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Cookies are small text strings that the sites visited by the user send to his terminal (usually to the browser), where they are stored before being re-transmitted to the same sites at the next visit by the same user. While browsing a site, the user may also receive cookies on his terminal that are sent from different sites or web servers (so-called "third parties"), on which some elements may reside (such as, for example, images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains) present on the site that the same user is visiting.
Thanks to cookies, the server sends information that will be reread and updated every time the user returns to the site. In this way the website will be able to automatically adapt to the user, improving the browsing experience. Furthermore, cookies provide the site manager with anonymous information on user navigation, also to obtain statistical data on the use of the site and improve navigation. The information collected through cookies can also be used to build a "profile" of the preferences expressed by the user during navigation, in order to personalize commercial promotion messages.

Types of cookies
On the basis of the legislation on the protection of personal data, cookies can therefore be divided into "technical", for the use of which the user's consent is not required, and "profiling" for promotional purposes, for which it is instead it is necessary to collect the user's consent. Even for the use of "third party" cookies it is necessary to inform the user and obtain their consent.
In detail:

Technical cookies
This type of cookie is further divided into:

Browsing/session cookies. These are essential cookies for navigating the site using all its features, such as maintaining the session and accessing reserved areas. They are strictly necessary, as without them it would not be possible to provide the requested services. These cookies do not collect information to be used for commercial purposes.

Analytics type cookies. They collect and analyze information on the use of the site by visitors (pages visited, number of accesses, time spent on the site, etc.) to optimize the management of the site. These cookies do not collect information that could identify the user in any way.

Functionality cookies. They allow the user to navigate according to a series of selected criteria (for example the language) in order to provide the user with a better browsing experience. The information collected by this type of cookie is anonymous.

The website works optimally if technical cookies are enabled; it is however possible to decide not to allow the use of cookies on your computer by changing the settings of the browser used. However, it should be kept in mind that if cookies are disabled, some features of the site may be disabled.

Profiling cookies
Through cookies, information relating to the user can be collected to be used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user when browsing the net (profile).

Due to the impact on the user's private sphere of the use of such techniques for profiling purposes, the collection of the user's consent is necessary (art. 122 of Legislative Decree 196/2003).

In the event that cookies are used for these purposes, a specific summary information (banner) will be proposed on the site also containing an indication of the method through which it is possible to express consent to the use of profiling cookies, according to the provisions contained. in the provision of the Privacy Guarantor "Identification of simplified methods for the information and the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies - 8 May 2014". The profiling data is kept for twelve months.

Third party cookies
By browsing the site, cookies may be installed by other sites, accessible from the site but managed by other subjects (third parties). In this case the site owner only acts as a technical intermediary between the user and these sites.

Disabling and deleting cookies
The settings of the browser used by the user to navigate allow both the cancellation and the possibility of avoiding the installation of cookies on the electronic device used.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
1. Click on "Tools" at the top of the browser window and select "Internet Options" and then click on the "Privacy" tab;
2. To activate cookies, the Privacy level must be set to "Medium" or below;
3. By setting the Privacy level above "Medium" the use of cookies will be disabled