Cookies

1. Premise
This website uses cookies. This document informs about the use and management of cookies. It also describes how you can disable cookies. By staying on this website, you agree to the use of cookies, as described in this document.

2. Information about cookies
Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer when you visit a website. When you return to the same website, these cookies are sent back to the website. Italian law distinguishes between the following two types of cookies (http://bit.ly/1xc6RXz):

  • "Technical cookies" are used, among other things, for computer authentication, session recording, and storing information on the website (without the use of technical cookies, some operations on the website would not be possible).
  • "Profiling cookies", on the other hand, allow the identification of user profiles and are used to send personalized advertising

Cookies can also be distinguished into "persistent" and "session" cookies. Session cookies are automatically removed from your computer when you close the browser. "Persistent" cookies remain stored on your computer until they reach their expiration date or are manually deleted. Some cookies used on the website come from third parties.

3. Cookies used on the website

3.1. Technical Cookies
To ensure functionality, the website uses technical cookies. The ASP.NET Session ID cookie allows the identification of a user session through random numbering. The cookie is deleted when the browser is closed. This cookie is essential for the operation of the website.

3.2. Third-party Cookies
Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

In the event of the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will, however, be truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. IP anonymization is active on this website.

Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Click on the following link if you want to know which cookies Google Analytics uses: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

You may refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Further information on disabling can be found on the Google advertising disable page (http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/) or on the disable page of the Network Advertising Initiative (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/).

You may object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future. Further information on Google's terms can be found here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/


Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Google+
The website uses plugins from various third-party social media providers, such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. These plugins enable the user to interact directly on the various social networks from the website.

As soon as a user clicks on one of the social media buttons while logged into their own account, information about the stay on the website is transmitted to the respective social media providers. They can store the information and link it to the user profile. To prevent this, the user must log out before clicking the button. Information on the use and processing of the data can be read in the privacy policies of the respective social media providers:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en
Google+: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
The social media plugins install cookies on the website. These cookies collect, among other things, the following data: browser data, demographic data, interaction data, visited websites, time and date, IP address. Follow these links to find out how the various social media providers handle cookie data:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies
Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170520-twitter-uses-cookies-and-similar-technologies
Google+: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/cookies/


4. Disabling cookies
All cookies can be blocked and disabled through the browser settings. You can set the browser to notify you each time before a cookie is stored. Alternatively, you can set the browser to reject all cookies or only third-party cookies. You can also delete all cookies that have already been stored. These settings must be made separately on each browser and on each computer.

If you block all cookies, we cannot guarantee that the website will function correctly. Some functions may no longer be available, and some pages may not be displayed. Cookie settings vary from browser to browser. Here you can find instructions for setting cookies in the main browsers:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/278835
Internet Explorer (mobile version): http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/web/changing-privacy-and-other-browser-settings
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
Safari (mobile version): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Blackberry: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/32004/Turn_off_cookies_in_the_browser_60_1072866_11.jsp
Android: http://www.cookie-chef.de/aktivieren-zulassen-android---browser-0/34.html
Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/