Through this document, the Data Controller, Grimaldi Alliance, with registered office in Milan, Corso Europa, 12, P. IVA IT04063930962 – email privacy@grimaldialliance.com, provides users of the site https://www.grimaldialliance.com/ (hereinafter, the “Site”) with some information on the cookies used.
- WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text strings that the Site visited by the user sends to his/her terminal (usually to the browser), where they are stored in order to be retransmitted to the same site the next time the same user visits. During browsing, the user may also receive cookies on his/her terminal that are sent by different sites or web servers (so-called “third parties”), on which some elements (such as, for example, images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains) present on the site that the user is visiting may reside.
Cookies, which are present in users’ browsers often in very large numbers and sometimes also with characteristics of wide temporal persistence, are used for different purposes: performing computer authentication, session monitoring, storing information on specific configurations concerning users accessing the server, promoting and selling customized products and services.
Cookies differ from one another on the basis of the purpose for which they are used. In this regard, two macro-categories of cookies are identified: technical cookies and profiling cookies.
- Technical cookies
Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communication network, or to the extent strictly necessary to provide the service requested by the user. These cookies are usually installed by the owner or operator of the website on the user’s terminal without the user’s prior consent, on the basis of the need to provide the service requested by the user or the legitimate interest of the Data Controller in enabling the Site to function properly.
- Profiling cookies
Profiling cookies are those used to associate specific actions or patterns of behavior recurring in the use of the offered functionalities (“patterns”) to specific, identified or identifiable subjects, with the aim of grouping the various profiles within homogeneous clusters of different sizes, so that the Data Controller can, among other things, modulate the provision of the service in an increasingly personalized manner beyond what is strictly necessary for the provision of the service, and send targeted advertising messages, i.e. in line with the preferences expressed by the user when surfing the web. These cookies can be installed on the user’s terminal only with prior consent.
- Third-party cookies
Cookies may be installed on the user’s terminal equipment not only by the operator of the Site the user is visiting, but also by operators of different sites that install cookies through the former (so-called ‘third parties’).
- TYPES OF COOKIES USED BY THE SITE
Technical cookies
The Site uses technical cookies that enable it to recognize users who return to the Site and their data so that they do not have to enter the same information several times. These cookies do not require the user’s prior consent to be installed and used.
The Site uses navigation or session cookies, by means of which normal navigation and use of the Site is ensured. They make it possible, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate oneself to access restricted areas. These cookies are necessary for a better use of the Site.
Although technical cookies do not require the user’s prior consent to be installed and used, they can still be managed by the user through the browser settings (in the section “How to manage cookie settings”). However, deleting them may affect the full enjoyment of the Site.
Profiling cookies
The Site also uses cookies for analytical and statistical purposes, in order to improve the user’s interaction with the Site and customize the sending of communications of an advertising nature based on the purchases made and the interests expressed by the user (profiling). These cookies require the user’s prior consent.
Third-party cookies
Finally, third-party cookies are installed on the Site for the implementation of some particular functionalities. These cookies, for which the user’s consent is required, are set by a third-party domain, reside on third-party servers and are not directly controlled by this Site nor by the Data Controller.
The cookies currently present on the Site are listed below. For each of them, the identifier, the type, a brief description of how they work and the retention period are indicated.
- MUST COOKIES BE ACCEPTED IN ORDER TO VISIT THE WEBSITE?
Not necessarily: the user has the possibility to disable one, some or all cookies, including first-party cookies. However, the total or partial disabling of first-party technical cookies may compromise the use of the Site functionalities reserved for registered users. Conversely, the usability of public content is also possible by disabling cookies completely. Disabling third-party cookies, on the other hand, does not affect navigability in any way, however, some functions related to social networks may not work.
- HOW CAN I DISABLE COOKIES?
Cookies can be disabled through your browser settings. However, if you continue to use the Site without changing your browser settings, it is assumed that you intend to receive all cookies used by the Site and use the relevant functionality.
Cookies can be deactivated/activated or deleted at any time by using the settings of the web browser used by the user. The setting can be managed independently by the user in a specific and detailed manner by accessing the settings of their browser.
To do so, simply consult the information in your browser’s user manual or follow the directions below:
- Internet Explorer
Menu: Tools/Internet Options
Tab ‘Privacy’, then ‘Sites’: under Website Address enter the full address (URL) of the website whose privacy parameters you want to customize:
To authorize the registration of cookies from the website in question on your computer, click Authorize;
To prevent the registration of cookies from the website in question on your computer, click Block.
- Safari
Preferences: Privacy tab and Configure Cookies
- Chrome
Click on the settings icon, located on the browser toolbar: Parameters; Click on View Advanced Parameters.
In the ‘Privacy’ section, click on Content Parameters.
In the “Cookies” section you can change the following parameters: Delete cookies, Block cookies by default, Allow cookies by default, Define exceptions for cookies from certain websites or domains.
- Firefox
Click on Tools and then on Options.
Privacy Tab: under History Settings, select ‘use customized settings’.
Check the ‘accept cookies’ box and click on the exceptions to choose which websites are to be allowed to install cookies on your terminal at all times or not.
- Opera
Preferences > Advanced > Cookies
The cookie preferences allow you to control the way Opera handles cookies. The default setting is to accept all cookies.
Users who have accepted the use of cookies by accessing the Website and passing the initial banner containing the short information notice may change the cookie setting at any time and decide to disable them.
- CAN COOKIES ALSO BE DELETED?
Yes, in this case too, the appropriate browser settings must be configured, following the instructions above (Art. 4).
- HOW DOES THE DATA CONTROLLER USE AND PROCESS COOKIES?
Cookies are used in full compliance with current legislation, which states that such technologies are lawful for certain legitimate purposes, relating to technical storage for the time strictly necessary to transmit the communication or to provide a specific service requested by the user, who may always object to the processing of his or her data related to the storage of cookies by disabling one or more of them.
Data processing is carried out using computer and telematic media by persons authorized and instructed in advance by the Data Controller.
The data are stored in electronic archives in compliance with appropriate security measures to prevent loss of data, possible unlawful or incorrect use and unauthorized access.
- CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY
The Data Controller reserves the right to amend or simply update this Cookie Policy, in whole or in part, also as a result of any changes to the rules governing this matter and protecting your rights. Changes and updates to the Cookie Policy will be binding as soon as they are published. Users are therefore invited to access this section regularly to check its contents.
- CONTACTS
Please send an e-mail to privacy@grimaldialliance.com if you have questions or information on the contents of this cookie policy.
Milan, June 2024
Grimaldi Alliance
