Data protection

The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal information. As far as on our sides personal data (eg name, address or email addresses) are collected, this is as far as possible on a voluntary basis. These data are not without your express consent to third parties.
We point out that data transmission over the Internet (eg when communicating via email) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against unauthorized access by third parties is impossible.
The use of published under the imprint obligation by third parties for sending unsolicited advertisements and information materials is hereby expressly prohibited. The operators of these pages expressly legal steps in case of unsolicited promotional information, such as spam e-mails.

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Cookies

In order to ensure you a user-friendly experience, to help us improve our site and to analyse web traffic, like most websites, this one uses cookies too! Cookies are useful for the website and for users as well. The cookies we use are absolutely harmless for your computer, tablet or smartphone and do not contain any virus!
If you choose to disable cookies, you may lose some features and functionality and some contents of our website may not be displayed or may not function correctly.

Cookie Consent:
By using this site you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy

Here you find detailed information about cookies, about why and what types of cookies we use and about how you can control, disable or delete cookies.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a simple text file that may be stored on your device (computer, smartphone or tablet) by a website’s server when you visit a site.

Some cookies are strictly necessary for the correct function of some pages and features. Other cookies help make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier, i.e. by letting you navigate between pages efficiently, by storing your preferences (language, screen resolution, etc.), by allowing us to identify your device and find out details about your last visit in order to generally improving your present (and future) experience on our site.

According to their function, cookies are divided in following categories:

Technical and analytics cookies:
According to Italian privacy legislation following types of cookies are considered “technical cookies” and can be used without the explicit consent of the user:

Navigation cookies:
Navigation cookies are necessary to make the website work properly and to make users’ experience easier and faster. They also make it possible to access secure areas of the website and to register i.e. to newsletters.

Function cookies:
These cookies make it possible for specific features of the site to function, in order to make the website and your online experience more user-friendly.

Analytics cookies:
These cookies monitor website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our websites by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website, etc. These cookies don’t identify you as an individual. All data is collected and aggregated anonymously.

Third Party Cookies
This type of cookies can be set on your device by external suppliers on our behalf to allow them to deliver the services they are providing. You may receive cookies from third party websites when you use them on our site or if you are already logged in to them. Third parties cookies come for example from “social media plugins” such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter or from services of Google Analytics, Google Maps, YouTube, etc. and are generated and run by the external suppliers. We cannot control and have no authority on third party cookies and on their privacy settings. For this reason we herewith expressly declare that third party features implemented on our site are subject to the cookie and privacy policy of their owner.

To get more information about these cookies, see the links below.

YouTube, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Plus
www.google.com/intl/en-GB/policies/technologies/cookies/

Facebook
www.facebook.com/help/cookies/

Behavioural or profiling cookies / Use of Adwords Remarketing Cookies:
Online behavioural advertising (also known as interest-based advertising) is a way of serving advertisements on the websites you visit and making them more relevant to you and your interests. This happens thanks to profiling cookies. The information contained in a cookie is used to track a user’s activity when visiting pages online.

The information collected and used for this type of advertising is not personal, in that it does not identify you – the user – in the real world. No personal information, such as your name, address or email address, is used. Data about your browsing activity is collected and analysed anonymously.

Profiling cookies remain stored on users’ device for a longer time.

Users can opt out behavioural advertising permanently by disabling interest-based advertising by Google here:
www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

Detailed information and links about profiling and remarketing cookies are available on the official website or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: www.youronlinechoices.eu

Further information about the different types of cookies, about how they function and about their features are to be found at www.AllAboutCookies.org

2. WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
On our website we use:

Technical cookies
that are necessary to show the pages correctly, to make the features of the website function properly and to access secure areas. Use this tool to check which cookies are set and used by our sites:
www.cookie-checker.com

According to the current Italian legislation, not all types of cookies require a specific and express consent to be used. In the case of technical cookies express consent is not required, as the legislation recognises that technical cookies are indispensable for a website to work in a correct way.

Analytics cookies
According to the Italian Privacy Agency, analytics cookies are to be considered as technical cookies used to collect anonymous data about website usage statistics. Analytics cookies help us improve our website and offers; thanks to them we can monitor which types of content, what links and features users enjoy most, for instance.

For our statistics we use the “Google Analytics” tool by Google Inc.
Google Analytics may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners tags to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page. The Google Analytics use cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website. These cookies provide only anonymous / aggregated information. Your IP address will not be joint with other information stored by Google.

The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘__ga’ cookie.

Learn more about analytics cookies and privacy:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
www.cookie-checker.com
www.google.com/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/

Third party cookies and services
Our website uses following third party services:
Goolge Analytics, Google Maps, Facebook, Google+

Facebook Plugin
Plugins of the social media Facebook Inc. are integrated on our website. You easily recognize them thanks to the Facebook logo or the “like button”.

If you click the “Like” button when you are logged in to Facebook, you can share contents of our website in your Facebook profile. In this way Facebook can associate your visit to our website with your user account. We would like to point out that we as suppliers do not know the content of the delivered data nor what use Facebook makes of the data. Further details about Facebook Data Policy are available at www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not wish that Facebook associates your visit of our website to your account, please log out of your Facebook account.

Google+ Plugin
On our websites we use functions of Google+ powered by Google Inc. You easily recognize them thanks to the Google+ logo or the Google +1 button. Clicking on them you can post information worldwide. By interacting with them, you and other users get personalised information by Google and other suppliers. In order to use the +1 button, you must have an active google profile.
In order to store your +1 and make it visible to the public, Google receives information about your Google profile, the URL you +1, your IP address, and other browser-related information. If you undo your +1, this information will be deleted.

Profiling cookies for interest-based advertising:
Currently our website DOES NOT use profiling cookies.

Click-Through-Link-Technology in our Newsletter Manager
In some of our newsletters we use the so-called “click-through URL” that allows you to open specific pages of our website. Each click on one link in the newsletter is tracked and collected by the newsletter software. This helps us to know what contents of the newsletter were interesting for you and what were not, so that in future we can improve our email communication with you. If you do not want to track this information, simply avoid to click on the text and graphic links in our newsletter.

3. HOW CAN I CONTROL OR DISABLE COOKIES?
In your browser you can disable cookies or delete the ones that have already been saved. By disabling cookies, some contents or features of our site may not function properly or may not be shown correctly.

Learn how to block, disable or delete cookies in the browser you use:

Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer:
windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies

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

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

Opera mobile:
www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/

Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on:
If you want to prevent your data from being stored and used by Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at this link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Facebook Plugin:
If you do not wish that Facebook associates your visit of our website to your account, please log out of your Facebook account.

Third party cookies:
You can disable or delete each of them separately. On the site of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance you find detailed instructions:
www.youronlinechoices.eu

Profiling cookies for interest-based advertising:
You can permanently opt-out profiling cookies for remarketing by disabling interest-based advertising here:
www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/