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 site is able to read when it is consulted at a later time. Some of these cookies are necessary for the site to function properly, while others are useful to the visitor because they are able to safely store, for example, the user name or language settings. The advantage of having cookies installed on your PC is that you no longer need to fill in the same information every time you want to access a previously visited site.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies in order to provide customers with an experience modeled as much as possible around their preferences. Cookies ensure that every time you visit the site you do not have to receive or enter the same information. Cookies are also used to optimize website performance. We also use cookies called analytics to collect information, in anonymous and aggregate form, on the number of visits to the site and on how users use the site for the sole purpose of generating statistical processing on the service. Some pages of the site may install third-party cookies that allow you to manage and improve the services offered. For example, the statistical services of Google Analytics (for more information on the Google Analytics cookie policy click here). It is possible to choose not to authorize analysis cookies through the third party site.

How to disable/delete cookies by configuring the browser

Chrome

1. Run Chrome Browser
2. Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the url entry window for navigation
3. Select Settings
4. Click Show Advanced Settings
5. In the "Privacy" section, click on the "Content settings" button
6. In the "Cookies" section it is possible to change the following cookie settings:

• Allow saving data locally
• Change local data only until the browser is closed
• Prevent sites from setting cookies
• Block third-party cookies and site data
• Manage exceptions for some internet sites
• Delete one or all cookies

For more information, visit the dedicated page.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Run the Mozilla Firefox Browser
2. Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the url entry window for navigation
3. Select Options
4. Select the Privacy
5. Click Show Advanced Settings
6. In the "Privacy" section, click on the "Content settings" button
7. In the "Tracking" section it is possible to change the following cookie settings:

• Request sites not to do any tracking
• Communicate to sites the willingness to be tracked
• Do not communicate any preferences regarding the tracking of personal data

8. From the "History" section it is possible to:

• By enabling "Use custom settings", select to accept third-party cookies (always, from the most visited or never visited sites) and to keep them for a specific period (until they expire, close Firefox or ask each time)
• Remove individual stored cookies.

For more information, visit the dedicated page.

Internet Explorer

1. Run the Internet Explorer Browser
2. Click the Tools button and choose Internet Options
3. Click on the Privacy and, in the Settings, change the slider according to the desired action for the cookies:

• Block all cookies
• Allow all cookies
• Select the sites from which to obtain cookies: move the cursor to an intermediate position so as not to block or allow all cookies, then press on Sites, in the Web Site Address box enter an internet site and then press on Block or Allow.

For more information, visit the dedicated page.

Safari 6

1. Launch the Safari browser
2. Click on Safari, select Preferences and click on Privacy
3. In the Block Cookies section, specify how Safari should accept cookies from websites.
4. To view which sites have stored the cookies click on Details

For more information, visit the dedicated page.

Safari iOS (mobile devices)

1. Run the iOS Safari Browser
2. Tap on Settings and then Safari 3. Tap on Block Cookies and choose from the various options: "Never", "Third-party and advertisers" or "Always"
3. To delete all cookies stored by Safari, tap on Settings, then on Safari and finally on Clear Cookies and data.

For more information, visit the dedicated page.

Opera

1. Run the Opera
2. Click on Preferences then on Advanced and finally on Cookies
3. Select one of the following options:

• Accept all cookies
• Accept cookies only from the site you are visiting: third-party cookies and those sent from a domain other than the one you are visiting will be rejected
• Never accept cookies: all cookies will never be saved. For more information, visit the dedicated page.