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We use cookies to identify you when you visit this website and to keep track of your browsing patterns and build up a demographic profile.
Our use of cookies also allows registered users to be presented with a personalised version of the site, carry out transactions and have access to information about their account.
Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the menu on your browser, or look at the instruction on www.allaboutcookies.com. Please note however that turning off cookies will restrict your use of our website.
Essential
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Name | Session or Persistent | Purpose |
| PHPSESSID | Session | To store a simple message when a form is submitted that can be displayed on a different page. |
| wc_fragments_# | Session | Remembers items stored in your cart during a session. |
Non-essential
Statistics
| Name | Session or Persistent | Purpose |
| _ga | Persistent (2 years) | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users on a website to generate statistical information about their use of the website |
| _gat | Session | Google Analytics cookie used to throttles number of requests received by users |
| _gid | Session | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users on a website to generate statistical information about their use of the website |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Session | Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | Session | Unclassified |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | Session | Unclassified |
Marketing
| Name | Session or Persistent | Purpose |
| __atuvc | Persistent (1 year) | Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features. |
| __atuvs | Session | Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis. |
| ANON_ID | Persistent (3 months) | Collects data on user visits to the website, such as what pages have been accessed. The registered data is used to categorise the user’s interest and demographic profiles in terms of sales and target marketing. |
| at-lojson-cache-# | Persistent | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis. |
| bkdc | Persistent (179 days) | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP addresses, geographical location, visited websites and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
| bku | Persistent (1 year) | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP addresses, geographical location, visited websites and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
| bt2 | Persistent (255 days) | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to keep a record of parts of the site that have been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site. |
| collect | Session | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| demdex | Persistent (179 days) | Via a unique ID that is used for semantic content analysis, the user’s navigation on the website is registered and linked to offline data from surveys and similar registrations to display targeted ads. |
| di2 | Persistent (1 year) | Unclassified. |
| dpm | Persistent (179 days) | Targeted advertising tracking cookie used on a searchable map. |
| fr | Persistent (3 months) | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| GPS | Session | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
| IDE | Persistent (1 year) | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking on of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| jvxbksync | Persistent (13 days) | Unclassified |
| jvxsync | Persistent (1 year) | Unclassified |
| lidc | Session | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| loc | Persistent (1 year) | Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located. |
| mus | Persistent (1 year) | Unclassified |
| ouid | Persistent (1 year) | Unclassified |
| PREF | Persistent (8 months) | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses Youtube videos across different websites. |
| r/collect | Session | Unclassified |
| SEUNCY | Persistent (179 days) | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device for return visits. |
| TapAd_DID | Persistent (2 months) | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is being used by a user. |
| TapAd_TS | Persistent (2 months) | Used to determine what type of smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. |
| test_cookie | Session | Used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| tr | Session | Unclassified |
| uid | Persistent (1 year) | Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by a Clearspring Technologies, uses the ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. |
| uvc | Persistent (1 year) | Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. |
| vc | Persistent (1 year) | Used by the sharing platform AddThis. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Persistent (1 year) | Tried to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| xtc | Persistent (1 year) | Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. |
| YSC | Session | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
How to control cookies
You can decide which cookies you want to accept through the browser settings. The default settings of most browsers require the acceptance of cookies, but if you do not wish us to track your cookie information you can set your browser to reject cookies. There are also various types of software that can act on the cookie, such as web services or browser add-ons.
The ‘Help’ menu of your internet browser can help you finding out how to remove cookies.
Below some quick links to help pages:
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/windows7/block-enable-or-allow-cookie
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Attivare%20e%20disattivare%20i%20cookie
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=it
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT201265
Reject cookies
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Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel
With your permission our website utilises the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA (“Facebook”). This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy Facebook conversion tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
Only users over 13 years of age may give their permission. If you are younger please consult your legal guardians.
Please click the following link if you would like to revoke your permission https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/.