What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit our Website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences), so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the Website or browse from one page to another. They are also used to optimize your browsing experience and simplify transactions online. Cookies allow us to recognize you every time you visit the Website and to recall personalized settings. This facilitates and improves your browsing experience. Finally, we collect some data on how the Website is accessed to establish anonymised statistics and improve its overall performance in terms of speed and functionality/ease of use. There are mainly two types of cookies: ‘essential’ cookies and ‘non-essential’ cookies.- Essential cookies: are cookies that are essential for our Website to function. They are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website to allow you to browse it and to use its main features.
- Non-essential cookies: are cookies that allow you to personalise your user experience on our Website but are not 100% essential for it to function. They are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.
- Persistent or permanent cookies: remain after a session is closed. They are kept on the Visitor’s hard drive until they expire or until the Visitor deletes the cookies. Persistent cookies are used to collect identification data relating to the Visitor, such as behaviour while surfing the internet or preferences for a specific website.
- Session cookies: only last for the time taken to visit a website (session). They expire when you close your browser.
- First-party cookies: these belong to the site that you choose to visit;
- Third-party cookies: these are cookies connected with the activity of partner third parties. They are imported from a site the content of which is accessible indirectly, for example via an image or a banner.