Dear Data Subject, we would like to inform you that “European Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data” (hereinafter “GDPR”) provides for the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data as a fundamental right.
In accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR, therefore, we provide you with the following information regarding the Cookie Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files sent by the site to the terminal of the interested party (usually to the browser), where they are stored and then retransmitted to the site at the next visit of the same user. A cookie cannot recall any other data from the user’s hard drive, nor transmit computer viruses or acquire email addresses. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. Some of the functions of cookies may be transferred to other technologies. In this document, the term ‘cookie’ is intended to refer both to cookies themselves and to all similar technologies.
Cookies can be used to record information about your preferences, such as pages you browse or files you download from our site. website or other similar actions taken by browsing our website.
FIRST PARTY OR THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Cookies can be first or third party, where “first party” means cookies developed by the owner of the site itself, while “third party” means cookies developed by third parties with respect to the owner of the site.
NATURE OF COOKIES
Regarding the nature of cookies, there are different types:
Technical cookies. Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “transmit a communication on an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary to the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide such service.” (cf. art. 122, paragraph 1, of the Code).
They are not used for further purposes and are normally installed directly by the owner or operator of the website. They can be divided into:
• Navigation or session cookies, which ensure normal browsing and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate to access restricted areas); they are in fact necessary for the proper functioning of the site;
• Analytics cookies, similar to technical cookies where 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, language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service rendered to the same. The installation of these cookies does not require the prior consent of users (more information in the section Cookie management below).
Profiling cookies. Profiling cookies are intended to create profiles related to the user and are used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the same as part of browsing the network.
The consent of the data subject is required for the use of profiling cookies. According to the provision n. 229 of 8 May 2014, the user must be able to authorize or deny the consent to the installation of profiling cookies if they are present.
In the case of third-party cookies, the site does not have direct control over individual cookies and cannot control them (it can neither install them directly nor delete them). You can still manage these cookies through your browser settings (follow the instructions below), or the sites indicated in the “Cookie management” section.
The User is therefore invited to check on the third party website indicated below.
COOKIES INSTALLED ON THIS SITE
Cookies strictly necessary for the website to function
First of all, the technology used for the creation of this site is the widespread WordPress platform, with its plugins, which releases some technical cookies called “session” and related to other features that, For technical reasons of realization of the blog, are necessary for its proper functioning. The name and number of these cookies may vary as a result of ongoing updates to the platform’s software.
You can deactivate the use of these cookies, acting on your browser’s privacy settings as specified in this policy, but we inform you that such an operation could make the site itself completely unusable.
Cookies to store preferences, statistics and optimization
These cookies are not strictly essential, but improve the user’s experience, always without profiling purposes. Also for these cookies, you can disable their use by acting on the privacy settings of your browser as specified in this policy: browsing the site will not be prevented in this case, but the user experience could worsen.
Third-party services
As specified by the Garante Privacy, for third-party cookies installed through the site, the obligations of information and consent are incumbent on third parties, but the owner of the site, as a technical intermediary between these and users, is obliged to include in the extended information (this page) the updated links to third party policies and consent forms, where there is also the option to disable tracking for the specific service.
Google Analytics (Google Inc. – USA)
Google Analytics is a web statistics service that collects browsing data usable by the owner of the site to improve its operation. We use the Google statistics service in ANONYMOUS form, with masked IP and in aggregate mode, without cross-data and NO use of advertising functions. These cookies do not therefore provide for user profiling. These are so-called “analytics” cookies, which this third party service generates as coming from our domain. You can recognize them by the letters “_ga” and “_gat”. This data may be included in reports and shared with other Google services, never in a public form.
For more information about these cookies, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses data when using partner sites or apps.
If you want, on this deactivation page you can do “opt-out”.
Google ReCaptcha (Google Inc. – USA) Google ReCaptcha is an antispam service that verifies that the user who is about to submit data in an online form, is not an automatic bot.
For more information about these cookies, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses data when using partner sites or apps.
If you want, on this deactivation page you can do “opt-out”.
Akismet (Automattic Inc. – USA)
Akismet is an antispam service included in the WordPress flat form. Read the Privacy Policy of Akismet.
Profiling cookies
This site nor its operators do any profiling of users for advertising purposes, or for other purposes. This blog is therefore exempt from the obligation to notify the Garante (art. 37 paragraph 1, lit. D of the Privacy Code).
NOTE ON THIRD PARTY SERVICES WITH PERSISTENT LOGIN
Please note that some of the services used may recognize you if you are registered and “logged-in” to the service. For example: Google accounts (Gmail, etc.), Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts. By “logged-in”, privacy could be affected differently depending on the settings on each user’s profile: it will therefore be the responsibility of the individual user to check the privacy settings of each third party service to which he is registered and logged.
DURATION OF COOKIES
Cookies have a duration dictated by the expiration date (or by a specific action such as closing the browser) set at the time of installation. Cookies can be:
• temporary or session (session cookies): are used to store temporary information, allow you to link actions performed during a specific session and are removed from your computer when you close your browser;
• permanent (persistent cookie): are used to store information, such as your login name and password, so that you do not have to retype them each time you visit a specific site. These remain stored on your computer even after you close the browser.
Cookie management
You can disable cookies on websites by downloading software such as Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com) for your browser and disabling the use of individual cookies. Or you can turn on the “anonymous browsing” mode – this is a function that allows you to browse without leaving any trace of navigation data in your browser. This function only allows you not to keep your browsing data in the browser.
Alternatively, you can disable/delete cookies by accessing the configuration panel of your browser.
ACCEPTANCE AND DISCLAIMER OF COOKIES
By continuing to browse this site, closing the information section or clicking on any part of the page or scrolling to highlight further content, you accept the Cookie Policy and cookies will be set and collected.
You will always have the possibility to remove such cookies at any time through the modalities.
