Extended information on Cookies

Some general information on cookies is provided below, preparatory to understanding the Owner’s extended information on the subject.
Cookies are small text strings that sites visited by the user send to the user’s terminal (usually to the browser), where they are stored in order to be retransmitted to the same sites the next time the same user visits.

In the course of browsing a site, the user may also receive on his terminal equipment cookies that are sent by different sites or web servers (so-called “third parties”), on which some elements (such as, for example, images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains) present on the site he is visiting may reside.
Cookies, usually present in users’ browsers in very large numbers and sometimes also with characteristics of wide temporal persistence, are used for different purposes: performing computer authentication, monitoring sessions, storing information about specific configurations regarding users accessing the server, etc.

The Data Protection Authority in its May 8, 2014 Provision on the subject identified two macro-categories: “technical” cookies and “profiling” cookies.
Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the contracting party or user to provide such service” (see Art. 122(1) of the Code). They are not used for any further purposes and are normally installed directly by the website owner or operator. They can be divided into navigation or session cookies, which ensure normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate to access restricted areas); analytics cookies, assimilated to technical cookies where used directly by the website operator to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the website itself; functionality cookies, which allow the user to navigate according to a set of selected criteria (for example, language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service rendered to the same.

For the installation of such cookies there is an obligation to give information pursuant to Article 13 of the Code, while the prior consent of users is not required.
Profiling cookies, on the other hand, are aimed at creating profiles related to the user and are used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the same in the context of web browsing. Due to the invasiveness they can have within the private sphere of users, European and Italian regulations provide that the user must be adequately informed about their use and thus express his/her valid consent (see art. 122, I paragraph, of the Code).

Technical cookies are operational on this site that are necessary to navigate within it and allow essential functions such as authentication, validation, management of a browsing session and fraud prevention.

They allow, for example: to identify whether the user has regularly accessed areas of the site that require prior authentication or user validation and session management related to the various services and applications or data storage for secure mode access.

For maximum transparency, a number of technical cookies and instances of specific operation on the site are listed below:

• cookies installed in the user’s terminal(s) directly (which will not be used for further purposes) such as session cookies used, authentication cookies, cookies for multimedia content such as flash player that do not exceed the duration of the session, customization cookies (e.g., for choosing the navigation language, etc.). These cookies are not persistent and will be deleted when you close your browser;
• cookies used to statistically analyze accesses/visits to the site (so-called “analytics” cookies) that pursue only statistical purposes (and not also profiling or marketing) and collect information in aggregate form without the possibility of tracing the identification of the individual user. This site uses a Google Analytics statistical analysis system. In these cases, since current legislation requires that for analytics cookies, the data subject be provided with a clear and adequate indication of the simple ways to object (opt-out) to their implantation (including any mechanisms for anonymizing the cookies themselves), the Data Controller specifies that it is possible to proceed with the deactivation of Google analytics as follows: open your browser, select the settings menu, click on internet options, open the tab relating to privacy and choose the desired level of cookie blocking. If you want to delete the cookies already saved in memory, simply open the security tab and delete the history by checking the “delete cookies” box.

More specifically and currently the relevant cookies are as follows:

Cookie name	Type of cookie	Purposes
JSESSIONID	Of session	Identification of the user’s http session.
cb-enabled	Of session	Stores consent to the use of cookies.

 

Below, the Owner indicates the third-party cookies (with which it has entered into agreements for installation through this site) that are currently used for marketing purposes and indicates updated links to the disclosures and consent forms of those parties.

Cookie name	Type of cookie	Purposes	Third Party storing and accessing user information collected with cookies	Link to site where to view Third Party privacy policy
Google Analytics	Third Party – Persistent	Statistical analysis and reporting	Google	http://www.google.it/analytics/learn/privacy.html

 

Below, the Owner recalls the possibilities for the user (pursuant to art. 122, paragraph 2, of the Code) to manifest his or her options regarding the use of cookies by the site also through the browser settings and also indicates the procedure to be performed to configure these settings.