What are cookies?

Cookies are users data fragment stored locally on own computer and used to enhance the web navigation. These informations are exchanged between a web site and the user’s browser and they allow the web sites to recognize your computer and to send to it personalized informations based on your navigation sessions.

Cookies are used for various activities, automatic authentication, to track sessions, to store information useful to enhance the web navigation or the user experience.

There are different kinds of cookies:

Technical cookie: technical cookies are those used solely for “carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network or to the extent strictly necessary to the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or User to provide that service”.

Analysis Cookies: they are used for statistical analysis, to enhance the web site and simplify its use and, besides, to monitor the proper operation. This kind of cookies collects anonymous informations about the users activities on the web site. This kind of cookies are issued by solely third party.

Third-Party cookies (for instance: functional cookie/social network/media streaming): this kind of cookies is used to integrate into the web site features developed by third parts, like icons and preferences expressed within the social networks with the porpouse of share web site’s contents or to use third-party’s software services (maps or softwares that offer additional services). These cookies are issued by third-party domains and by partner websites which offer their services within this web site.

Profiling Cookies: their scope is to create user profiles and the are used to send advertisement message according to preferences stated by the user about the web navigation. Due to the particular invasiveness that this kind of devices can have within the users’ privacy, the italian and european law establishes the user must be satisfactorily informed about the use of this kind of cookies in order that he can express his consent.