Cookie Policy
The purpose of this document is to provide you, in a simple and intuitive manner, with all useful and necessary information so that you can be informed in an informed way about the use and processing of your Personal Data carried out by Cookies as subsequently defined and used by this Website. The extensive information on the use of Cookies (so-called Cookie Policy), therefore, was drafted based on the principle of transparency and all the elements required by Article 13 of the Regulation and is divided into individual sections (hereinafter “Sections” and individually “Section”) each of which deals with a specific topic in order to make reading faster, easier and easier to understand.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text strings made up of portions of code sent by a web server (eg a site) to an Internet browser and installed inside the same. In particular, these are small text files that the websites visited by users send to their terminals, where they are stored before being re-transmitted to the same sites on subsequent visits. Almost all browsers are set up to allow automatic storage of cookies on the user’s terminal. Cookies are used for different and various purposes, have different peculiarities and can be used both by the Data Controller, by the Data Processing Counsels, as identified and defined below, as well as by third parties who use or can use the Website, even in combination of the following, the following categories of cookies, divided according to the classification proposed in Opinion 04/2012 concerning the exemption from consent for the use of cookies issued by the Working Group pursuant to art. 29 within the EU (available here): Session or permanent cookies Cookies can expire at the end of a browser session (the period between the opening of a browser window by the User and its closure) or they can be stored for a longer period of time. Session cookies are those that allow websites to link a user’s actions during a browser session. Session cookies expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies are stored on a user’s device between browser sessions, for varying periods of time, and allow users to memorize preferences or actions with respect to a website.
Technical or profiling cookies
Technical cookies are those used by the owner of a site for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or by the User to provide this service. For the installation of these Cookies the prior consent of the Users is not required where used directly by the site manager. The profiling cookies are aimed at creating profiles relating to the user and are used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences shown by the user in the context of surfing the net. Due to the particular invasiveness that these Cookies can have in the private sphere of the Users, the European and Italian legislation provides that the User must be adequately informed on the use of the same, through a brief information (banner) and an extended one present on the site, and which must express its express consent in this regard the first time you visit the site. This consent can be expressed in a general manner, interacting with the brief information banner present on the site landing page, with the methods indicated in this banner, or it can be provided or denied selectively, according to the methods indicated below. This consensus is tracked on subsequent visits. However, the User always has the possibility to revoke the consent already expressed, in whole or in part. First-party or third-party cookies A cookie is “first-party” (so-called first party cookies) or “third-party cookies” (c.d. third party cookies) based on the website or domain from which it comes. First-party cookies are, in essence, cookies set and / or managed by the site owner. For these Cookies, the obligation of the information, the acquisition of consent and / or allowing the possible blocking of Cookies lies with the owner of the site. Third-party cookies are cookies set by a domain other than the one visited by the user. For these Cookies, the obligation of the information and the indication of the modalities for the possible consent and / or blocking of Cookies lies with the third party, while the owner of the site is only obliged to insert in the site the link to the site of the third party where these elements are available.
How can I check the installation of cookies?
In addition to what is indicated in this Cookie Policy, you can manage your preferences for cookies directly in your browser and prevent – for example – that third parties can install them. Through the browser preferences it is also possible to delete the Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookie in which the consent to the installation of Cookies by this Website may be saved. It should be noted that by disabling all cookies, the functioning of this website may be compromised. You can find information on how to manage cookies in your browser at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Windows Explorer. In the case of services provided by third parties, you can also exercise your right to object to tracking by informing yourself through the privacy policy of the third party, via the opt out link if explicitly provided in this Cookie Policy or by browsing directly within the privacy policy of the third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we inform you that you can also use the tools provided by Your Online Choices. Through this service it is possible to manage the tracking preferences of most advertising tools. We advise you to use this tool in addition to the additional ones indicated in this Cookie Policy. Since the installation of Cookies and other tracking systems operated by third parties through the services used on this Website cannot be technically controlled by the Data Controller, any specific reference to Cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties should be considered indicative. To obtain complete information, consult the privacy policy of the third parties as indicated in this Cookie Policy. Given the objective complexity linked to the identification of technologies based on Cookies and their very close integration with the functioning of the web, we invite you to contact us using the contact channels present in Section I should you wish to receive any further information relating to the use of the Cookies themselves and any use of the same – for example by third parties – carried out through this Website.
Rights of the interested party
Pursuant to the European Regulation 679/2016 (GDPR) and the national legislation, the interested party may, according to the procedures and within the limits established by current legislation, exercise the following rights: 1) request confirmation of the existence of personal data concerning him (right of access); 2) know its origin; 3) receive intelligible communication; 4) have information about the logic, methods and purposes of the processing; 5) request the updating, rectification, integration, cancellation, transformation into anonymous form, blocking of data processed in violation of the law, including those no longer necessary for the pursuit of the purposes for which they were collected; in cases of treatment based on consent, to receive their data provided to the holder, in a structured and readable form by a data processor and in a format commonly used by an electronic device; the right to file a complaint with the Control Authority. To enforce his rights, the interested party can write to: privacy@hrit.it
Changes
HRIT reserves the right to modify or update the content, in part or completely, also due to changes in the applicable legislation. If the changes to this Cookie Policy concern substantial changes in the treatments or may have a significant impact on the interested parties, HRIT will take care to notify the interested parties accordingly.