What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to the User’s device (PC, smartphone, tablet…) when they visit a website. At each subsequent visit, the cookies are sent back to the website that originated them (first-party cookies) or to another site that recognizes them (third-party cookies). Cookies allow a website to recognize a User’s device. They have various purposes such as, for example, allowing you to navigate efficiently between pages, remembering your favorite sites and, in general, improving the browsing experience. They also help to ensure that the advertising content displayed online is more targeted to the user and in line with his interests (targeting cookies or profiling cookies). Cookies may have a limited duration of a single browsing session and, in this case, they are automatically deactivated when the browser is closed; or they may have a predetermined expiry, and in this case they will remain stored and active on the user’s device until that expiry, continuing to collect information during different browsing sessions on the browser. There are also other information collection technologies with similar purposes to those of cookies and stored on the user’s device (such as pixels). In this information the term cookie is used with reference to cookies, as described above, and with reference to any other collection technology, with the aim of providing the User with a guide to understand what cookies and other similar technologies are, such as and why they are used, what rights are recognized to Users and what choices they can make regarding their use.
Cookies and similar technologies – definitions
Cookies: small text files (generally made up of letters and numbers) that the websites (so-called “first party”) visited by the User or different websites or web servers (so-called “third parties”) place and store within the browser used by the User for browsing on any terminal device capable of storing information.
Other Technologies: technologies that store data in the browser or device used by the User using locally shared objects or local storage, e.g. flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods. These technologies work in all browsers. In some cases, the use of local storage cannot be fully managed by browsers, but requires management through specific tools.
Categories of cookies
Cookies can be distinguished based on their purpose, duration and the owner of the cookie.
Cookies may be the property of the site and service manager and, therefore, are installed by the latter in the browser of the User’s device, so-called first party cookies. It may happen that a Site contains cookies, coming from other sites, owned by third parties, contained in various elements hosted on the site itself (for example, advertising banners, images, videos, sounds…) and in this case these are so-called. third-party cookies.
Cookies used by this website
The visit to https://impact-acmproject.eu/ website involves the use of cookies to improve the user experience. The site uses: technical navigation cookies, analytical cookies and profiling cookies for marketing purposes.
The user can, at any time, manage their preferences or refuse the installation of cookies.
The user can, at any time, manage their preferences or refuse the installation of cookies.
Retention times of personal data collected via cookies
The information and data collected through cookies will be stored for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which each cookie was installed.
To access specific information relating to the storage of information acquired through the use of first-party and third-party cookies, and manage their preferences, the User can access the cookie center at any time.
User rights and management of cookie preferences
The User is granted the rights provided for by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (so-called GDPR), including the right of access, opposition, cancellation, as well as to modify their choices on the use of cookies at any time, through the cookie center. For further information and details on the User’s rights and how to exercise their rights, the User can consult the complete Privacy Policy (insert link by clicking on “privacy policy”).
Disabling cookies from your browser
The User, in addition to disabling cookies via the cookie center, can configure their browser to limit the number of cookies accepted, block all cookies or delete them, from the browser settings in the following ways:
Data Controller and contact information
The Data Controller is the Italbiotec Consortium (C.F./VAT number 02429600121), with registered office in Milan in Piazza della Trivulziana 4/A, in the person of its legal representative pro tem; pec: consorzio@pec.italbiotec.it. The User may send, at any time, requests for information or clarifications to the before mentioned address or via the additional methods indicated in the Privacy Policy (https://impact-acmproject.eu/privacy-policy/).