What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file, stored by the device when a website is visited by a user, which saves useful information if the site is visited again. Some cookies are necessary for the correct functioning of the website, while others are useful for improving navigation by storing information such as the language, thus preventing the visitor from having to re-enter the same information during a subsequent visit to the website.
Why are cookies used?
Cookies are used on this website to provide a better experience and service to visitors, namely:
- Improve and facilitate navigation
- Remember settings
- Increase the speed and security of the site
- Perform statistical analysis and provide appreciated content
Cookies are not used on this site for:
- Collecting personal or sensitive data
- Transmitting personal data to third parties
What are the different types of cookies?
Necessary Cookies: These can only be read by this website and are used to ensure the proper functioning of the site itself, particularly concerning settings and preferences.
Third-party Cookies: These are mainly used by Google for the following services: Analytics, Adsense, and YouTube.
Third-party cookies are set by other entities; they can be tracking cookies which are read during visits to other websites to improve user navigation.
Tracking cookies, in particular, are used to count how many people have visited our site, how long they spent browsing, and which page they liked most. This information helps us continually improve our site. These cookies also anonymously tell us how many people have visited the site and whether they have visited before. Such functions help improve visitor navigation and ensure site development meets their expectations.
Which cookies do we use?
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the functioning of the website.
Regulations do not require users’ consent for strictly necessary cookies, as they are indispensable for providing services on this website.
2. Performance Cookies
Performance cookies help improve how the website works. We use these cookies to analyze how visitors use our site and to monitor its performance:
- Storing preferences to understand which method of page connection is most efficient
- Enabling web analytics to provide anonymous statistics on website usage
- Assisting with error management while helping us improve the website by evaluating any errors that occur
3. Functionality Cookies
We use functionality cookies to provide services such as displaying an online video. Regulations do not require users’ consent for functionality cookies.
How long do cookies remain on the device?
There are two types of cookies that can be stored on the website: session and persistent cookies.
Session cookies are temporary and remain on the user’s device until they leave the website.
Persistent cookies remain stored on the user’s hard drive until they are deleted or reach their expiration date. These cookies can, for example, be used to remember user preferences while using the website.
Consent
By clicking the “accept” button on the dedicated banner that automatically appears when entering this site, users or visitors may accept (consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy).
How can I disable cookies?
You can modify your browser to disable cookies through a very simple procedure.
Firefox:
Open Firefox
Press the “Alt” button on your keyboard
In the toolbar at the top of the browser, select “Tools” and then “Options”
Select the “Privacy” tab
Go to “History settings:” and then to “Use custom settings”. Uncheck “Accept cookies from sites” and save your preferences.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer
Click the “Tools” button and then click “Internet Options”
Select the “Privacy” tab and move the slider to the desired privacy level (up to block all cookies, down to allow all)
Click OK
Google Chrome:
Open Google Chrome
Click on the “Tools” icon
Select “Settings” and then “Advanced settings”
Select “Content settings” under “Privacy”
In the “Cookies” tab, you can deselect cookies and save preferences
Safari:
Open Safari
Choose “Preferences” from the toolbar, then select the “Security” panel in the dialog
In the “Accept cookies” section, you can specify if and when Safari should save cookies from websites. For more information, click the Help button (marked with a question mark)
Cookies used by this website
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are set by third-party services appearing on our pages.
PHPSESSID Strictly necessary
Maintains user state across page requests
YouTube Functionality
Cookies used by the YouTube platform, generated on our site as a result of sharing videos
Other cookies may be generated, but always for the proper functioning of the website.
Google Maps Performance
Necessary for the Google Map third-party service. These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information each time they visit webpages containing Google Maps geographic maps.
Google Analytics Performance
Google Analytics cookies can be refused following Google's procedure. Using our site without refusing Google cookies implies consent to Google identifying your geographic position, IP, device used, and time spent on the site’s pages, but no profiling data of users and browsers will be tracked by Google itself.
To provide Analytics service, Google uses the cookies utma, utmb, utmc, utmz. These cookies are solely used to collect navigation information, necessary to create analysis reports useful for improving the service offered. This information is not used for commercial purposes.
It is possible that some jQuery libraries use Google Analytics cookies for their own usage statistics.
Cokiepolicy Strictly necessary - Performance - Functionality
This is a necessary cookie used to display this policy and consequently cannot ever be removed by this site’s software.]
