COOKIE POLICY

On this site we use cookies or similar technologies which store information about you when you are browsing. In general, these technologies may serve for different purposes, such as understanding how you use our site, identifying users, or personalizing the way we show you the site’s content.  

We offer to you different configuration options to install or not the cookies in your browser in whatever connection that you realize, both the first and following. We explain this to you in this document. 

 

  1. What is a cookie and how does it work? 

A cookie is a small data file that can be placed on your device when a user visits our site. The cookie asks your browser if it can store to remember some information like language preference or your login information, if any. 

We use first-party and third-party cookies whose purposes are to provide strictly web functionalities and to analyze the performance and uses in our site, respectively. 

It is possible that the cookies will collect your personal data if you accept them, like your IP address and a visitor’s identifier. We will only use this information for the purposes indicated, not to further purposes. You can find more information about your data processing in our Privacy Policy. 

Hereunder, we explain to you the uses realized with the cookies utilized.  

 

  1. What cookies do we use?

2.1. Technical and functionality cookies

These types of cookies are strictly necessary to the site works, so we do not need your consent to set up on your browser. So, you can not reject them. 

These cookies are essential to provide you with services you have requested, which means they cannot be switched off through the privacy settings link, and cookies that are used to recognize you and remember your preferences or settings when you return to our site, so that we can provide you with a more personalized experience. For example, if you are based in Spain, we will remember this and make sure that you receive the Spanish homepage when you visit our site, rather than the Italian or French homepage. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

We do not use only these types of cookies, but we may set up performance and analytics cookies. Therefore, below we inform you of the cookies that we are using on our site according to Guidelines of the European Data Protection Board and the before Article 29 Working Party, aiming to identify and to explain clearly their typology and functions.

2.2. Analytics and performance cookies

Here we find the cookies which measure how often you visit our sites and how you use them. We use this information to quantify the visits which the site receives to get a better sense of how our users engage with our content and to improve, so that users have a better experience. For example, we collect information about which of our pages are most frequently visited, and by which types of users. We use third-party cookies to help with purposes.

Analytics and Performance Cookies 

Provider (third-party)

Cookie name

Details

Retention period

Google

Analytics

_gid

It allows identifying the users.

1 day

_ga

It allows identifying the users.

2 years

_gat

It uses to limits the requests received. 

1 minutes

Matomo

pk_ses.1.1b9f

It stores information about the visit. 

30 minutes

pk_ref.1.1b9f

Stores information on attribution

6 months

pk_id.1.1b9f

It stores a few details of the visitor, such an ID. 

13 months

  1. International data transfers

Some cookies that we use are from third-parties, and they may transfer your personal information to countries without an adequate level of protection. You can find more information about this in their privacy policy in this link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

 

  1. How to manage the cookies on our site

You can set up or reject the cookies through the banner that you can find in the footer of our site by clicking the Privacy settings link. These Privacy settings allow you to accept or reject the cookies.

If you accept them, and then you want to withdraw your consent, it is possible through your browser’s settings. It is also possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies altogether by changing your browser’s cookie settings. You can usually find all these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. The following links may be helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser. 

 

  1. Which is the retention period?

The retention period is indicated in the table of clause 2.2 of this notice. When the retention period ends, the cookies may be renovated if you accept its use again. 

 

  1. Cookies Policy updates 

We may update this notice anytime. Such update shall apply since its publication on our site. So, we recommend regularly to verify this Cookie notice. 

However, if we shall use different cookies which need your consent, we shall inform you in detail before we collect your consent and personal data. 

 

Last review: July 2022