This Cookie Policy explains the technologies used to collect information through browsing the Website and via email communications, commonly known as “cookies.”

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that websites send to users’ devices, where they are stored for future retransmission to the same sites upon subsequent visits. Cookies serve various purposes, have different characteristics, and can be used either by the site owner or by third parties. Below, you will find information on the cookies installed through this Website and guidance on how to manage your cookie preferences.

Specifically, we can distinguish two categories of cookies:

• Technical cookies that do not require consent
• Cookies that require consent (profiling cookies managed by third parties).

1) Technical cookies that do not require consent

Cookies related to activities strictly necessary for the operation of the Website and the provision of the service (e.g., essential cookies, performance cookies). We use these cookies, which include both session and persistent cookies.

Cookies for saving preferences and optimization (e.g., functional cookies). We use these cookies, which are persistent cookies.

Statistical cookies used directly by the Website manager to collect aggregate information (e.g., statistical cookies). These cookies include both session and persistent cookies.

All technical cookies do not require consent, so they are automatically installed when you access the Website.

How are technical cookies used by our Website?

Some cookies are stored only for the duration of your visit to the Website. These are known as session cookies. Others, known as persistent cookies, may be stored on your computer after your visit and can be accessed by our Website upon subsequent visits.

Some cookies stored when you visit our Website may also be stored and accessed by other companies. For example, when a “Like” button or similar from a social network is displayed on our Website, that social network may store and access its own cookies to ensure the button functions and for other purposes (for more information, see the social network’s privacy and cookie policy).

Essential Cookie Policy:

We may use essential cookies to provide the services you request on our Website. Without these cookies, we may be unable to deliver the requested services.

For instance, we may use these cookies to:

Allow you to access secure areas of our Website without re-authentication.
Remember actions you previously took (such as filling out an online form) when returning to a page during the same session.

Performance Cookies:

We may use performance cookies to collect information on how our Website, advertising, and email communications are used, and to alert us when an error occurs. These cookies may collect technical details, such as the last visited Website, number of pages visited, whether email communications were opened, which parts of our Website or email communications were clicked on, and the time between clicks. While this information may be associated with details like IP addresses, domain, or browser information, it is analyzed only in aggregate with information from other users to avoid direct identification.

For example, we may use these cookies to:

Analyze and improve the performance of our Website, advertising, and email communications.
Manage the performance and design of our Website.
Measure responses to our advertisements to improve their effectiveness.
Track errors on our Website to enhance service and complaint management.

Functional Cookies:

We may use functional cookies that are not essential but enable numerous useful features on our Website. For example, we may use these cookies to:

Remember your previous site preferences, like country/language, interests, and Website presentation (e.g., layout, font size, etc.) to avoid re-entry.
Remember answers to prompts on our Website (e.g., if you opted out of a customer satisfaction survey, you won’t be asked again).
Detect if a service has already been offered to you (e.g., service offering).
2) Cookies requiring consent

Any cookies other than the technical ones mentioned above are installed or activated only after obtaining user consent during the first Website visit. Consent can be given generally by interacting with the short information banner on the Website’s landing page, as indicated in the banner (e.g., closing the banner, clicking the OK button, scrolling the page, or clicking any element on it); or it can be provided selectively as specified below. This consent will be remembered for future visits. However, users always have the option to partially or fully withdraw previously given consent.

Third-Party Managed Cookies

This Website also installs cookies managed by third parties. Below you will find some information, and a link to each third party’s policy and consent form. You can express your consent by closing this page or navigating to another page on the Website.

Advertising and Specific Categories of Profiling Cookies

These are used to deliver advertising based on browsing interests and to target ads to users who have previously visited the Website (retargeting cookies); for sharing content on social networks (social network cookies); and for statistical management, even in disaggregated form (statistical cookies).

Below, you will find the names of the third parties that manage these cookies, and a link to the page where you can find information on data processing and provide your consent.

Definitions

Host | Category | Link to Cookie Policy — | — | — YouTube | Tracking Analytics & Tracking | [Privacy Policy](http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/) Google Analytics | Analytics & Tracking | [Cookie Usage](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage/) YouTube | Tracking Rich Media | [Privacy Policy](http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/) Google | Social Media | [Privacy Policy](http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/) Facebook, Inc. – connect | Social Media | [Explanation](https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation) Facebook Social Plugin | Social Media | [Explanation](https://www.ghostery.com/en/apps/facebook_social_plugins)
To disable analytical cookies and prevent Google Analytics from collecting browsing data, you can download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: Google Analytics Opt-out.