Last updated January 1, 2024
When we use the word “cookies” in this Policy, we mean any tracking technology that stores or accesses information on the user’s device, including any SDK, tracking pixel, HTML5 local storage, local shared object, and fingerprinting technique.
Cookies are usually classified:
This classification is important because different legal requirements apply based on how the cookie is classified. Below you will find the types of cookies and tracking technologies as classified with some practical examples.
| Technical cookies Technical cookies are used solely for the purpose of transmitting messages over an electronic communication network, or to provide a service specifically requested by the user. In other words, technical cookies are essential for the correct functioning of the website and to provide the service offered to and requested by the user. For example, technical cookies can be used to monitor sessions, to store specific server access information related to the user configuration, to facilitate the use of online content, or to keep track of items in a shopping cart or information used to fill in a form. Technical cookies include the functional cookies you might find mentioned while browsing the Website.
| Technical cookies do not need your consent. |
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| Analytics cookies |
| Analytics cookies may be used to assess the effectiveness of an information society service provided by a publisher, to evaluate and improve the design of a website or to help measure its traffic. |
| In other words, analytics cookies may be used to track the traffic and performance of a website, by collecting aggregate data on the number of visitors and how they interact with the website to improve its services. |
| For example, analytics cookies may collect information about how users access a website, including the number of visitors, possibly grouped by geographical area, time slot, how long visitors stay on the site for, what parts of the site they visit or other characteristics, the number of pages visited or the number of users who viewed a particular section. |
| Please consider that if analytics cookies are properly anonymized, they can be installed without your previous explicit consent. |
| Profiling cookies |
| Profiling cookies may be used to trace specific actions or recurring behavioral patterns in the use of the offered functionalities back to specific, identified or identifiable individuals for the purpose of grouping the different profiles within homogeneous, multi-sized clusters. This is aimed in turn to enable a company to provide increasingly customized services beyond what is strictly necessary for the delivery of the service and also send targeted advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user during their web-browsing activities. n other words, profiling cookies may be used to convey behavioral advertising, measure the effectiveness of ads, or to customize the services offered in line with the user’s monitored behavior. For example, profiling cookies can be used to create user profiles and offer content in line with the user’s interests, or to send targeted ads or messages. |
| Profiling cookies include the performance, marketing and social media cookies you might find mentioned while browsing the Website. Profiling cookies need your explicit consent. |
| First-party cookies
| Cookies are installed directly by the website that the user is browsing. In other words, the publisher of the website installs the cookies directly without using any third-party publishers and processes the information thereby acquired. |
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| Third-party cookies |
| Third-party cookies are set by external providers other than those of the website that the user is browsing. In other words, the publisher of the website installs the cookies indirectly, using third-party publishers and processes the information thereby acquired. For the purposes of this Policy, third party cookies include any tracker which, although directly published by us, is provided by third parties which receive or otherwise process for their own purposes the information acquired through these cookies when you visit the Website. For further information, please refer to the privacy policy of such third party as indicated in the cookie table. The data collected by these third parties is governed by their own specific privacy policies, terms and conditions, or cookie policies to which we have no control over. When our website hosts third-party non-anonymized analytics cookies and/or profiling cookies, you will be asked to consent to such third-party cookies when landing on our websites for the first time, via a specific cookie banner. You can manage and delete these third-party cookies at any time by accessing the privacy policies of the third parties as indicated in the following section ("Types of cookies used by the Website”). |
| Session cookies
| Session cookies expire when the user's browsing session expires. |
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| Permanent cookies |
| Permanent cookies last longer than a single browsing session. |