This website uses cookies and similar technologies to guarantee the correct operation of the procedures and the betterment of the user experience of the online applications. The present document provides details information on the usage of cookies and of similar technologies, of how they are employed and on how to manage them. Cookies are short fragments of text /letters and/or numbers) which allow the web server to memorize on the client (the browser) information that needs to be reused in the same visit to the website (visit cookies) or in a following one, even on a delay of a few days (persistent cookies). Cookies are saved, based on the preferences of the user, on the browser of the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone). Similar Technologies, like, for example, web beacon, transparent GIFs and all the other forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, are available to gather information on the behavior of the user and the use of the service. In the following paragraphs of the document we will refer to cookies and all the similar technologies using simply the term “cookie”.
Types of cookies employed
Undesirable cookies
These cookies are essential in order to navigate on the site and use its characteristic to their fullest extent, like for example have access to the different protected areas of the website. Without this cookies some of the necessary services, like the filling of the contact form, could not be carried out.
Performance cookies
These cookies gather information about how the user makes use of the website, for example which are the most viewed pages, and if there are errors messages from the page. These cookies do not record information about the identity of the visitor. All the information gathered through cookies is aggravated and anonymized. They are used only in order to better the user experience of the website.
Functionality Cookies
The cookies allow the website to record the choices made by the user (like the language, name or region of origin) and they provide advance personalized functionalities. These cookies can also be used to recall the changes made on the dimensions of the text, font or other parts of the website that are free to be changed. These can also be used in order to provide services you have required, like watching a video or add a comment on a blogpost. These informations gathered from this kind of cookies can be anonymized and rendered unable to track your activity on other websites.
Third party Cookies
While visiting a website, you can receive cookies from the website in question (“proprietary”), but also from websites managed by other organizations (“third parties”). A notable example is that of the social plug ins, like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google + and Linkedin. In this case, parts of the page are directly generated from those websites and integrated in the hosting webpage. The most common use of social plugins is finalized to the sharing of content on social networks.
The presence of these plugins entails the transmission of cookies to and from all these websites managed by third parties. The management of the information gathered by “third parties” is disciplined by the relative policies which you should refer back to. In order to have the maximum transparency, here are the links to the different policies and their management of cookies: Facebook informativa: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/ Facebook (configurazione): accedere al proprio account. Sezione privacy. Twitter informative: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514 Twitter (configurazione): https://twitter.com/settings/security Linkedin informativa: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy Linkedin (configurazione): https://www.linkedin.com/settings/ Google+ informativa: http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/cookies/ Google+ (configurazione): http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/managing/ Youtube informativa: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it&gl=it
Google Analytics This website includes some components transmitted by google analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). In this instance also, the cookies are third party managed and the information is anonymized in order to monitor and better the website usability (performance cookies). Google Analytics uses cookies to gather and analyze information on the behaviors of the users (included the IP dress of the visitor). This website does not (and does not allow third parties to) use the tool Google provides to monitor and gather private information on the identity of the visitors. Google does not link the Ip address to any other data possessed by Google nor links the IP address to the identity of the visitor. Google can also share these information with third parties when this is imposed by law or when these third parties manage information for Google. To know more about this, you can follow this link: https://www.google.it/policies/privacy/partners/. The user can selectively disable this Google Analytics function installing on their own browser the opt out component provided by google. To disable this action, we point you to this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Duration of the Cookies
Some cookies (session Cookies) are active only until the closing of the browser or the execution of the log out. Other cookies “survive” the closure of the browser and are available in the next visit of the user. These cookies are called persistent and their duration is fixed by the server the moment they are created. . In some cases an expiration date is fixed, in others it is unlimited. However, surfing the pages of this website, you can interact with websites managed by third parties and that may create and modify permeant and profiling cookies.
Management of Cookies
The user can decide if they want to accept the cookies or not, using the settings of their browser. Attention: disabling completely or partially the technical cookies may compromise the functionality of the reserved area of website. On the contrary, the enjoyment of the public content is possible even with the complete disabling of cookies. The disabling of the “third parties” cookies does not prejudice in any way the navigability. The setting can be specifically modified for different sites and web applications. Moreover, the best browsers allow you to define different settings for proprietary cookies and for third party cookies As an example, in Firefox, through the menu Tools->Opzioni ->Privacy, it is possible to access the different types of cookies and remove them. Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9 Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=it_IT