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This Website uses Cookies to make its services clear and efficent for users who view our pages.  Users who view our Website will see a minimum amount of information in common devices, whether computers or mobile devices, in the form of small text files named “cookie” saved into User’s web browser directories. By disabling cookies some of our services may not work correctly and some of our pages may not be displayed in the correct way. There are different types of cookies, some of them help to make more efficent the Website’s use, some others to enable certain funcionalities. By analizing in details our cookies they allow us to:

• memorize the inserted preferences
• avoid to insert the same information several times, as for example username and password
• analyse services and contents’ employment  to optimize the web surfing experience and the available services

Available types of Cookies

Shown below different types of cookies used in this website according to the purpose of use

Tecnical Cookies

This type of cookie is strictly needed to the correct functioning of some Website’s sections. They’re sorted by two categories: persistent and session cookies:

• persistent: once the browser is closed they don’t delete themselves but they last until a default deadline
• session cookies: they are deleted each time the browser closes

This cookies, always sent by our domain, are necessary to correctly display the website in relation to the available tecnical services, so they will always be used and sent, unless the users don’t change their browser’s settings (so invalidating the website’s page display).

Analytics Cookies

This category of cookies are displayed in order to collect information on the website use. We will use this information according to anonym statistical analysis in order to improve the Website’s employment and to make contents more interesting and relevant according to the users’ wishes. This kind of cookie collects data anonymously on the user’s activity or on the way they reached the Website. The analytics cookies are sent by the Website or by third part’s domains.

Third-party cookies

These cookies are used in order to gather information on the users’ Website employment anonymously as well as: visualized pages, time of permanence, origins of trafic, geografical source, age, gender and concerns to marketing campaigns. These cookies are sent by external third-party domains.

Cookies to integrate products and functions of third-party software

This type of cookie integrates features developed by third parties within the pages of the website such as icons and preferences expressed on social networks in order to share website contents or to use the third-party software services (such as software to generate maps and other softwares which offer additional services). These cookies are sent from third-party domains and from partner websites which offer their functionalities within the pages of the website.

Profiling Cookies

These cookies are necessary to create users profiles in order to send advertising messages according to the preferences they expressed within the pages of the website. We do not use profiling cookies on our Website. This Website, according to current legislation, is not required to seek consent for technical cookies, as necessary to provide the required services.
For all other types of cookies, consent may be expressed by the User with one or more of the following methods:

• By specific configurations of the used browser or the related computer programs used to navigate the pages that compose the Website.
• By changing settings in the use of third-party services.

Both of these solutions may prevent the user from using or viewing parts of the Website.

Web sites and third-party services

The Web site may contain links to other Web sites having their own privacy policy which may be different from the one adopted by this website. We ask you to take a look at those third-party Privacy Policies, since we are not responsible for the data gathered by them for their purposes.

Used Cookies

Following the list of technics and analytical cookies used by this site:

Name	Description	Duration
__utma	user visit time – necessary for the third-party service Google Webmaster and Analytics.	2 Years
__utmb	rate of abandonment (approximate value) of the user – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	30 Minutes
__utmc	to identify new Sessions – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	Session
__utmt	user’s source – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	10 Minutes
__utmz	user’s source – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	6 Months
_gat	This cookie name is associated with Universal Google Analytics and is used to monitor the request rate – which limits the collection of data on high traffic sites.	10 Minutes
_ga	used to distinguish users – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	2 Years
__utmt_t0	variant of __utmt to adjust the speed of request to the service – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	Session
pm-sess	variant of __utmt to adjust the speed of request to the service – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics.	Session
wordpress_	WordPress Cookie for users who enter the website.	Session
wordpress_logged_in_	WordPress Cookie for users who enter the website.	Session
wordpress_test_	WordPress Cookie for users who enter the website.	Session
wordpress_test_cookie	WordPress test cookie	Session
wp-settings-	WordPress also configures some wp-settings-[UID] Cookie. The last number is your individual ID user into the database users table. This one is used to customize the view of the administration panel and eventually the visualization of main website’s interface.	1 Year
wp-settings-time-	WordPress even sets some wp-settings- {time} – [UID] cookies. The last number is your individual user ID into the database users table. This one is used to customize the view of the administration panel and eventually the visualization of main website’s interface.	1 Year
PHPSESSID	To identify your single session on the website	Session
SESS	To insure you being recognized when you move from a page to another on the Website and that all information you entered are being saved.	Session
ginger-cookie	Memorizes the acceptance of Cookies use on the Website.	1 Month
_icl_current_language	Memorizes the language employed by the user for contents visualization.	Session
wp-woocommerce_session_	Memorizes Woocommerce sale session	48 Hours

