Cookie Policy - Gruppo Fini

Cookie and Privacy Policy for www.gruppofini.it in compliance with provision no. 229/2014 of the Italian Data Protection Authority.

A cookie is a small text file, which collects brief information on how a user uses an Internet website. It then stores that information on the device that has accessed the website.
The Italian Data Protection Authority has acknowledged the provisions recently introduced by European Legislation and its Directive No. 229/2014 rules that web page administrators must show visitors a banner to informs them of the cookie policy of the website they are using, which they must accept in order to continue browsing.
If you require further information or you have questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us via e-mail at the following address:
info@gruppofini.it

This page describes how your personal information is received and collected and how it is used by www.gruppofini.it
. We use cookies, i.e. text files, to facilitate user browsing.

GENERAL AND PRELIMINARY OVERVIEW

1) What are cookies?
Cookies are text files, which the sites you visit send to your browser and which are then stored in order to be sent back to that site at your next visit.
Cookies are divided into two main categories: technical cookies and profiling cookies (see below).
2) What are cookies used for?
Cookies are used mainly to monitor user sessions, to authenticate users so they can access a website without having to enter their name and password each time, to store their preferences and digital behaviour (number of pages visited, time spent reading individual website pages, etc.).
3) What are technical cookies?
So-called technical cookies help users browse and facilitate their access to and use of the website.
They are IT tools, which merely exchange technical data between the user and the website viewed in order to make browsing easier, quicker and more specific.
Technical cookies are essential, e.g. to access platforms, such as Google or Facebook, without having to be identified at each session.
They are also essential in very sensitive transactions, e.g. home banking or payment via credit card or via other computerised systems.
4) What are profiling cookies?
These are cookies used to track the users’ browsing in order to create profiles of their tastes, preferences, interests and also their searches.
These tools enable targeted adverts to be created according to the user’s tastes and browsing habits.
In other words, profiling cookies are used to create the user’s profile, track past tastes to create and put together adverts targeted to that person’s preferences.
5) Is the user’s consent required to install cookies on their device?
Technical cookies do not require any consent, whereas profiling cookies can be installed on the user’s device only after the latter has been given straightforward information and has given consent.
6) How can webmasters ask for consent?
The Data Protection Authority has established that when a user accesses a website, a banner must appear containing brief information, a request for consent and a link to the full privacy policy, such as the one on this page, with an explanation of profiling cookies and how they are used on that particular website.
7) What does the banner have to look like?
The banner must be designed to conceal a part of the page contents and specify that the site uses profiling cookies even from third parties.
Only the user must be able to actively remove the banner, such as via a simple click.
8) What instructions does the banner have to contain?
The banner must contain brief information, the link for the full privacy policy and the button to give consent to the use of profiling cookies.
9) How is consent documentation for the use of cookies kept?
A technical cookie can be used to remember the user’s consent so the latter does not have to give consent on a future visit to the website.
10) Can consent to the use of cookies be given only with a banner?
No. Other systems can be used, provided they adhere to the same requisites.
The banner is not mandatory for websites which only use technical cookies.
11) What should be included in the full privacy policy notice?
It should give details of the cookies installed even by third parties.
It should also inform the user on how to browse the website without his preferences being tracked and giving him the opportunity of browsing incognito and of erasing individual cookies.
12) Who has to inform the Data Protection Authority it is using profiling cookies?
The owner of the website is obliged to do this.
If the website only uses third party profiling cookies, it does not have to inform the Data Protection Authority. However, it must indicate which ones are third party cookies and provide the links to their privacy policy notices.
13) When will this legislation come into force?
This legislation came into force on 2 June 2015.

COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITES OF WWW.gruppofini.it
Log files: like many other websites, ours also uses log files. It records the chronology of the user’s actions while browsing.
The information contained in the log files includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date, time, entry and exit page and number of clicks.
All this is to analyse the trends, manage the website, monitor the user’s movement within the website and collect demographic data, IP addresses and other information.
This data cannot in any way reveal the user’s identity and are technical cookies.
www.gruppofini.it only uses technical cookies provided by Google Analytics, AddThis and WordPress in a completely anonymous format for merely statistical purposes, aiming only to improve browsing experience on our website.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
www.gruppofini.it uses cookies to store information regarding visitors’ preferences and the pages the user visits, and to customise contents according to the browser type used and depending on other information sent by that person.

