privacy policies

What is Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to "remember" your actions or preferences over time.

Most browsers are compatible with cookies, but users can configure their browsers to reject them and delete them whenever they wish.

Description - Websites mainly use cookies to:

Identify users - remember the personalized preferences of users - help users complete tasks without having to re-enter information when browsing from one page to another or when visiting the site later.

Cookies can also be used for online behavioral advertising and to show relevant ads to something the user searched in the past.

How are they used?

The web server that supplies the web page can store a cookie on the user's computer or mobile device. An external web server that manages the files included or referenced in the web page can also store cookies. All these cookies are called http header cookies. Another way to store cookies is through the JavaScript code contained or referenced on that page.

Each time the user requests a new page, the web server can receive the values ​​of the cookies previously configured and return the page with the content related to these values. Similarly, the JavaScript code can read a cookie that belongs to your domain and take an action accordingly.

What are the different types of cookies?

A cookie can be classified by its useful life and the domain to which it belongs. For useful life, a cookie can be:

session cookie that is deleted when the user closes the browser or - persistent cookie that remains on the user's computer / device for a predefined period of time.

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are:

Originating cookies established by the web server of the page visited and that share the same domain: third-party cookies stored by a domain different from the domain of the visited page. This can happen when the web page refers to a file, such as JavaScript, located outside of your domain.

EU legislation on cookies: EUROPA websites should follow the Commission guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not used to collect information unnecessarily.

The ePrivacy directive more specifically, Article 5 (3) requires a prior informed consent for storage or access to information stored in a user's terminal equipment. No consent is required if the cookie is:

it is used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication, and is strictly necessary so that the provider of a service of the information society explicitly requires the user to provide said service.

Cookies clearly exempt from consent according to the EU.