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What are cookies?
Cookies are information you enter on your browser when visiting a website or using a social network with your PC, smartphone or tablet.
Each cookie contains several data such as the name of the server from which it comes, a numeric identifier, etc.
Cookies can remain in the system for the length of a session (ie until the web browser is used to surf the web) or for long periods and may contain a unique identifier.
What are cookies?
Some cookies are used to perform computer authentication, session tracking, and storage of specific information about users accessing a web page.
These cookies, so-called technicians, are often useful because they can make web browsing and enjoy faster and faster, for example, they facilitate some procedures when shopping online, when you trust confidential access areas, or when a web site automatically recognizes the language you usually use.
A particular type of cookie, called analytics, is then used by website managers to gather aggregated information about the number of users and how they visit the site, and then elaborate general statistics on the service and its use.
Other cookies can be used to track and profiling users while browsing, studying their web browsing habits and habits (what they buy, what they read, etc.), also in order to send targeted advertising services and custom (cd Behavioral Advertising). Let’s talk about profiling cookies in this case.
For example: You have ever visited a service site, use your webmail or access your page on a social network and find banners related to your latest web searches or the latest Internet shopping ?
This is because those web spaces are designed to recognize your PC or other terminal you use to connect to the web (smartphones, tablets), and possibly target “promotional” promotional messages based on your searches and your use of the Internet.
It may also happen that a webpage contains cookies from other sites and contained in various items hosted on the same page, such as banners, images, videos, etc. We speak in these cases so-called third-party cookies that they are usually used for profiling purposes.
So cookies that you download on pc, smartphone, and tablet can be read by other people, other than those who manage the web pages you visit.
Cookies and privacy
Considering the particular invasiveness that profiling cookies (especially third-party) may have in the private sphere of users, European and Italian legislation provide that the user should be properly informed about their use and express their validity consent to inserting cookies on your terminal.
In particular, with the measure “Identifying simplified ways for informing and obtaining consent for the use of cookies” of May 8, 2014 [doc web n. 3118884], the Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data has determined that when accessing the home page or another webpage of a website that uses cookies for profiling and marketing purposes must immediately appear a well visible banner indicating clearly:
1) The site uses profiling cookies to send targeted advertising messages;
2) That the site also allows you to send “third party” cookies if you use this type of cookie, ie cookies installed from a different site through the site you are visiting;
3) a link to wider information, with directions on the use of cookies sent by the site, where you can deny consent to their installation directly or by connecting to the various sites in the case of “third party cookies”;
4) The indication that continuing in navigation (eg, accessing another site area or selecting an image or link) is consent to the use of cookies
In any case, in addition to the protection provided, you also have other options to navigate without cookies
Block third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are generally not necessary to navigate, so you can refuse them by default through specific browser features.
Enable the Do Not Track option
The Do Not Track option is present in most latest generation browsers. Web sites designed to comply with this option, when activated, should automatically stop collecting some of your navigation data. As mentioned, however, not all websites are set up to comply with this (discretionary) option.
Enable anonymous navigation mode
With this feature you can navigate without leaving a trace in the navigation data browser. Sites will not remember you, pages you visit will not be stored in the history and new cookies will be deleted.
Anonymous navigation does not, however, guarantee anonymity on the Internet because it only serves to keep your browsing data in your browser, but your navigation data will remain available to web site managers and connectivity providers.
Eliminates cookies directly
There are special features to do in all browsers. However, remember that new cookies are downloaded to every Internet connection, so the delete operation should be performed periodically. Wanting, some browsers offer automated systems for periodic deletion of cookies.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONSULT:
GUARANTEE FOR PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
