Cookies Policy

Information about cookies

What is a cookie?

What is a cookie? A cookie is a small text file that is stored by the computer when a website is visited by a user. The text stores information that the website is able to read in the moment in which it is seen at a later time. Some of these cookies are necessary for the proper operation of the website, others are useful to the visitor because they can safely store such as the user name or language settings. The advantage of having cookies installed on your PC is to no longer need to fill out the same information each time you want to access a website visited previously.

Why do we use cookies?

Cookies are commonly used by websites to serve various functions. We use cookies on our website to enable us to customize our website and provide a better and tailored service to our Users. Our cookies help us to:

  • Offer you a feature suited to our website
  • Remember settings during visits and between one visit and the other
  • Increase the speed and security of the website
  • Improve/customize your navigation
  • Make marketing more efficient (keeping track of what works best for our visitors and offering relevant content)
  • Make our website easier to use
  • Provide generally better online experience

Cookies are not dangerous and do not constitute in themselves a threat to online privacy since we do not store sensitive data. On this website cookies are NOT ever used for the following purposes:

  • Collect personal information that can identify the person (without explicit permission)
  • Collect sensitive information
  • Transmit personal data to third parties

For more detailed and accurate information on cookies please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/

What are the different types of cookies?

Necessary Cookies or First party cookies: these cookies are sent directly from the website and can only be read by this website and are used to ensure the proper functioning of the website and concern, in particular, settings and preferences. Third party cookies: these cookies are used mainly by google for the following services: analytics, AdSense and YouTube. Third-party cookies are set by third parties; they can be tracking and are read during a visit to other websites in order to improve user navigation. Specific tracking cookies (referring also to anonymous visitors) are used to count how many people have visited our site, how long they have navigated the website and which page they liked more. This information helps us to continually improve our website. These cookies also communicate, anonymously, as to how many people have visited this website and if they have ever been here before. These features allow us to improve the navigation of visitors and ensure the development of the website that meets their expectations.

What cookies do we use?

The cookies used on our website have been grouped according to the categorization of the cookie of the International Chamber of Commerce of the United Kingdom to more easily explain what they are for.

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to the operation of our website. The legislation does not require the consent of the Users regarding strictly necessary cookies since they are essential to enable us to provide the services of this website.

2. Performance cookies

Performance cookies help us simply to improve the way our website works. We use these cookies to analyse how our visitors use our website and to monitor performance. They tell us how people use each page, which pages are most viewed and/or if there were errors. This allows us to provide a high quality experience and quickly identify and resolve any problem that may arise.

We may use performance cookies to:

  • Store your preferences to see which method of connection between the pages is more effective
  • Allow the analytical network to provide anonymous statistics about how you use our website
  • Provide assistance for handling errors while helping to improve the website with the evaluation of all the errors that occur

3. Feature cookies

We use feature cookies to provide improved services such as allow you to watch a video online. The legislation does not require the consent of the Users regarding the feature cookies. We inform registered members that using the social network, publishing a video from YouTube or Vimeo, connecting on Twitter, uploading a link, posting on Facebook or twitter, could be installed

How long cookies remain on your computer? On the website you can use two types of cookies: session and persistent. Session cookies – they are temporary cookies that remain on the device until the User leaves the website. Persistent cookies – they remain stored on the hard disk until the User delete them or they reach their expiration date. These cookies may, for example, be used to remember user preferences while using the website.

Consent

By clicking on the “accept” button or on the “disable cookies anyway” button present in the special banner that appears automatically when you enter this website, Users or visitors to the website can accept (consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this information) or not to accept cookies. Furthermore the Users or visitors of the website may at any time reset the use of cookies by clicking the link “management cookies” (link at the bottom of the website and that appears after you have accepted or rejected this information on cookies), then click on button “accept” or on the button “disable cookies anyway” in the banner that reappears after clicking on the link “manage cookies”.

How do I turn off cookies?

You can change your browser to turn off cookies through a very simple procedure. Warning: disabling cookies both username and password will no longer be stored on the login box of the website.

Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox
  2. Press the “Alt” key on the keyboard
  3. In the toolbar at the top of the browser, select “Tools” and then “Options”
  4. Then select the tab “Privacy”
  5. Go to “Settings History,” and then “Use custom settings”. Uncheck “Accept cookies from websites” and save preferences.

Internet Explorer:

  1. 1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Click on “Tools” and then “Internet Options”
  3. Select the “Privacy” tab and move the slider to the privacy level you want to set (up to block all cookies or down to allow all of them)
  4. Then click on OK

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Click on the “Tools”
  3. Select “Settings” and then “Advanced Settings”
  4. Select “Content settings” under “Privacy”
  5. In the tab “Cookies” you can deselect the cookies, and save preferences

Safari:

  1. Open Safari
  2. Choose “Preferences” in the toolbar, then select the panel “Security” in the dialog box that follows
  3. In the section “Accept Cookies” you can specify if and when Safari should save the cookies from websites. For more information click on the Help button (labelled with a question mark)
  4. For more information about cookies that are stored on your computer, click “Show Cookies”

This website uses cookies. We use cookies to customize your user experience and to study how you use our website. You consent to our cookies, if you continue to use this website. You may change your preferences at any time using the link “manage cookies” and clicking “disable cookies however,” at the bottom of the page. Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to streamline the experience for the user. The law says that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this website. For all other types of cookies we need your permission. This website uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages.

Strictly Necessary cookies

Cookie key Domain Cookie type Expiration Description
ASP.NET_SessionId www.stranich.it First-party Session General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

Performance cookies

Cookie key Domain Cookie type Expiration Description
_ga .stranich.it First-party 2 years This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics -which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
_gid .stranich.it First-party 1 day This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
_gat .stranich.it First-party 24 seconds This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

Targeting cookies

Cookie key Domain Cookie type Expiration Description
NID .google.com Third- party 6 months This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites.