cookies. Profiling cookies may be used, by the Data Controller or the owner of the cookie itself, to store the choices made by the Data Subject, to provide customized or optimized features or to store his or her habits and preferences manifested during browsing. For example, profiling cookies may be used to offer the Data Subject online services, to send him or her advertising that takes into account his or her interests, or to prevent him or her from being offered services that he or she has refused in the past.

The next section of this Cookie Policy details the list of all cookies used by this website.

The first group lists so-called technical cookies whose use does not require user consent.

The second group lists profiling cookies.

For both groups, the following information is given for each type of cookie:

1. cookie name

2. function explicated by the cookie

3. cookie expiration.

4. indication of whether the cookie is first-party or third-party

5. if the cookie is from a third party, indication of the link through which it is possible to reach the site of the third party where the information of the third party about the processing carried out on the personal data collected through the cookie is given and the modalities for blocking the cookie are indicated