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As of today, the legal framework of reference is constituted by:

• The provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC (also Privacy Directive") as amended and transposed into national law in Article 122 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 (also the "Code"); by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (also the "Regulation" or "GDPR"), with regard specifically to the notion of consent in Articles 4, point 11), and 7 and Recital 32, as most recently interpreted by the WP29 Guidelines adopted on 10 April 2018, ratified by the European Data Protection Board on 25 May 2018 and replaced most recently by Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679 adopted on 4 May 2020.

• The "Guidelines for cookies and other tracking tools - 10 June 2021" (Published in the Official Gazette no. 163 of 9 July 2021).​​​
  

Cookies are text strings that websites (so-called "publishers" or "first parties") visited by the user, or different websites or web servers (so-called "third parties"), place and store on a terminal device available to the user.

These text strings are stored and then transmitted back to the website that issued them on each subsequent visit. This allows websites to identify the user both for the duration of the session and for longer periods.

This way the website can automatically adapt to the user, improving the user's browsing experience. Moreover, cookies provide the website operator with information on the users' browsing, including for the purpose of gathering statistical data on the use of the website and improving its navigation.

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According to laws on the protection of personal data, cookies can be divided into technical cookies, the use of which does not require the user's consent, and analytical cookies that are not comparable to technical and profiling cookies, for which the user's consent must be obtained.

Technical cookies

Technical cookies are used for the sole purpose of "transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the contracting party or user to provide such a service" (see Article 122, paragraph 1, of the Code).

This type of cookie is further subdivided into:

• Browsing/session cookies These cookies are essential to navigate within the website using all its functions, such as session maintenance and access to restricted areas. They are strictly necessary, as without them it would not be possible to provide the services requested. These cookies do not collect information to be used for commercial purposes.
   
• Analytics cookies. These collect and analyse information on the use of the website by visitors (pages visited, number of visitors, time spent on the website, etc.) to optimise site management. They are comparable to technical cookies only if:
  1. They are only used to produce aggregate statistics and with respect to a single website or mobile application.
      
  2. At least the fourth component of the IP address is masked.
      
  3. Third parties refrain from combining such analytics cookies with other processing (customer files or statistics of visits to other websites, for instance) or passing them on to third parties.
      
• Functional cookies. These allow the user to navigate according to a set of selected criteria (e.g. language) in order to provide the user with a better browsing experience. The information collected by this type of cookie is anonymous.

The website functions optimally if technical cookies are enabled.

Profiling cookies

Profiling cookies are used to link specific actions or behavioural patterns recurring in the use of the functions offered to specific, identified or identifiable individuals in order to group the various profiles within homogeneous clusters of different sizes so that increasingly targeted advertising messages can be sent, i.e. consistent with the preferences expressed by the user when browsing the web.

Third-party cookies

When browsing the website, cookies may be installed by other sites operated by other parties (“third parties”). In this case the website’s Data Controller only acts as a technical intermediary between the user and these third parties.
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At the bottom of each page of the website there is a link to the area dedicated to the management of preferences (this page), including with respect to consent provided on previous occasions. In this area there are commands and directions to consent to the use of all cookies, accept only those cookies that are strictly necessary, or change your previous choices.​

The settings of your browser allow both the possibility of avoiding the installation of cookies on the device being used and of erasing them.

This website functions optimally if cookies are enabled. If you deactivate cookies completely, you may disable certain functions of the website. Even with all cookies disabled, your browser will still store a small amount of information necessary for the basic functionality of the website.

For information on how to delete previously saved cookies or change your cookie settings select the browser you are using:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Safari
• Mozilla Firefox
• Adobe (Flash Cookies)

For more information and to deactivate third-party cookies:

• http://www.aboutads.info/choices
• http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
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