How we use cookies in our websites
We use cookies and similar tools in our website to improve both the website’s performance and user’s experience. This document explains how this is accomplished.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files a website stores on your computer or mobile device upon the first visit of a website or page. Cookies allow the website to recognize the device the next time this site is browsed. Web beacons or similar files are based on the same principle. In this document, we use the term “cookies” to refer to all files gathering information according to the aforementioned pattern.
Cookies serve many purposes. They can i.e. help suggesting your username and preferences, they are able to analyze our website’s performance or to recommend the contents we believe best suit you.
Some cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click on “remember me” when the authentication is being executed, your username will be saved in a cookie. Most cookies do not gather information able to identify you but they collect more general information, such as the way users have reached our website, how they use it or the generic position of a user.
What kind of cookies does this website use?
Our cookies, in general, serve three different purposes:
Some cookies are essential to the functioning of our website. Some of them, for instance, allow us to identify users and make sure that registered users can access reserved pages. Should you disable cookies you will not be able to access all the contents of the reserved pages.
We use other cookies to analyse how users move around our website and to monitor its performance, thus enabling us to provide both a high-quality experience and a customized offer. Furthermore, we can rapidly identify and solve the problems that may occur. Cookies can be used e.g. to hold a record of the most popular pages, of the most effective pattern to link them and to identify the causes of some errors that may occur.
We use this kind of cookies to save your preferences. These cookies allow you e.g. to save yourself the trouble of typing your username every time you access the website and are used to load your preferences in terms of website’s customization. We also use these cookies to provide advanced services, i.e. the possibility of watching a video online or to post a comment on a blog.
Does somebody else use the cookies of this website?
We allow third parties to provide cookies falling within the three aforementioned categories. For instance, just like many other companies, we use Google Analytics to monitor the traffic on our website.
We do not use third-party cookies for market research purposes.
We do not use cookies to monitor conversions, to improve the functionality of the website and to control the terms and conditions of our copyright policy are observed.
Is a user of our website allowed to block cookies?
As previously explained, cookies help us to make the most of our website.
The first time you access our website you will be shown a superimposed message telling you that, by browsing our website, you accept the use of cookies. If you do not accept cookies you are not prevented from visiting our site but some contents will not be visible/available to you.
For further information concerning how companies use cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
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