Cookies Policy

In line with European legislation, www.piofoglia.com aims to ensure that every website user understands what cookies are and why they are used for so as the users can make informed decisions whether they want the cookies on their devices or not. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of your user’s computer through an anonymous code that may identify your the computer but not the user and passively track its activities on the website.

The cookies are classified in four categories, upon their functions:

– Strictly necessary cookies
– Performance cookies
– Functionality cookies
– Advertising cookies

www.piofoglia.com use the following cookies categories, which consent is not required for the delivery of these:

1. Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. These cookies can be compared to “technical cookies” when alternately are directly used by the site’s administrator to collect information in aggregate form or are managed by third parties and are adopted specific means in order to reduce the cookies capability to identify users (for example, by masking significant IP address portions) and the third parties uses them exclusively for the provision of the service. For example they store cookies data separately without crossing them or enrich with any available personal data.

2. Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you the user makes (such as your username, language or the region you are the user is in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to provide services you have the user has asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your the user’s browsing activity on other websites.

These cookies are also called technical cookies.
All the above mentioned cookies are called persistent as their duration is set by the server at the time of their creation.

MANAGING COOKIES PREFERENCIES

Some of the cookies we use in our sites are served by us and some are served by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf.

The user can change settings of third party cookies referring to the links listed below (Third Parties Cookies). Anyway, it’s possible to find further information about cookies and how to manage all cookies by changing the browser settings.

Please refer to the following links in order to manage cookies in different browsers:

Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
Opera

Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on our sites the user may not be able to take full advantage of our sites.

Cookies list

Please find below a detailed list of all the cookies used by Pio Foglia on this website and the way to manage them.

Cookie Name Provider Description
PHPSESSID Pio Foglia Session cookie
cookie_notice_accepted Pio Foglia Check on cookie acceptance

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Some third party cookies are set by services that appear on our pages. They are set by the operators of that service and are not in our control. We invite the user to check the privacy policy and how to cancel the cookies set by these services at the addresses listed in the sections below. Third parties have full responsibility of the third parties cookie.
www.piofoglia.com does not accept liability for the contents and cookies of external links, which can be changed without notice by the respective operators. www.piofoglia.com provides the users with the third parties cookies’ purposes and the link to the third parties Information to data subjects.

Cookie Name Provider Description More info
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Google Analytics Google Analytics cookies enable to track visitors behaviour and measure site performance. For example, these cookies distinguish between users and sessions and are used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies

Pio Foglia website includes components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). These are third-party cookies collected and managed in aggregate way  to monitor and improve the performance of our websites (analytic cookies).
By default Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and analyze information on the behavior of users of the website, including IP address. This information is collected by Google Analytics, which processes it in order to prepare reports on the activities of users on the website. This site: uses IP masking and anonymization so Google Analytics removes the last octet of the user’s IP address prior to using and storage them (for more information, read about IP anonymization in Google Analytics, or visit Google security and privacy overview), it does not use and do not allow third parties to use the analysis tool of Google to track or collect personally identifiable information. The use of these cookies is subject to contractual restrictions with Google, in which it is recalled the Google’s commitment in using these cookies only for the service provision, to store them separately and not to “enrich” or “cross them” with other information available. On this point Pio Foglia informs that there’s no use of any additional service of Google Analytics and there’s no advertising option activated or data sharing with Google.
For more information, please refer to the link below:

Google Privacy and Terms for partners

The users can selectively disable the Google Analytics action by installing on his browser the opt-out component provided by Google. For more information, please refer to the links below:

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
Support Google Analytics
My Account Google Analytics

YouTube

The user could find that a content of a website page, normally a videoclip, is delivered by Youtube.  When clicks on this part of the page to enjoy the content, YouTube sets cookies that collect IP address and performance of the user.

YouTube (Google)

By continuing navigation on this website, the user consents to the use of cookies and agrees that understands this cookie policy.