Further information about cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost all websites. The usefulness of the cookie is that the site is able to remember your visit when you navigate again in that page. Even if many people do not know it, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.

What is NOT a cookie?

It is not a virus, not a Trojan, not a worm, not spam, not spyware, not a pop-up window.

What information does a cookie store ?

Cookies do not store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they store are of a technical nature, personal preferences, content personalization, etc.

The web server does not associate you as a person, but with your web browser. In fact, if you browse regularly with Internet Explorer and if you try to browse the same web with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it is effectively associating the browser, not the person.

What kind of cookies are there?

The main types of cookies used on the Internet are:

  • Technical cookies: They are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human being or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing, they are the basis for the functioning of any dynamic web site.
  • Analysis cookies : they collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use most, the products consulted, the frequency of use, the language, etc.
  • Advertising cookies: they visualize advertising based on your navigation, country of origin, language, etc.

What are our own and third party cookies ?

Your own cookies are those generated by the site you are visiting and third party cookies are those generated by third party services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

What happens if you disattivi i cookie?

To help you understand the scope of cookie disabling , here are some examples:

  • You may not share content from this website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
  • The web site will not be able to adapt the contents to your personal preferences, as often happens in online stores.
  • You cannot access the personal area of that web site, such as my account, my profile or my orders.
  • The website will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, which will make it difficult for the site to be competitive.
  • You won’t be able to write on a blog, you won’t be able to upload photos, post comments, rate or evaluate the contents.
  • You won’t be able to show sectorial advertising, which will reduce the public web entries.
  • All social networks use cookies,if you disable them you will not be able to use any social network.

The cookiepossonoessere cancellati?

Yes. Not only delete, but also block, in general or in particular for a specific domain.

To delete cookies from a web site it is necessary to go to the browser settings and it is possible to find those associated with the domain in question and delete them.

Here’s how to access cookie to a particular cookie in theChrome browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:

  1. Go to Settings or Preferences using the File menu or by clicking on the customization icon at the top right.
  2. You will see several sections, click on the option Show advanced options.
  3. Vai a Privacy, Impostazioni contenuto.
  4. Select all cookies and site data.
  5. A list will appear with all the cookies set by domain. To facilitate the search of the cookies for a given domain, insert the index in the field Near cookieinpart or by intero.
  6. After you have followed this filter, one or more cookies from the requested web site will appear on the screen. Now you just have to select it and press the X to proceed to its removal.

To access the cookie settings of the Internet Explorer browser, please follow the procedure below (may vary depending on the browser version):

  1. Vai a Strumenti, Opzioni Internet
  2. Fare clic su Privacy.
  3. Turn the scrolling device to adjust the desired level of privacy.

To access the cookie settings of the Firefox browser follow the procedure below (may vary depending on the browser version):

  1. Go to Options or Preferences depending on the operating system.
  2. Fare clic su Privacy.
  3. In Chronology select Use customized settings for the chronology.
  4. Now you will see the cookieoption ,you can activate or deactivate it according to your preferences.

To access the cookie settings of the Safari browser for OSX, please follow the procedure below (may vary depending on the browser version):

  1. Vai a Preferenze,quindi Privacy.
  2. Here you will see the Cookie Block option to set the type of block you want to follow.

To access the cookie settings of the Safari browser for iOS, please follow the procedure below (may vary depending on the browser version):

  1. Vai su Impostazioni,quindi Safari.
  2. Go to Privacy and Security,you will see the block cookies of the options to set the type of block you want to follow.

To access the browser cookie settings for Android devices please follow the procedure below (may vary depending on browser version):

  1. Execute the browser and press the Menubutton ,then press Impositions.
  2. Go to Security and Privacy, you will see the Accetta cookie option to enable or disable the control box.

To access the browser cookie settings for Windows Phone devices, please follow the procedure below (may vary depending on browser version):

  1. Apri Internet Explorer,poi Altro, quindi Impostazioni
  2. You can now select or deselect the cookie consent control box .