Cookies

What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing minimum information sent to the browser and stored on your computer, mobile phone or other user's device whenever you visit a website. At each link the cookies refer the information to the reference site.

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 closed. Cookies can also be first-party cookies if set from the visited site, or third-party cookies if they are placed from a site other than the visited one.

How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to improve the functionality of our sites, allowing the user to easily navigate through the pages, remember their preferences, and to provide the user with an optimum navigation experience.

Cookies used and their purpose
The cookies used on our sites can be cataloged as follows (see the cookie guide written by ICC, International Chamber of Commerce):

The indispensable cookies
These cookies are critical to allowing the user to navigate to the site and use the required services, such as access to protected site areas.

Indispensable cookies are first-party cookies and may be permanent or temporary. We use this type of cookie to manage the user registration and access phase. Without these cookies, the user could not access the requested services and our sites would not work properly.

Performance cookie
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 in anonymous form.

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 of permanent or temporary type, of first or third parties. In essence, these cookies collect anonymous information on the visited pages and the displayed ads.

Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the site to remember visitors' choices (such as your username, language, or country of access) and provide more customized 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 you can not trace users browsing on other sites.

We use these cookies for:
- remember if a particular service has already been provided to you
- Improve your overall experience on the site by remembering your user preferences.

These cookies may be permanent or temporary, of first or third parties. In essence, these cookies recall the individual choices made by users to enhance their navigation experience.

Advertising cookies
These cookies are used to limit the views of a commercial ad by the user and to monitor the distribution of the advertising campaigns.

Advertising cookies are used to manage advertising on the site.

Advertising cookies are placed by third parties, such as advertisers and their agents, and may be permanent or temporary. In practice, these are cookies related to the advertising services provided by third parties on our site.

Other cookies from third parties
Some pages of our site may contain content such as YouTube or Facebook. We do not control the cookies used by these services, so we invite you to access third-party sites for the relevant information.

How to manage and deactivate cookies
To limit, block, or delete cookies, just take action on your web browser settings. The procedure varies slightly with the type of browser you are using. For detailed instructions, click on your browser's link.

Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Cookies-and-cache/G...

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=...

Opera: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/pr...

Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042

Safari iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=it_I...

If the browser you are using is not one of those, select the "Help" function on your web browser for information on how to proceed.

Attention: Some sections of our sites are accessible only by enabling cookies; Deactivating them, you may no longer have access to certain content and may not fully appreciate the functionality of our websites.

To learn more about managing cookies on your mobile browser, see the specific user manual.

By using the site without refusing cookies and similar online technologies, users agree to use such technologies for us to collect and process information.