Cookies are small text strings that are stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. Cookies can perform different functions, such as allowing you to navigate between different pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and, in general, can improve the user’s experience on the site.

Some cookies are used for computer authentication, session monitoring, and storage of specific information about users who access a web page. These so-called technical cookies are often useful because they can make browsing and use of the web faster and more efficient, such as by facilitating certain procedures when you make online purchases, when you authenticate to restricted areas, or when a website automatically recognizes the language, you usually use.

A particular type of cookie, called analytics or tracking cookies, is used by website operators to collect information, in aggregate form, about the number of users and how they visit the site, and then process general statistics on the service and its usage.

Other cookies may be used to monitor and profile users during browsing, study their movements and habits in consulting the web or consumption, even for the purpose of sending targeted and personalized advertising services. We are talking in this case of profiling or marketing cookies.

It may also happen that a web page contains cookies from other sites and contents in various elements hosted on the same page, such as advertising banners, images, videos, etc. In these cases, we speak of so-called third-party cookies, which are usually used for profiling purposes. Therefore, the cookies you download on your PC, smartphone, and tablet can be read by other subjects, different from those who manage the web pages you visit.

If you want to learn more, visit the following websites:

www.allaboutcookies.org
www.youronlinechoices.eu
www.garanteprivacy.it/cookie