Cookies
Cookie definition
This is a small string of text that the websites visited by the user send to your terminal (usually for browser), where they are stored and then retransmitted for the same websites the next time the same user visits them. During browsing on a website, you can also receive cookies on your terminal equipment which are sent by different websites or web servers (called "third parties"), where they can
reside some elements (e.g. images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains) present on the site you are visiting.
A distinction is then made between "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies, the first once downloaded are eliminated when the browser is closed, while the last are stored on the user/visitor hard drive until they expire.
Persistent cookies they are mainly used in order to facilitate navigation in the site, to understand that sections of the site generated a certain number of pages and users, and also for the delivery of advertising formats.
Session cookies they are used in order to accelerate the analysis of traffic in the Internet and facilitate user access to the services offered by the website; are not transmitted or purchased personal data through its use, and are not used user tracking systems. Session cookies are essentially used during authentication, authorization and navigation in services that are accessed through a registration.
The profile cookies, are intended to relate specific actions or patterns of recurrent behavior in the use of the features offered with subjects specific, identified or identifiable, allowing the owner, inter alia, regulate the provision of the service in an increasingly personalized way, beyond the strictly necessary for the provision of the service and to send advertising messages directed, i.e. according to the preferences expressed by the user when browsing the web.
Primary cookies They are only readable by the domain that created them.
Third party cookies: created by domains external to this site. The software used for the site and its platform, creates a cookie per user in order to generate statistics of use.
This cookie policy is integrated with the referenced privacy policy.
However, you also have other options to browse without cookies
Disable cookies
Cookies are linked to the browser used and can be deactivated directly to from the same, refusing/revoking consent for the use of cookies. It should be taken into account that deactivating cookies may prevent the correct use of some cookies functions of the site itself.
Instructions to disable cookies from main browsers can be found in following pages:
Mozilla Firefox – Microsoft Internet Explorer – Microsoft Edge – Google Chrome – Opera – Apple Safari
Block Third Party Cookies
The cookie third party in general are not indispensable to navigate, therefore it can Reject them for default, through special functions in its browserAccording to instructions in the above links
Enable option Not Track
Option Not Track is present in most state-of-the-art browsers. Websites designed to respect this option should automatically stop collecting some your navigation data after activation. However, as mentioned, not all websites are created to respect this option (discretionary).
Enable "anonymous navigation" mode
Thanks to this function, you can navigate without leaving any trace of your browsing data in the browser. Websites will not remember you, pages you visit will not be stored in history and new cookies will be deleted.
However, the anonymous browsing function does not guarantee anonymity on the Internet once which only serves to keep your browsing data in the browser, while your browsing data will remain available to website operators and connectivity suppliers.
Eliminate cookies directly
There are special functions that allow you to do so in all browsers. However, remember that new cookies are downloaded whenever you connect to the Internet, so your elimination should be done periodically. If you wish, some browsers have automated systems intended for the periodic disposal of cookies.