Cookie Policy

Release no. 01 – 01st January 2021

Information to be provided ex art. 13, GDPR about cookies

This website, owned by Minella Tiziana, data controller as per Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (so called: «GDPR»), uses cookies. This notice provides you with information on how cookies are used and how the user can control them.    

By using this website, you accept the use of cookies in accordance with this notice. In particular, you accept the use of essential type cookies and functionality cookies for the purposes described below.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are information saved on the hard disc of the user’s device and are sent by the user’s browser to a Web server and concern the use of the web. So, they allow to recognise the services, the websites which are visited and the options which are chosen while browsing the web. In other words, cookies are small files of letters and numbers which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website, which recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

Cookies are not spontaneously and directly provided by the user, but they track user’s web browsing.

Cookies do many different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your experience. They can also help to ensure that advertisements displayed during the navigation are more relevant to you and your interests, avoiding nuisance adverts or not of your interest or needs.

During a website browsing, the user can receive also cookies which are sent by other websites or servers’ website (so called: «third parties») where there are some contents (e.g.: images, maps, sounds, specific links to other websites) which are displayed on the website you are browsing.There are two broad categories of cookies:

1. First party cookies, which are served directly by this website to your device.

2. Third party cookies, which are served by a third party on behalf of this website.

Depending on the purpose of their use, cookies may be distinguished into these major groups: 

a) Technical cookies are those used exclusively with a view of carrying out the transmission of a communication on an electronic communications network. This is strictly necessary to provide the user with a service requested. They are not used for further purposes. The use of these cookies can be carried out without the user’s consent. Technical cookies can be grouped into:

1) browsing or session cookies which allow users to navigate and use a website. The use of these cookies is strictly limited to transmit session identification information (random numbers generated by the server) and are used exclusively to the extent this is necessary to enable secure, efficient browsing. They are not permanently stored on the user’s device and are automatically erased by closing the browser. These cookies avoid the use of technical procedures which can be of prejudice to the user’s confidentiality while browsing the web and do not collect personal data which can identify the user

2) analytics cookies which are used only to collect information, in an anonymous way, on the number of users who visit the website and how they visit it

3) functional cookies which allow the user to navigate according to the choices and criteria selected  (e.g.: language, services) and help the website improve the services provided

b) Profiling cookies: they are aimed at creating users’ profiles. They are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences shown by the user while browsing the web. Users’ prior consent is necessary to install these cookies.

How does this website use cookies?

This website uses cookies only to allow the user to browse the website and benefit from the services provided by it. The website uses also functional cookies of third parties for the purposes just mentioned.

What are the categories of cookies used by this website and how can they be controlled by the user?

The cookies used by this website can be classified into one of the categories listed below, so that the user can know how they work, what their purpose is and how to control them.

Type of cookies: essential website cookies (session and browsing cookies)

Purpose of the cookies

These cookies are essential to enable the user to move around the website and use its features. These cookies do not collect information about the user which could be used for marketing purposes or to track where the user has been on the web. They are not permanently stored on the user’s device and are automatically erased by closing the browser. They are random numbers generated by the server and are necessary to allow a safe and effective navigation in the website. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

Cookies source: first party cookies

Type of cookies: first party functional cookies

Purpose of the cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember the user’s choices and provide enhanced and personalised features. These cookies collect anonymous information and do not track the user’s browsing activity. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

Cookies source: first party cookies

Type of cookies: third party functional cookies

Purpose of the cookies

This website uses also Widget Google Maps» service which allows the user to view the map and it is provided by Google Inc. («Google»). This service allows the website to add this content to what directly provided and displayed.

Cookies source: third party cookies 

Google Inc. http://www.google.com/intl/it/policies/privacy/ – By accessing this URL, you can make your choices about the purposes of use pursued by Google Inc..

How can the user control and erase cookies?

By reminding you that this website uses only technical cookies, if you remove or delete one or more cookies some functionalities of the website may not work properly. You can block cookies by using the options provided by your browser (see, for example: «Help», «Tools» or «Modify»). The user can directly disable one or more categories of cookies, but this does not mean that cookies are deleted in your browser. Therefore, the user must rectify the choice directly on the browser.

If the user wants to delete, disable or rectify choices about cookies installed on the device used, the user needs to access to the settings of the browser used or use the pages provided by third parties to do so.

In the following, links to third parties’ pages where the user can find information about cookies settings and how to make choices:

a) Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&topic=14666&ctx=topic

b) Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

c) Internet Explorer – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11

d) Microsoft Edge – https://privacy.microsoft.com/it-IT/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

e) Opera – https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/#tracking

f) Safari – https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_GB

If you use a mobile device, see the user’s guide. You can check the most usual user’s guides at the links listed below.

* Apple [guide: https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT201265];

* Android [guide: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it].

For further information about cookies, how to check the ones installed, how to manage or remove them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.