INFORMATION ON HOW COOKIES ARE USED
1. DATA CONTROLLER
Data controller is the company Epitech Group S.p.A. unipersonale (hereinafter Epitech), in the person of its legal representative pro tempore, Mrs. Raffaella della Valle, headquartered in 20144 Milan, via Egadi, 7 – Italy, VAT No. IT03630550287.
2. COOKIE DEFINITION
Cookies are “small text files”, formed by letters and numbers that websites, visited by Users (cd. Publisher, or “first parties”) or different websites or web servers (cd. “Third parties”). They are placed and stored inside the User’s terminal so that they can be transmitted to the same sites on the next visit.
Generally, cookies can perform various functions, including the monitoring of sessions, the storage of information on specific configurations regarding Users who access the servers, facilitation in the use of online content, etc.
For example, they can be used to keep track of items in an online shopping cart, or information used to fill out an electronic form.
The information collected through cookies can also be used to build a profile of the preferences expressed by the User during navigation, for example, for the purpose of customizing commercial promotion messages.
3. WHERE TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT OUR COOKIES
On our website it is possible for the User to have all the detailed information, and decide whether to provide consent where necessary, according to the cookie regulation, through the Information Banner that is presented to the User upon his first access to the website.
By closing this information, using the appropriate button, the User gives his consent to our use of cookies, in the manner described in this Cookie Policy.
The Banner is subsequently resubmitted to the User during his access to our website, if one of the following occurs:
- one or more treatment conditions should change significantly; therefore, the Banner must be proposed to provide updated information;
- in case is impossible, as website operators, to have any understanding whether a cookie has already been activated;
- if at least 6 months have passed since the previous presentation of the Banner.
The User can control how cookies are used by configuring his browser privacy settings. However, if the User completely disables cookies, the site or some of its functions may not operate correctly.
Most browsers allow you to accept or reject all cookies or accept only a few (for example from specific sites).
The cookie configuration method varies for each browser.
4. COOKIES TYPE
Generally, cookies can be of various types:
- “technical” cookies are those technically necessary to carry out a transmission of a communication on an electronic communication network, or to provide any features explicitly requested by the User. According to the current legislation on cookies, consent is not required for the installation and use of “technical cookies “;
- “profiling” cookies are those allowing you to lead to specific, identified, or identifiable, actions or patterns of recurring behaviour. For example, they allow you to modulate the provision of a service or to send targeted advertising messages. For the installation and use of “profiling” cookies, prior consent of the User is required;
- “analytical” cookies collect information on the use and performance of the site, anonymously;
Cookies may differ depending on the operator:
“First Party” cookies are those managed directly by the Publisher or the Owner of the website from which they are activated;
“Third Party” cookies are present on the Publisher’s website, but are managed by other parties, other than the Publisher.
5. PURPOSE AND CLASSIFICATION OF TECHNICAL COOKIES USED BY THIS SITE
This site uses technical cookies. Profiling cookies are not used.
Technical cookies may have purposes such as:
- authentication, validation, and storage of specific technical information;
- saving preferences and optimising website functions.
Among the technical cookies functionality cookies are included, which are needed to make a service requested by the User of the site itself, like buying a product online and put it in the virtual shopping cart.
We recall that the installation and use of technical cookies (including functionality) do not require the consent of the User, and are always active because, if disabled, it will become complex, if not impossible, for the User, navigate and interact with the contents of the pages of the website.
Analytical cookies can also be used to assess the effectiveness of a service provided through the website, or to design/update pages of the site itself, or to help measure its “traffic” that is the number of visitors also possibly broken down by geographical area, time slot of connection or other characteristics.
These types of cookies (both active and passive cookies) can be included among the technical ones, for which the consent of the User is not necessary if data minimization techniques are adopted, that significantly limit the power to identify an individual User.
In our site, the use of these cookies is limited only to the production of aggregate statistics, not allowing the tracking of navigation of the person using different applications or browsing different websites. Epitech Group SpA does not disclose these data to Third Parties.