 

Third-party Cookies

Facebook Cookies

• act – Timestamp and user action counter – Session
• c_user – Facebook ID – Session/1 month
• datr – Browser ID – 2 Years
• fr – Facebook ID and encrypted Browser ID – 1 month
• presence – State of the Chat – 1 month
• sb – Used by Facebook to improve frendship suggestion – 2 Years
• spin – Session
• wd – Dimension of browser’s screen – Session
• xs – Session Number – Session/1 month

 

HOW TO CHOOSE COOKIES USE

Whenever the user enters the Website he’s exposed to a first brief practise shown by an immediate pop-up banner on the homepage, integrated by an extended practise available for the user by a clickable link. As specified by the pop-up the continuation of browsing by the access to another website area entails Cookies use agreement.

Expect for Tecnical Cookies, other cookies installation and comparable tools is submitted to the user’s will who, as soon as he reads the pop-up brief statement, agrees to the installation by clicking on “Accept Cookies” button.
Users can disable third-party  cookies by clicking on “Disable Cookies” button, ever shown in the pop-up.

The user can revoke or change his agreement by clicking on the button shown on top of Cookie Policy page.

How to disable Cookies by configuring the browser

Chrome

1. Run the Chrome Browser
2. Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the url input window for navigation
3. Select Settings
4. Click on Show Advanced Settings
5. On “Privacy” section click on “Content settings” button
6. On “Cookies” section you can change the following cookies settings:
   • Allow data to be saved locally
   • Modify local data once the browser is closed
   • Prevent sites from setting cookies
   • Block third-party cookies and site data
   • Manage exceptions for some websites
   • Elimination of one or all cookies

For more information visit the dedicated page.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Run the Mozilla Firefox Browser
2. Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the url input window for navigation
3. Select Options
4. Select the Privacy panel
5. Click Show Advanced Settings
6. In the “Privacy” section click on the “Content settings” button
7. In the “Tracking” section you can change the following cookies settings:
   o Request sites to not make any tracking
   o Communicate to the sites the availability to be tracked
   o Do not communicate any preference regarding the tracking of personal data
   8. From the “History” section you can:
   o Enabling “Use custom settings” select to accept third-party cookies (always, from most visited sites or never) and to store them for a specified period (until they expire, when Firefox closes or ask each time)
   o Remove individual stored cookies

For more information visit the dedicated page.

Internet Explorer

1. Run the Internet Explorer Browser
2. Click the Tools button and select Internet Options
3. Click on the Privacy tab and in the Settings section change the slider according to the desired action for cookies:
   o Block all cookies
   o Allow all cookies
   o Selection of the sites from which to obtain cookies: move the cursor to an intermediate position so as not to block or allow all cookies, then click on Sites, in the Web Site Address box enter a website and then click on Block or Allow

For more information visit the dedicated page.

Safari 6

1. Run the Safari Browser
2. Click on Safari, select Preferences and press Privacy
3. In the Block Cookies section, specify how Safari must accept cookies from websites.
4. To view which sites have stored cookies click on Details

For more information visit the dedicated page.

IOS Safari (mobile devices)

1. Run the iOS Safari Browser
2. Tap on Settings and then Safari
3. Tap on Block Cookies and choose from the various options: “Never”, “Third party and advertisers” or “Always”
4. To delete all cookies stored by Safari, tap on Settings, then on Safari and then on Delete Cookies and data

For more information visit the dedicated page.

Opera

1. Run the Opera Browser
2. Click on the Preferences then on Advanced and finally on Cookies
3. Select one of the following options:
   o Accept all cookies
   o Accept cookies only from the site you visit: third-party cookies that are sent from a domain other than the one you are visiting will be rejected
   o Never accept cookies: any cookie won’t be saved

For more information visit the dedicated page.

How to disable cookies from third-party services

• Google services
• Facebook
• Twitter
• AddThis privacy policy
• AddThis Opt-out page