Privacy Policy
Why are cookies used?
This website uses cookies to provide visitors with an improved browsing experience and services tailored to each individual’s interests.
Cookies play an important role in adapting the website’s features to the needs of users, such as:
- Personalizing certain settings;
- Providing site owners with information on how visitors use the site, allowing for optimization of the site’s content over time;
- Allowing multimedia applications or content from other websites to be included within this site to create a more useful and pleasant browsing experience;
- Improving the effectiveness of online advertising.
What is a “cookie”?
A cookie is a small text file stored on the visitor’s computer. The cookie is set at the request of a web server through a web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox). In general, cookies are “passive” files and do not contain software programs, viruses, or spyware.
A cookie is composed of two parts: the name and the value of the cookie. The lifetime of a cookie is limited. Only the servers that set the cookie can access it again when the user returns to the website associated with that server.
How are cookies used by this site?
A visit to this site may place cookies for purposes such as:
- site usage;
- analysis of visitor navigation within the site;
- geotargeting (monitoring the geographical origin of users);
- registration (saving account login data);
- advertising (limiting the number of banner displays).
How can I stop cookies?
Browsers offer the possibility to change cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “Preferences” or “Options” menu.
Refusing or disabling cookies may make certain sections of the site unusable.
Security and privacy issues
Cookies are not viruses, so they cannot duplicate or replicate on other networks to run or replicate again.
Cookies store information about users’ preferences and browsing history and can potentially be used as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products mark cookies for deletion during antivirus/antispyware scan procedures.
In general, browsers have built-in privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity periods, and automatic deletion after a user has visited a certain site.
Through cookies, information is constantly transmitted in both directions between the browser and the website. If an unauthorized person intercepts the transmission path, the information contained in the cookie can be intercepted.
This can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (e.g. unsecured WiFi network).