1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that the visited sites send to their terminals, where they are stored before being re-transmitted to the same sites on your next visit. Cookies of so-called “third parties” are, instead, set by another website, not the one that the user is visiting. This is because in each site there could be elements (images, maps, sounds, specific links to web pages in other domains, etc.) that reside on other servers and not the one of the visited site.
2. What are cookies for?
Cookies are used for different purposes: execution of authentication information, monitoring sessions, storing information about specific configurations about users accessing the server, storing preferences, etc.
3. What are “technical” cookies?
They are cookies used to browse or provide a service requested by the user. They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed by the owner of the website. Without the use of these cookies, some operations could not be carried out or would be more complex and/or less secure. For these operations cookies are indispensable and allow to make and keep the user identification during the session.
4. Analytics cookies are “technical” cookies?
They may be treated as “technical” cookies only if used for the optimization of the site by the owner, which may collect aggregate information on the number of users and about how they visit the site. Under these conditions, analytics cookies are treated with the same rules, with regard to disclosure and consent, provided for “technical” cookies.
5. What are “profiling” cookies?
These are the cookies used to track the user’s navigation on the network and create profiles on his tastes, habits, choices, etc. These cookies can be transmitted to the user’s terminal advertising messages in line with the preferences already expressed by the user in navigating online.