1 What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that the sites visited by users send to their terminals, where they are stored before being retransmitted to the same sites on the next visit. The cookies of the so-called "third parties" are, instead, set by a website other than the one the user is visiting. This is because on each site there may be elements (images, maps, sounds, specific links to web pages of other domains, etc.) that reside on servers other than that of the site visited.

2. What are cookies used for?

Cookies are used for different purposes: performing computer authentication, monitoring sessions, storing information on specific configurations regarding users accessing the server, storing preferences, etc.

3. What are “technical” cookies?

These are cookies that are used to perform navigation or provide a service requested by the user. They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the owner of the website. Without the use of these cookies, some operations could not be performed or would be more complex, they are essential in navigation standards.

4. Are analytics cookies “technical” cookies?

No. The Privacy Guarantor has specified that they can be assimilated to technical cookies only if used for the purpose of optimizing the site directly by the owner of the site itself, who can collect information in aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the site. Under these conditions, the same rules apply to analytics cookies, in terms of information and consent, as those provided for technical cookies.

5. What are “profiling” cookies?

These are cookies used to track the user's navigation on the web and create profiles on his tastes, habits, choices, etc. With these cookies, advertising messages can be transmitted to the user's terminal in line with the preferences already expressed by the same user during online navigation.

6. Is the user's consent required for the installation of cookies on his/her terminal?

It depends on the purposes for which cookies are used and, therefore, whether they are “technical” or “profiling” cookies. For the installation of technical cookies, the consent of users is not required, while it is necessary to provide the information (this one that you are reading). Profiling cookies, on the other hand, can be installed on the user’s terminal only if the user has expressed his/her consent after being informed in a simplified manner.

7. How should the website owner provide simplified information and request consent to the use of profiling cookies?

As established by the Guarantor in the provision indicated in question no. 4, the information must be set on two levels. When the user accesses a website (on the home page or on any other page), a banner must immediately appear containing an initial “brief” information, the request for consent to the use of cookies and a link to access a more “extended” information. On this page, the user can find more information.

8. Use of cookies on this Site This Site only uses “technical” cookies or “analytics” cookies.

“Technical” cookies are used for the correct functioning of the connection (e.g. scrolling between pages and the possibility of saving the address of a specific page in the “favorite” links of the browser used) This Site uses the features offered by the Google Analytics service. Google Analytics uses its own “cookies” to collect and analyze anonymous information on the behavior of use of websites. This information (including the user’s IP address) is collected by Google Analytics, which processes it for the purpose of preparing reports for internal use, regarding the activities carried out on our website. Google does not associate the IP address with any other data in its possession nor does it seek to connect an IP address with the identity of a user.

9. How can the acquisition of consent through the use of the banner be documented?

To keep track of the consent acquired, the owner of the site can use a specific technical cookie, a system that is not particularly invasive and does not require further consent. In the presence of such "documentation", it is not necessary for the brief information to be re-proposed at the user's second visit to the site, without prejudice to the possibility for the latter to deny consent and/or modify, at any time and in an easy manner, their options, for example by accessing the extended information, which must therefore be linkable from each page of the site.

10. Can online consent to the use of cookies be requested only through the use of the banner?

No. The owners of the sites always have the possibility of resorting to methods other than those identified by the Guarantor in the provision indicated above, provided that the chosen methods present all the requirements for the validity of the consent required by law.

11. Does the obligation to use the banner also apply to owners of sites that only use technical cookies?

No. In this case, the owner of the site can provide information to users in the manner he deems most appropriate, for example, also by inserting the relevant information in the privacy policy indicated on the site.

12. What should the “extended” information indicate?

It must contain all the elements required by law, analytically describe the characteristics and purposes of the cookies installed by the site and allow the user to select/deselect individual cookies. It must include the updated link to the information and consent forms of third parties with which the owner has stipulated agreements for the installation of cookies through its site. Finally, it must recall the possibility for the user to express their options on cookies also through the settings of the browser used.

13. Who is required to provide information and request consent for the use of cookies?

The owner of the website that installs profiling cookies. For third-party cookies installed through the site, the obligations of information and consent are the responsibility of the third parties, but the owner of the site, as a technical intermediary between them and the users, is required to insert in the "extended" information the updated links to the information and consent forms of the third parties themselves.

14. Should the use of cookies be notified to the Guarantor?

Profiling cookies, which usually persist over time, are subject to the notification obligation, while cookies that have different purposes and that fall into the category of technical cookies, do not have to be notified to the Guarantor.

15. Disabling technical cookies By “default” almost all web browsers are set to automatically accept cookie tracking.

Visitors can still change the default configuration of their browser. However, disabling or deleting cookies may prevent optimal use of some areas of the site. In any case, if visitors want to decide from time to time whether or not to accept cookies, it is also possible to configure their browser to generate a warning each time a cookie is saved. It is reiterated that the total or partial disabling of technical cookies may compromise the use of the navigation functions of the websites visited. In any case, the visitor can decide whether or not to accept cookies by changing the security settings of his browser, as indicated in the technical specifications accessible from the following links:

– Chrome
– Firefox
– Internet Explorer
– Opera
– Safari