2) What are cookies and what are they for?

Cookies are small text files that the sites visited by the user send directly to his terminal (usually the browser), where they are stored before being re-transmitted to the same sites on the next visit by the same user (AKA first-party cookies). During navigation on a site, the user can also receive cookies from different sites or web servers on his terminal (so-called third-party cookies); this happens because on the visited website there may be elements such as, for example, images, maps, sounds, specific links to web pages of other domains that reside on servers other than the one on which the requested page is located. In other words, they are those cookies that are set by a website other than the one you are currently visiting.

Cookies may have a limited duration to a single browsing session on the browser (so-called session cookies), and in this case they are automatically deactivated when the browser is closed by the user; or they may have a predetermined deadline and, in this case, they will remain stored and active on your hard disk until this expiration date, continuing to collect information during different browsing sessions on the browser (so-called persistent cookies).

Cookies are used for different functions. Some are necessary to allow you to browse the site and take advantage of its features (so-called technical cookies). Others are used to obtain statistical information, whether aggregated or not, on the number of users accessing the Website and on how the Website is used (so-called tracking or analytics cookies). Others, finally, are used to track your consumer profile and make you display advertisements on the site that may be interesting for you, as they are consistent with your tastes and your consumption habits (so-called profiling cookies).

To learn more in detail these different categories of cookies continue reading this statement. Find out how they work and what they are for, and freely choose whether to consent to their use or prevent it.

 

3) Technical cookies

Technical cookies are used on the Site for the sole purpose of making it possible to browse the site and allow you to use its features. These are always first-party cookies, as they are conveyed directly by us on the Website.

Some technical cookies are essential to offer you an optimal browsing experience or to allow you to authenticate on the site, for example to make a purchase on the Site or enter your private area (so-called navigation cookie). Browsing cookies are normally session cookies and therefore, once the browser is closed, they are automatically deactivated.

Other technical cookies are useful to allow you to store some of your preferences (for example, the language or country of origin) without having to reset them during subsequent visits (so-called function cookies). For this reason, functionality cookies are often persistent cookies, as they remain stored on your computer even after the browser is closed, until the expiration date provided for them or until you have decided to delete them.

As required by current legislation on privacy, for the installation of these cookies is not required your prior consent. Of course you are free to block the installation of technical cookies, by changing the settings of your browser (read paragraph 6 to know how to do). Considers, however, that by blocking the installation of technical cookies, or subsequently eliminating them, the ability to access the Site, to use all or part of it, to enable or disable certain functions or receive certain services could be in whole or in part compromised.

 

4) Monitoring cookies or "analytics"

Cookies analytics are used on the Site to collect statistical information, in aggregate or not, on the number of users who access the site and how they visit the site.

Cookies analytics of this site are third-party cookies, as they are not directly conveyed by us but by third parties. Therefore, they are not installed directly by the Company but by third parties.

The following third-party analytics cookies are installed on the Sol site or with your prior consent, because they are not anonymized, since third parties can access analytic disaggregated data at the IP address level (in other words, using these cookies, third parties could theoretically trace your identity through the IP address).

For this reason, when you access the site, a special banner is displayed, which informs you that third-party analytics cookies are used on the Site and that closing the banner, scrolling the homepage or clicking any item on the home page. outside the banner, you are consenting to the use of cookies. Should you express your consent to the installation of cookies in this way, we will keep track of your consent through a special technical cookie. In this way, we will avoid having you display the banner on cookies during your subsequent visits to the site. Please consider that, if you had to delete this technical cookie from your browser in the manner described in paragraph 6 below), the trace of your consent would be lost and, therefore, during your next visit to the site the banner on cookies it will be displayed again.

Naturally, you are free to block the installation of analytics cookies at any time, without the possibility of visiting the Site and using its contents in any way compromised. To know how to do, read carefully the information on third-party cookies by following the links below.
 

 

 

5) Profiling cookies

Profiling cookies are used to create your own user profile, based on the preferences and tastes expressed by you when browsing the Internet, and to display advertising messages consistent with your profile. In this way the advertising messages that you will see on our website will be more interesting for you.

As required by current legislation on privacy, for the installation of these cookies your prior consent is required. For this reason, when you access the site a special banner is displayed, which informs you that (i) profiling cookies are used on the Site and that (ii) closing the banner, scrolling the home page or clicking any element of the 'home page outside the banner, you are consenting to the use of cookies. Should you express your consent to the installation of cookies in this way, we will track your consent through a special technical cookie. In this way, we will avoid having you display the banner on cookies during your subsequent visits to the site. Please consider that, if you had to delete this technical cookie from your browser in the manner described in paragraph 6 below, the trace of your consent would be lost and, therefore, during your next visit to the site the banner on cookies will be displayed again.

Naturally you are free to block the installation of profiling cookies at any time, without the possibility of visiting the site and enjoying its contents in any way compromised. If you decide to deactivate behavioral advertising, it does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising on the site. However, the banners you see on the site may not reflect your interests or preferences on the browser you are currently using.

Profiling cookies are installed by third parties, acting as independent data controllers (third-party cookies).

 

6) How to manage cookies and oppose their use

There are several options to manage, disable and delete cookies.

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A) Change site settings from this page

Use the features made available in the table at the top of this page to disable or enable cookies macro-categories (technical, analytics and profiling).

