WHAT ARE COOKIES?

 

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to the hard drive of your computer when accessing certain web pages or applications. Cookies allow, among other things, to collect statistical information, facilitate certain technical functions, store and retrieve information about the browsing habits or preferences of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which they use your computer, can be used to recognize the user. Keep in mind that cookies cannot harm your equipment and that, in return, the fact that they are activated helps us to identify and resolve possible errors.

 

There are several types of cookies:

 

Own or third-party cookies: they are own when the cookies are managed from the terminal or domain of the same editor. From third parties, when they are not sent by the editor himself, but by another entity.

 

Session and persistent cookies: in session cookies, the data collected is only collected while the user is browsing the web page. In the case of persistent data, the data continues to be stored in the terminal and can be accessed for a certain period of time.

Technical/personalization/analysis/advertising cookies: technical cookies would be those that allow controlling traffic and data communication; those of personalization, those that allow users to access according to some of their own characteristics that are collected (browser, language, etc.). The analysis ones collect data on the behavior of users and allow the creation of a user profile. Finally, advertising companies collect data on the management of advertising spaces.

 

Our page displays content from external providers, such as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

 

To access third-party content, users must first accept the conditions that they apply (including their cookie policies, beyond our control). If users choose not to access these contents, these third-party cookies are not installed on their devices.

Third-party services are beyond the control of THE COMPANY. The providers can modify at any time their conditions of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

 

Our website uses cookies. The strictly necessary ones are installed automatically. Those that can be used to personalize content and ads, offer social networking functions and analyze traffic, are at your choice, check or uncheck the boxes that you will find when browsing our website at your discretion.

 

The regulations establish that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of the website. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

 

Below, we detail the type of cookies we use on our website.

 

Summary table of cookies used on our website

 

https://www.gios.it

 

Name _ga /_gat/_gid

third party origin

Purpose Generate a unique user identifier, which is used to count how many times a user visits the site, as well as the date of the first and last time they visited the web. Record the date and time of access to any of the pages of the Site. Check the need to keep a user's session open or create a new one. Identify the user's session, to collect the approximate geographic location of the computer that accesses the Site for statistical purposes.

Permanent/temporary duration

 

REVOCATION OF INSTALLATION OF COOKIES

 

The user will have the possibility to decide if they keep cookies enabled on their computer through the cookie manager enabled for said purpose.

 

The user who wants to disable the cookies accepted up to now can do so from the preferences section of their Internet browser. This configuration must be done in each browser, if you do it in one browser and not in the rest of the same device, it will be assumed that in the others you accept the use of cookies.

 

As each browser has different configurations, you should go to the help section of each one to see the particular case. This section mentions the most common ones, however due to updates to the browsers or operating system you are using, this may vary. The best thing is that you always go to the user manuals of your browser.

 

Chrome: Go to Menu – Settings (on Mac: Preferences) – Advanced Settings – Privacy – Here you choose whether to configure cookies or delete existing cookies. For more information you can visit Chrome help.

 

Internet Explorer: Go to Tools – Internet Options – Privacy – Privacy – Settings – Advanced Options. Set what you want. For more information you can visit the browser's own help section

 

Firefox: Go to Menu – Preferences – Privacy – Show cookies – Configure according to what you want. For more information you can visit the help section of the browser

Safari: Safari – Preferences – Privacy – Make the desired settings. For more information you can visit Apple help

 

Cookies policy last updated on 16.11.2022