When you visit a website, it can store or retrieve information on your browser, mainly in the form of cookies. This information may be about you, your preferences or your device and is primarily used to make the site work as you expect.
Usually the information does not directly identify you, but it can offer you a more personalized web experience.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are text files containing minimal information sent to the browser and stored on the user's computer, mobile phone or other device, every time a website is visited. At each connection, the cookies send information back to the reference site.
Cookies can be permanent (persistent cookies) if they remain on the computer until the user deletes them, or temporary (session cookies) if they are deactivated when the browser is closed. Cookies can also be first-party cookies if set by the visited site, or third-party cookies if inserted from a site other than the one visited.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies to improve the functionality of our sites, allow the user to move easily between pages, remember his preferences and to guarantee the user an always optimal browsing experience.
COOKIES USED AND THEIR PURPOSE
The cookies used on our sites can be cataloged as follows (see the cookie guide drawn up by the ICC, International Chamber of Commerce):
Technical cookies - Indispensable or necessary
These cookies are essential to allow the user to move around the site and use the requested services, such as access to protected areas of the site.
Essential cookies are first party cookies and can be permanent or temporary. We use this type of cookie to manage the registration and access phase by users. Without these cookies the user would not be able to access the requested services and our sites would not function properly.
Functionality or preference cookies
These cookies allow the site to remember the choices of visitors (for example the user name, language or country of access) and provide more personalized features. Functionality cookies can also be used to provide services requested by the user, such as accessing a video or inserting a comment on a blog. The information used by these cookies is anonymous and it is not possible to track users' navigation on other sites.
These cookies can be permanent or temporary, of first or third parties. Basically, these cookies remember the individual choices made by users to improve their browsing experience.
Technical cookies - Performance or statistics
Performance cookies collect information on the use of a site by users, such as which pages are visited most frequently. These cookies do not store identification data of individual visitors, but only aggregate and anonymous data.
These cookies can be permanent or temporary, first or third party. Basically, these cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited and the advertisements displayed.
Marketing - advertising cookies
These cookies are used to limit the views of an advertisement by the user and to monitor the distribution of advertising campaigns.
Advertising cookies are used to manage advertising on the site.
Advertising cookies are placed by third parties, such as advertisers and their agents and can be permanent or temporary. In practice, these are cookies related to advertising services provided by third parties on our site.
ATTENTION
Some sections of our sites are accessible only by enabling cookies; by deactivating them it is possible that the user no longer has access to some contents and cannot fully appreciate the functionality of our websites.
By using the site without rejecting cookies and similar technologies online, users consent to the use of these technologies on our part for the collection and processing of information.
HOW TO MANAGE AND DEACTIVATE COOKIES
To limit, block or delete cookies, just change the settings of your web browser. The procedure varies slightly with respect to the type of browser used. For detailed instructions, click on the link of your browser.
