What are cookies
A “cookie” is a text file saved on the user’s computer when he or she accesses a website for the purpose of providing information every time the user returns to the same site. It is a sort of reminder of the visited internet page. With the cookie, the web server sends information to the user’s browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) stored on the latter’s computer, which will be re-read and updated each time the user returns to the site. In this way the website can automatically adapt to the user. During navigation, the user may also receive cookies from different sites (“third party” cookies) on his or her terminal, set directly by the operators of said websites and used for the purposes and according to the procedures defined by them.
Depending on their duration, cookies are divided into session cookies (ie the temporary cookies which are automatically deleted from the terminal at the end of the browsing session, when the browser is closed) and persistent cookies (ie those that remain stored on the terminal until their expiration or cancellation by the user).
Cookies can be divided into technical cookies and profiling cookies, depending on their function and purpose of use.
Technical cookies
Some cookies are used to perform computer authentication, monitor sessions and store specific information about users accessing a web page. These so-called technical cookies are often useful to allow you to browse a website and use all of its features. The use of technical cookies does not require the user’s consent.
Analytics cookies also belong to this category. These are cookies that collect information about the use that a user makes of a website and that allows the website to improve its operation. For example, analytics cookies show which pages are most frequently visited, allow a website’s recurrent patterns of use to be identified and can help to understand every difficulty that the user encounters in use.
Profiling cookies
Other cookies can instead be used to monitor and profile users while browsing, to study their movements and habits of web browsing or consumption (what they buy, what they read, etc.), including for the purposes of sending advertising of targeted and personalised services. In this case we speak about profiling cookies. The use of these cookies requires the prior acquisition of the free informed consent of the user pursuant to art. 7 of the 2016/679 EU Regulation.
Third-party cookies
A web page may also contain cookies from other sites, present in various elements hosted on the page itself, such as banner ads, images, videos, maps or specific links to web pages of other domains that reside on servers other than those on which the requested page is located. In other words, these cookies are set directly by managers of websites or servers other than this website. We speak, in these cases, of so-called third-party cookies, which are usually used for profiling purposes. The use of these cookies requires the prior acquisition of the free informed consent of the user.
Types of cookies used on our website
The main functions of the cookies installed by SCOA.IT are technical. They are used to constantly improve the service, for authentication, for statistical purposes, such as the count of visits to the site. The use of cookies is therefore strictly aimed at facilitating the functions of the server during the navigation of the Service.
The site also allows the sending of the third-party cookies described below. These cookies are not our own tools, for more information, therefore, you can access the third parties’ information and forms for the acquisition of consent, by clicking on the links below.
To improve the website and understand which parts or elements are most appreciated by users, the third-party cookies of Google Analytics are used as an anonymous and aggregate analysis tool. These cookies are not our own tools, for more information, therefore, you can consult the information provided by Google.
The pages of the website incorporate within them some sharing widgets and buttons for Facebook and Google Plus, to allow the user to share the contents of the website on their social channels, and to interact with our channels. These cookies are not our own tools, but are created by Facebook and Google respectively when you use the respective widget or share button. To find out more, visit the following information pages: Facebook and Google.
Some web pages incorporate YouTube video content into them. By visiting a page containing a video, or clicking to view the video, cookies from YouTube may be recalled. These cookies are not our own tools. To learn more, visit the Google information page.
The website could use Facebook ADS programs managed by Facebook Inc., Google Adwords and Google Remarketing technology, managed by Google Inc. Also the conversion tracking function of Facebook ADS and AdWords uses cookies to help us keep track of sales and other conversions.
Managing cookies
Users can manage their own cookie preferences through the features present in the common browsers that allow you to delete / remove (all or some) cookies or to change the settings of the browser in order to block the sending of cookies or to limit the sending of cookies to specific sites (compared to others).
It is therefore possible to refuse the use of cookies, following the disabling procedure provided by your browser. Below are the links to the methods offered by the main browsers: Microsoft Windows Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Google Analytics by downloading a specific browser plug-in.
To get information about the cookies stored on your terminal and disable them individually, please refer to the link: http: //www.youronlinechoices.com/it/le-tue-scelte
Social Network Plugins
The SCOA.IT website also incorporates plugins and / or commands for social networks, in order to allow easy sharing of content on your favourite social networks. These plugins are programmed so as not to set any cookies when accessing the page, to safeguard the privacy of users. Cookies may be set, if so provided by social networks, only when the user makes effective and voluntary use of the plugin. Please note that if the user browses while being logged into the social network then he or she has already consented to the use of cookies conveyed through this site at the time of registration to the social network.
The collection and use of the information obtained by means of plugins are governed by the respective privacy policies of the social networks, to which reference is made.
- Facebook – (link informativa cookie)
- Twitter – (link informativa cookie)
- LinkedIn – (link informativa cookie)
- Google+ – (link informativa cookie).
This privacy policy may undergo changes over time – including those relating to the possible entry into force of new sector regulations, to the updating or provision of new services or to technological innovations – and the user / visitor is therefore invited to consult the SCOA.IT page regularly.