ABIServizi S.p.A. (hereinafter also “ABIServizi”) wishes to provide, pursuant to and for the purposes of Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”) and of Legislative Decree 101/2018, which supplements and amends Legislative Decree 196/2003, the so-called Privacy Code, some information on the processing of the personal data of the user (“data subject”) acquired or communicated while browsing this platform (hereinafter, for brevity, the “Site” or “Platform”) by means of so-called Cookies.
This cookie policy refers exclusively to this platform (hereinafter, for brevity, the “Site” or “Platform”) and is to be understood as an integral part of its Privacy Policy.
Data controller and data protection officer
The controller of personal data is ABIServizi S.p.A., with registered office in Rome, 00186 – Piazza del Gesù 49, e-mail: [email protected].
The Company has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO), tasked with ensuring compliance with the rules protecting your privacy, who may be contacted on matters concerning the processing of your data and the exercise of your rights at the e-mail address: [email protected].
Further information on your rights can be found in the dedicated section “Rights of data subjects”.
1. Definitions, features and application of the legislation
Cookies are small text files that the sites visited by the user send to and store on the user’s computer or mobile device, to be retransmitted to those same sites on the next visit. It is thanks to cookies that a site remembers the user’s actions and preferences (such as, for example, login details, the chosen language, font sizes, other display settings, etc.) so that they do not have to be entered again when the user returns to that site or browses from one page to another within it.
Cookies are therefore used to carry out computer authentication, session monitoring and the storage of information about the activities of the users who access a site, and may also contain a unique identifying code that makes it possible to track the user’s browsing within the site for statistical or advertising purposes. While browsing a site, the user may also receive on their computer or mobile device cookies from sites or web servers other than the one being visited (so-called “third-party” cookies).
Some operations could not be carried out without the use of cookies, which in certain cases are therefore technically necessary for the very operation of the site.
There are various types of cookie, depending on their features and functions, and they may remain on the user’s computer or mobile device for different periods of time: so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed; and so-called persistent cookies, which remain on the user’s device until a pre-set expiry date.
Under the legislation in force in Italy, the use of cookies does not always require the user’s express consent. In particular, no such consent is required for “technical cookies”, that is those used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user. These are, in other words, cookies that are indispensable for the operation of the site or necessary to perform activities requested by the user.
Technical cookies, which do not require express consent, also include:
- “analytics cookies” where used directly by the site operator to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit the site,
- navigation or session cookies, which ensure normal browsing and use of the website (allowing, for example, a purchase to be made or authentication to access restricted areas);
- functionality cookies, which allow the user to browse according to a set of selected criteria (for example, language or the products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided.
For “profiling cookies”, on the other hand, that is those intended to create profiles of the user and used in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by that user while browsing the internet, the user’s prior consent is required.
2. Types of cookie used by the site
The Site uses only ‘technical cookies’, or cookies that may be treated as such, strictly necessary for the operation of the Site or to enable the user to make use of the content and services requested.
Last updated: July 2022.
This Notice may be subject to change. You are therefore advised to check this web page regularly and to refer to the most up-to-date version of the notice set out here.