What Cookies are
Cookies are text files containing minimum information sent to the browser and stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device whenever you visit a website. At each link, the cookies refer the information to the site in question.
Cookies may be permanent (persistent cookies) if they remain on your computer until the user deletes them, or temporary (session cookies) if they are disabled when the browser is shut down. Cookies can also be first-party cookies if set from the visited site, or third-party cookies if placed from a site other than the one being visited.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to improve the functionality of our site, allow the user to easily navigate through the pages, remember the user’s preferences, and provide optimal navigation to the same.
Cookies used and their purpose
Cookies used on our site can be categorised as follows (see the ICC – International Chamber of Commerce cookie guide):
Essential cookies
These cookies are essential to allow the user to navigate on the website and use the services, such as access to a website’s protected areas.
Essential cookies are first-party cookies and may be permanent or temporary. We use this type of cookie to manage user registration and the access phase. Without these cookies, the user could not access the services and our websites would not work properly.
Performance cookies:
Performance cookies collect information about how users use a site, such as what pages they visit most frequently. These cookies do not store individual visitors’ identity data, but only aggregate data and anonymous data.
We use these cookies for:
– statistical purposes, to understand how our sites are used
– measure the distribution of our advertising campaigns.
These cookies can be permanent or temporary, of first or third party. Essentially, these cookies collect anonymous information on the visited pages and the displayed advertisements.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow the site to remember visitors’ choices (such as username, language, or country of access) and provide more customised features. Feature cookies can also serve to provide user-requested services, such as accessing a video or posting a comment to a blog. The information used by these cookies is anonymous and cannot trace user browsing to other sites.
We use these cookies to:
– remember if a particular service has already been provided to you
– improve the overall experience on the site by remembering your user preferences.
These cookies can be permanent or temporary, of first or third parties. In essence, these cookies recall the individual choices made by users to improve navigation experience.
Advertising cookies:
These cookies are used to limit the views of advertisements by users and to monitor the distribution of advertising campaigns.
Advertising cookies are used to manage advertising on the website.
Advertising cookies are placed by third parties, such as advertisers and their agents, and they may be permanent or temporary. In practice, these are cookies related to the third-party advertising services provided by our website.
Other Third-Party Cookies
Some pages of our site may contain services such as YouTube or Facebook. We do not control the cookies used by these services, so we invite you to access the site of these third parties for the relevant information.
You can use your web browser settings to limit, block, or delete cookies. The procedure varies slightly depending on the type of browser you are using.
Caution: Some sections of our site are accessible only by enabling cookies; disabling them may mean the user can no longer access certain content and may not fully appreciate the functions.
By using the site without refusing cookies or similar online technologies, users agree to use the same for us to collect and process information.