What are Cookies?

Cookies are short texts (letters and/or numbers) that allow the web server to store information on the client (type of browser, e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera…) to be reused during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or for later visits (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, based on user preferences, by the single browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Similar technologies such as, for example, web beacons, transparent GIFs and all forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, can be used to collect information on user behaviour and use of the services.

A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from the user's hard disk or transmit computer viruses or acquire email addresses. Each cookie is unique to the user's web browser. Some of the cookie functions can be delegated to other technologies. The term 'cookies' refers to cookies and all similar technologies.

Types of Cookies

Based on the features and use of cookies, cookies can be:

• Strictly necessary technical cookies. These are cookies that are essential for the correct functioning of a website and are used to manage various services related to websites (for example, a login or access to reserved functions on the websites). The duration of cookies is strictly limited to the work session or they can use a longer session to remember the visitor's choices. Disabling strictly necessary cookies can compromise the use and navigation experience of the website.
• Analytics and performance cookies. These are used to collect and analyse the traffic and use of a website anonymously. These cookies, even without identifying the user, allow, for example, to detect if the same user returns to connect at different times. They also allow you to monitor the system and improve its performance and usability. Disabling these cookies can be done without any loss of functionality and will be dealt with in detail later.
• Profiling cookies (not operational on this Site). These are permanent cookies used to identify (anonymously or not) user preferences and improve their browsing experience. For more information on these cookies not used by the Website, please visit the appropriate section on this

Technical Cookies

These are used to navigate or to provide a service requested by the user. They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the website owner. Without the use of these cookies, some operations might not be performed or would be more complex and/or less secure, such as home banking activities (viewing statements, wire transfers, paying bills, etc.). In these cases cookies, which allow the user to be identified and maintained during the session, are essential.

According to article 122, paragraph 1, of the Privacy Code (following the validation of Legislative Decree 69/2012) "technical" cookies can be used even in the absence of the consent of the interested party. Among other things, the same European body that brings together all the Data Protection Authorities of the various Member States (the so-called "Article 29" Group) clarified in Opinion 4/2012 (WP194) entitled "Exemption from consent for the use of cookies” those cookies for which it is not necessary to acquire the prior and informed consent of the user:

• cookies with data compiled by the user (session identifier), for the duration of a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases;
• authentication cookies, used for the purposes of authenticated services, for the duration of a session;
• user-centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuse, for a limited persistent duration;
• session cookies for media players, such as cookies for "flash" players, which last for a session;
• session cookies for load balancing, for the duration of a session;
• persistent cookies for customizing the user interface, for the duration of a session (or just over);
• cookies for sharing content via third party social plug-ins, for logged in members of a social network.

Analytics Cookies

The Site uses the Google Analytics service but intervention is envisaged to make the IPs anonymous with the tools offered by Google. Click on the Google Cookie Information for Google Analytics and learn more about the method by which Google - third party - uses the data of its users.

As clarified by the General Provision of the Privacy Guarantor on cookies of 8 May 2014, analytics cookies are considered the same as technical cookies when used directly by the site manager to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site itself: these are exactly the functions and purposes of the processing on this Site.

Third Party Cookies

By visiting a website you may receive cookies from sites managed by other organizations ("third parties") which may reside in Italy or abroad.

An example present on most websites is represented by the presence of YouTube videos, Google APIs, use of Google Maps, and the use of "social plugins" for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. These are parts of the visited page generated directly by the aforementioned sites and integrated into the page of the host site. The most common use of social plugins is aimed at sharing content on social networks in order to increase the user experience of the visitor.

The presence of these plugins involves the transmission of cookies to and from all sites managed by third parties. The management of information collected by "third parties" is governed by the relative information to which reference is made. To ensure greater transparency and convenience, please check out the links below, specifying that the Data Controller is not responsible for the operation of third-party cookies on this site.

• Information on the use of data
• complete information
• Cookie Guide

What Cookies do we use on this site?

The Data Controller confirms that only technical cookies necessary to navigate within the Site are operational on the Site as they allow essential functions such as validation and management of a browsing session.

The cookies used on the Site have the sole purpose of monitoring sessions and storing specific technical information regarding users who access the servers of the Data Controller who manage the Site. Certain operations on the Site could not be performed without the use of cookies, which are therefore technically necessary.

For maximum transparency, a series of technical cookies and cases of specific operation on the Site are listed below:

• cookies implanted in the user's/contractor's terminal directly (which will not be used for other purposes) such as session cookies used to choose the navigation language;
• • cookies used to statistically analyse accesses/visits to the site (so-called "analytics" cookies) which pursue exclusively statistical purposes (and not profiling or marketing) and collect information in aggregate form without the possibility of tracing the identification of the individual user. In these cases, since current legislation prescribes that for analytics cookies the interested party is provided with clear and adequate indication of the simple ways to oppose (opt-out) their installation (including any anonymisation mechanisms of the cookies themselves) , we specify that it is possible to proceed with the deactivation of analytics cookies as follows: open your browser, select the settings menu, click on the internet options, open the privacy tab and choose the desired level of cookie blocking. If you want to delete the cookies already saved in the memory, simply open the security tab and delete the history by ticking the "delete cookies" box.

Responsibility for the operation of Third Party Cookies

Reference is made to the provisions of the General Provision of the Privacy Guarantor on cookies of 8 May 2014: "There are many reasons why it is not possible to impose on the publisher the obligation to provide the information and acquire consent to the 'installation of cookies within your site even for those installed by "third parties". In the first place, the publisher should always have the tools and the economic-legal capacity to take charge of the obligations of third parties and should therefore also be able to verify from time to time the correspondence between what is declared by the third parties and their actual purposes pursued with the use of cookies.

This is made very difficult by the fact that the publisher often does not know directly all the third parties who install cookies through their site and, therefore, not even the logic underlying the related treatments. Furthermore, not infrequently between the publisher and the third parties there are subjects who play the role of concessionaires, making it in fact very difficult for the publisher to control the activity of all the subjects involved. Third-party cookies could then be modified over time by third-party suppliers and it would be impractical to ask publishers to keep track of these subsequent changes as well."

Mandatory or optional consent for the operation of cookies that do not pursue marketing purposes

It is not mandatory to acquire consent to the operation of only technical cookies or third-party or analytical cookies assimilated to technical cookies. Their deactivation and/or denial of their operation will make it impossible to navigate correctly on the Site and/or the impossibility of using the services, pages, functions or contents available therein.