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B) Change your browser settings

Follow the instructions provided by the browser manufacturer you use to find out how to manage, disable or delete all cookies (technical, analytics and profiling):

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• Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/196955/it

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it

• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Attivare%20e%20disattivare%20i%20cookie

• Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=it_IT

• Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html

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Make your choices carefully. By blocking the receipt of all cookies indiscriminately, including technical cookies, without providing for a specific exception to the site, you may not be able to browse the Website or use all or part of its functionality. In addition, by deleting all cookies from the browser, technical cookies may also be removed and, therefore, you may remove the preferences you have set using the Site or not find the products or services included in your cart.

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C) Use interactive tools provided by third parties

To disable third-party cookies, consult the third party privacy information that install cookies analytics (see the previous paragraph 4) or profiling cookies (see the previous paragraph 5) to know the other tools at your disposal to manage, disable and delete cookies, and more generally to oppose their use. Remember that by disabling cookies from third parties, you oppose their use not only on the site but on all the websites on which these cookies are used and the ability to browse the site and use its features will not be affected in any way. When you disable third-party cookies you will still see the banner in the homepage on the site related to cookies; in this case, however, by closing the banner, scrolling the homepage or clicking any element of the homepage outside the banner, you will not receive any third-party cookies that you have correctly disabled.

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D) Use this website: www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/

Your Online Choices is an Internet site run by the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) non-profit association, whose Italian version can be reached at www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/, which provides information on behavioral advertising based on profiling cookies (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/a-proposito) and allows internet users to easily oppose (opt-out) the installation of the main profiling cookies installed by advertising operators and used on Internet sites (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/le-tue-scelte). Before using this tool, we recommend that you carefully read the general terms and conditions of the Your Online Choices website (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/condizioni-generali-di-servizio), the frequently asked questions (FAQ) (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/faqs) and the user's guide (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/help).

Use Your Online Choices consciously. Although, in fact, Your Online Choices brings together many of the most important advertising companies that use cookies, some of the third parties that install cookies through the Site may not have joined Your Online Choices. Therefore, the use of Your Online Choices does not guarantee that you will receive third-party cookies by browsing the Site. Also remember that by deleting all cookies from your browser, even technical cookies issued by Your Online Choices to remember your choices could be deleted, making third-party cookies active again.

 

7) How can I disable cookies?

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can also choose not to accept them. If you do not want your computer to receive and store cookies, you can change your browser's security settings (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, etc.). There are several ways to manage cookies and other tracking technologies. By changing your browser settings, you can accept or reject cookies or decide to receive a warning before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. You can delete all cookies installed in the cookie folder of your browser. Each browser has different procedures for managing settings.

Click on one of the links below to get specific instructions:

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Microsoft Internet Explorer

Click on the 'Tools' icon in the upper right corner and select 'Internet Options'. In the pop up window select 'Privacy'. Here you can adjust the settings of your cookies or via the link
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies

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Google Chrome

Click the wrench in the upper right corner and select 'Settings'. At this point select 'Show advanced settings' ("Under the hood") and change the settings of the 'Privacy'.
Here you can adjust the settings of your cookies or via the link

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

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Mozilla Firefox

From the drop-down menu in the upper left corner, select 'Options'. In the pop up window select 'Privacy'. Here you can adjust the settings of your cookies, or via the link

https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Attivare%20e%20disattivare%20i%20cookie

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Apple Safari

From the drop down setting menu in the upper right corner select 'Preferences'. Select 'Security'. Here you can adjust the settings of your cookies or via the link
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html

If you do not use any of the browsers listed above, select "cookies" in the relevant section of the guide to find out where your cookie folder is located.

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Google Analytics

To disable analytical cookies and to prevent Google Analytics from collecting browsing data, download the Browser Add-on to disable Google Analytics:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

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8) Other information

As highlighted in the introduction to this statement, the Company collects and processes some of your personal data through cookies that it carries directly on the site (first-party cookies). The Company acts as the holder of the processing of these data, in compliance with the provisions of the Applicable Law. We will treat your data only with electronic tools, in a totally automated way and without human intermediation. Therefore, our employees and collaborators will never access the content of your personal data obtained through cookies. Some of our employees and collaborators, appointed by us as data processors, may carry out maintenance work on the computer systems that host your data, without ever being able to access their actual content. Personal data may be stored on servers managed by third parties (eg IT systems providers) or may be managed by subjects specialized in online advertising, acting as external data controllers on the basis of a specific appointment in writing by part of the Company. We inform you that, in compliance with the conditions and guarantees established by the applicable legislation, your data may be transferred to countries not belonging to the European Economic Area, which may not offer a level of protection of privacy and personal data protection comparable to that guaranteed by Italian and European privacy laws. Your personal data will not be disclosed to third-party data controllers nor will they be disseminated.

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9) Your rights

Under the Applicable Law, you have the right to obtain at any time confirmation of the existence or not of personal data concerning you and to know its content and origin, verify its accuracy or request its integration or updating or rectification. You also have the right to request cancellation, transformation into anonymous form or blocking of data processed in violation of the law, and to oppose in any case, for legitimate reasons, to their treatment. Finally, you have the right to obtain a list of external processors appointed by the Company. To exercise your rights, or to have any other information or clarification regarding this information, contact the Company via a.r. (at Via Calvi di Coenzo 12, 42124 Reggio Emilia - Italy), via email (at privacyita@visaglobal.it ).

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