COOKIES

Information on cookies

Web-sites utilize useful and intelligent techniques to increase ease of use and to make web-sites more interesting for each visitor. One of the most known techniques requires the use of cookies. Cookies can be used by Web-sites owners or third parties, for example advertisers, that communicate through the visited web-site.

Cookies are small text files that the web-site memorizes on the users'PC. The information contained in the cookies can be used also to keep trace on the surfing done on various web-sites that use the same cookies.

Cookies are classified based on the duration and on the web-site that has set them up.

We think that it is essential to give our users all information on the cookies that our web-site uses and the scopes why they are utilized. The target is triple: grant your privacy, ensure simplicity of use and optimize development of our web-sites. The explanation reported here below shows more in detail the cookies used on our web-sites and their scopes.

 

USE OF THE COOKIES BY A.Z. BIGIOTTERIE S.A.S.

A.Z. Bigiotterie S.A.S. uses cookies to collect statistical data on the visitors and to register anonimous and aggregated information on the visualized pages of our web-site. Our scope for using cookies is to improve the experience offered to our visitors.

We do not use tracing cookies or from third parties except from Google Analytics (reduced tracing capacity with ip mask).

 

COOKIES AND RELATED FUNCTIONALITY

Based on the single targets, different cookies are being used.

Here following is a list of the most common types of cookies and the scopes why they are used.

3.1 SESSION COOKIES

Session cookies are temporarily filed on PC's data storage during a web-site exploration, for example, to keep trace of the choice on a language. Session cookies remain on the PC's data storage for a short period of time. They are in fact eliminated as soon as the user closes the web browser.

3.2 PERMANENT COOKIES

Permanent cookies save a specific file on a computer for a long period of time. This type of cookie has an expiry date. Permanent cookies allow web-sites to remember information and setting ups for following visits of the users, thus making the surfing quicker and practical, because for example it is not required to access again.

At the expiry date, the cookie is authomatically deleted when you access the web-site for the first time.

3.3 COOKIES FROM FIRST PARTIES

These cookies are set up by web-sites themselves (with same domain of that indicated on the browser address bar) and can be read only by those web-sites. Normally they are used to file information such as preferences, to be used for following site visits.

3.4 COOKIES FROM THIRD PARTIES

These cookies are set up by domains that are different from the one indicated on the browser address bar, that means by organizations that do not correspond to web-sites owners.

The cookies used, for example, to collect information for advertising reasons and personalization of contents, besides being used for elaboration of web statistics, can be "cookies from third parties".

Cookies from third parties allow to obtain surveys that are more complete on the surfing habits of the visitors and they are considered more sensitive from an integrity point of view. For this reason, the majority of web browsers permits to modify setting ups so that such cookies cannot be accepted.

Here following is a list of the services used by A.Z. Bigiotterie web-site that set up cookies from third parties:

3.4.1 GOOGLE ANALYTICS (GOOGLE)

Google Analytics is a service of web analysis by Google, Inc. ("Google") that uses "cookies" to collect personal data from the visitor and are passed down to and registered by the Google servers in the United States. Google uses this information for tracing and examining your use of the web-site, fill in reports on the web-site activity for operators of the web-site and provide other services related to activities and use of the Internet. Google does not match IP user’s address to any other data possessed by Google. The eventual refuse to use cookies, by selecting the appropriate setting on your browser might prevent the use of all functions of this web-site.

 

HANDLE OF COOKIES

As cookies are normal text files, it is possible to access them by using the majority of text editors or text elaboration programmes. To open them it is sufficient to click on them. Here following is a list of links that explain how to view cookies inside the various browsers. If your browser is not listed, please refer to the cookies information provided by the browser itself. If you use a cell phone, please read the handbook to grab further information.

4.1 FIREFOX

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

4.2 CHROME

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647&topic=14666&ctx=topic

4.3 INTERNET EXPLORER

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies

4.4 SAFARI

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?viewlocale=en_EN

 

DEACTIVATE/ACTIVATE OR ELIMINATE COOKIES

Cookies can be limited or blocked through browser setting up.

If you prefer that web-sites do not memorize any cookie in your computer, set up the browser so that you can receive a notification before any cookie filing. Alternatively, you can set up the browser so that it refuses all cookies, or only cookies from third parties. You can also eliminate all cookies already in the system. It is important to underline that all set upS must be modified separately in every browser and computer used.

If you set up a block for cookies memorisation, A.Z.Bigiotterie S.A.S. cannot grant a correct functioning of the web-site. Some functions of the web-site might be not available and it might also be that some web-sites cannot be visited anymore. Moreover, the block of cookies does not eliminate visualization of advertisements. Simply, these will not be personalized following your interests and will be suggested more frequently.

In every browser the set up will be modified following a different procedure. If necessary, you can use the function Guide on your browser to define the correct set up.

To deactivate cookies on cell phones, please read the handbook to grab further information.

More detailed information on internet cookies is availble at this address: http://www.aboutcookies.org/

 

OTHER COOKIES/UNFORSEEN COOKIES

Considering the functioning of internet and web-sites, we are not always able to control cookies that are memorized by third parties through our web-site. This applies especially when the web page contains the so called incorporated elements: texts, documents, images or short films that are filed somewhere else, but are visualized in or through our web-site.

Consequently, should we find out there is a cookie that is not linked to one of the listed services from third parties, we kindly ask you to please report it. Alternatively, you can contact directly the third parties and ask for information on the cookies that they send, for which reasons, which is their duration and how they grant the visitors’ privacy.