Cookie Policy
This site uses “cookies”. Cookies are small pieces of data that are temporarily stored in the browser memory. The data collected through cookies allows us to compare new and past visitors, understand how users navigate the website, and in general allow a better experience of using the site.
If you wish to disable the use of cookies, you must customize your computer settings by setting the deletion of all cookies or activating a warning message when cookies are stored. To proceed without modifying the application of cookies, simply continue browsing. Visit “AboutCookies.org” for more information on cookies and how they affect your browsing experience.
The types of cookies we use:
- Essential cookies: These cookies are essential for navigating the entire site and using all of its features, such as accessing the various protected areas of the site. Without these cookies, some necessary services, such as filling out a form for a competition, cannot be used;
- Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, or if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected through cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve how a website works. By using our site, you agree that these cookies can be stored on your device;
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They can also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. By using our site, you agree that these cookies can be installed on your device;
- Cookies used by this site: This site uses both first-party and third-party cookies.
The table below and the following chapters detail the third-party analytical cookies currently present on the website.
| COOKIE NAME | DEFAULT EXPIRY | TYPE | COOKIE DESCRIPTION |
| _ga | The default expiration is set after 2 years | Third Party Analytics | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users by assigning each of them a randomly generated number as an identifier. It is used to calculate the number of visitors to the page, sessions and data in order to produce anonymized statistical analysis reports. |
| _gid | The default expiration is set after 24 hours | Third Party Analytics | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users by assigning each of them a randomly generated number as an identifier. It is used to calculate the number of visitors to the page, sessions and data in order to produce anonymized statistical analysis reports. |
| _gat | Default expiration is every 10 minutes | Third party analytics | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics, it is used to speed up access requests. |
| _unam | The default expiration is after 9 months | Third-party analytics | The “__unam” cookie is part of the ShareThis service and monitors “click activity”, for example: pages visited, navigation from page to page, time spent on a page, etc. The ShareThis service identifies you personally if you are separately registered with ShareThis with a ShareThis account and have given your consent. |
- Google Analytics Cookies: This website may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereinafter “Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are saved on your computer to allow an analysis of how you use the website. The information on your use of the website (including your IP address) obtained through cookies will be sent to and stored on a Google server in the United States. By using this website, you consent to the processing of your data by Google. It is possible to disable Google Analytics cookies by using the opt-out add-on provided by Google for the main browsers (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/). To consult the privacy policy of the Google company, relating to the Google Analytics service, please visit the website http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. To learn about Google’s privacy policy, please visit the website http://www.google.com/intl/it/policies/privacy/;
- Google Adwords & Google Remarketing Cookies: This website may use Google Adwords and Google Remarketing. Both services are operated by Google Inc.. The AdWords conversion tracking feature also uses cookies. To help us track sales and other conversions, a cookie is added to a user’s computer when that user clicks on an ad. This cookie lasts for 30 days and does not collect or track information that can personally identify a user. Users can disable Google conversion tracking cookies in their Internet browser settings.
Users can disable the use of cookies by Google by visiting the page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can tell visitors to disable the use of cookies by a third-party provider by visiting the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp ; - Facebook CookiesOur website may use so-called plugins from the social network Facebook.com (hereinafter “Facebook”), operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. After authentication, you will find a list of the main Facebook plugins at the following Internet address: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins. When you access a page on our website that contains one of these plugins, your browser loads and plays the content of the plugin from the Facebook server. This tells the Facebook server which page of our website you are visiting. If you have a Facebook profile and are logged in to Facebook while visiting our website, Facebook recognizes, via the information sent by the plugin, which page you are visiting and assigns the visit to your Facebook account. When you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or posting a comment, the information is sent to your Facebook account, where it is stored. Information about your visit to our website is transmitted to Facebook regardless of whether you activate a plugin or not. To prevent the transmission and storage of data about you and your Internet browsing via Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. To block the future collection and transmission of your data via Facebook plugins, you can download the “Facebook Blocker” add-on for your browser at the following link. We recommend that you do not delete the add-on as long as you want to block Facebook plugins: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker. At the following Internet address you will find Facebook’s privacy policy, which contains further information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard, as well as setting options for protecting your privacy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php;
- Google Plus Cookies: Our website may use the Google+ social network (Google Plus) from Google. When you access a page on our website that contains the “+1” button, your browser loads and displays the content of the associated Google+ page. This enables the Google server to recognize which page of our website you are visiting. Your browsing history is stored for a maximum of two weeks.
At the following Internet address you will find Google’s privacy policy for the “+1” button, which contains more information on the collection, transmission and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard and your profile setting options: https://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.