Although not expressly used by www.gruppofini.it, we are listing the main third parties who can detect browsing and store personal data depending on the user’s habits and browser software (the list is merely an example and www.gruppofini.it reserves the right to add contents and cookies according to the technical development of its websites):
1) DoubleClick DART Cookies: Google introduced these cookies to display Adsense adverts. www.gruppofini.it does not have the Adsense advertising service. However, Google may use this tool to show users more targeted adverts based on their browser history.
Users can accept or block this type of cookie in their browser by visiting the relevant Privacy, Terms and Conditions page.
Further information on the types and use Google makes of cookies for advertising purposes can be found on the web page entitled Types of cookies used.

Some Google Adsense advertising partners may use cookies and similar tools to track users. However, www.gruppofini.it has no regulatory power whatsoever over the use these parties may make of the data they have collected.
2) Facebook cookies: www.gruppofini.it uses some Facebook plug-ins which can track readers’ behaviour.
For further information, please read Facebook’s Privacy Policy page entitled.
3) Twitter: this social media network may process your personal data to enable an improved browser experience with more functions and services. Currently, www.gruppofini.it does not use any Twitter tool or plugin connection. However, for a full explanation you can consult their privacy policy at the following link Twitter Cookie Privacy Policy.
4) Google+: Google may process personal data via JavaScript plusone.js according to these guidelines Google Cookie Privacy Policy. www.gruppofini.it uses links with the Google+ platform.
5) Pinterest: it processes personal data according to the following guidelines Pinterest Privacy Policy. www.gruppofini.it does not use this tool.
6) Linkedin: this is another social media network that processes personal data according to the following guidelines Linkedin Cookie Policy. www.gruppofini.it does not use this tool.
7) Blogger and Google Friend Connect: these platforms use cookies for statistics according to the following guidelines Blogger and Friend Connect Cookie Policy. www.gruppofini.it does not use these apps on its websites.
8) Instagram: this social media uses its own and third party profiling cookies according to this policy Cookie Info about Instagram. www.gruppofini.it does not use any cookies linked to Instagram.

THIRD PARTIES PRESENT ON THIS WEBSITE
Third party servers or advertising networks have access to this site if they use this technology to send adverts to your browser via the data collected on www.gruppofini.it.
By detecting the individual IP address, third parties will show the most relevant advertising for the user’s interests and tastes.
Third party advertising networks can use similar technologies (e.g., cookies, web beacons and JavaScript) to measure the effectiveness of the advertising messages and to personalise the contents of those messages.
The www.gruppofini.it website and its webmaster have no control whatsoever over cookies used by the aforementioned third parties and, therefore, for further information we advise you to read the privacy policies of those third parties to find your options to prevent the information from being collected.
The webmaster for www.gruppofini.it is, therefore, unable to control the activities of third parties that come into contact with data collected via cookies.
It is, however, possible to block the cookies directly from your browser.
The www.gruppofini.it website uses/does not use its own profiling cookies. Those present on the site are controlled exclusively by third parties e.g. Google, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc…
These provisions by the Italian Data Protection Authority are not merely Italian, but are common to the majority of European countries.
You can find the rules for each jurisdiction by consulting the website Your Online Choices in your own language.

USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS ON THIS WEBSITE
We wish to inform the user that www.gruppofini.it uses the Google Analytics service in a strictly anonymous form for purely statistical purposes and to improve-optimise its website’s contents and structure.
Google Analytics cookies used by www.gruppofini.it are, therefore, considered as technical cookies.
Please remember that this data is used only for statistics concerning the most visited pages, visitor numbers, aggregated visit data for each operational system, browser, etc. (including market research and analysis, commercial flow statistics, preparation of targeted adverts).
Google Analytics IPs are kept anonymous according to the settings offered by that tool.
These parameters are stored on Google servers and Google regulates the Privacy and storage according to these guidelines.
The user can disable Google Analytics while browsing by using one of the various additional components, available free of charge for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari.
You can also:

delete cookies individually for each domain.
hide your search history
set Google advertisement settings.

ANONYMOUS BROWSING
You can browse without using technical and profiling cookies with what is known as anonymous browsing, which is feasible with all the main browsers.

LEGAL INFORMATION
www.gruppofini.it will not be held liable for the use any third party may make of stored personal cookies.
www.gruppofini.it does not conduct any commercial or profit-making transaction. It merely takes users’ data solely for completely anonymous, statistical purposes.
By accepting this privacy policy and cookies, the user expressly holds www.gruppofini.it harmless for any liability due on whatever grounds.
www.gruppofini.it does not keep, store or save visiting users’ personal data, which it collects anonymously and uses solely for statistical purposes, without any commercial or profit-making purpose.
For further clarifications, information or explanations on the legislation under examination, please refer to the Data Protection Authority’s website.

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