Cookie Policy
This website, owned by PLUSS SRL (PLUSS), controller as per Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”), uses cookies and similar technologies. This notice provides you with information on how cookies are used and how the user can control them.
By using this website (and each website operated by us), you accept the use of cookies (and similar technology) in accordance with this notice. In particular, you accept the use of essential type cookies, analytics and functionality cookies for the purposes described below.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are information saved on the hard disc of the user’s device and are sent by the user’s browser to a Web server and concern the use of the web. So, they allow to recognise the services, the websites which are visited and the options which are chosen while browsing the web. In other words, cookies are small files of letters and numbers which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website, which recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. Cookies are not spontaneously and directly provided by the user, but they track user’s web browsing.
Cookies do many different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your experience. They can also help to ensure that advertisements displayed during the navigation are more relevant to you and your interests, avoiding nuisance adverts or not of your interest or needs.
During a website browsing, the user can receive also cookies which are sent by other websites or servers’ website (so called: “third parties”) where there are some contents (e.g.: images, maps, sounds, specific links to other websites) which are displayed on the website you are browsing.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
a) First party cookies, which are served directly by a website to your computer.
b) Third party cookies, which are served by a third party on behalf of the website. We use third party cookies to help us analyse our websites and their use.
Cookies may be distinguished into these major groups: “technical”, “analytics”, “functional” and “profiling” cookies.
1. Technical cookies are those used exclusively with a view of carrying out the transmission of a communication on an electronic communications network. This is strictly necessary to provide the user with a service requested. They are not used for further purposes and are usually installed directly by the data controller or the website manager. They can be grouped into browsing or session cookies, which allow users to navigate and use a website. These cookies are essential for proper navigation and to use the functions of the site. These cookies do not collect personal information that can be used for marketing purposes, nor do they store the sites visited. The use of these cookies (which are not stored permanently on the user’s device and are automatically deleted when the browser is closed) is strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers (consisting of random numbers generated by the server) necessary to allow safe and efficient exploration of the site. This category of cookies cannot be deactivated.
2. Analytics cookies can be equated to technical cookies insofar as they are used directly by the website manager to collect aggregate information on the number of visitors and the pattern of visits to the website. These cookies, also known as cache cookies, are set by third parties and are used to collect information about how visitors use the site, including the number of visitors, the sites they came from and the pages they visit on our website. We use this information to compile reports and to improve our website; This allows us, for example, to know any errors detected by users and to ensure that they can navigate immediately, to easily find what they are looking for. In general, these cookies remain on the visitor’s computer until they are deleted. Third parties may use this information, also combining it with other information already available to them for purposes other than purely analytical ones, subject to the user’s consent.
3. Functional cookies allow users to navigate as a function of certain pre-determined criteria such as language or services required by the users to improve the quality of service. These cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or geographical location) and provide enhanced, personalised features. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymized and do not track your browsing activity on other websites.
4. Profiling cookies are aimed at creating user’s profiles. They are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences shown by the user during navigation. Users’ prior consent is necessary to install these cookies. These cookies are used to collect information about websites and individual pages visited by users, both on and off our site (which may indicate, for example, users’ interests or other characteristics). These cookies are used to provide advertising and commercial communications that are more relevant to the user’s interests, profiling them. They are also used to limit the number of times an advertisement is shown and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They remain on the user’s computer until they are deleted and serve as a reminder that the website has been visited. In addition, they may indicate whether you have come to our website via an advertising link. They are often cookies set by third parties for their advertising and profiling purposes, also through the cross-referencing of user information that is available in their archives in order to create profiles and send targeted advertising of their own or of third parties. PLUSS does not use profiling cookies.
How do we use cookies?
The list below summarises how we and third parties use cookies on our websites. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
1. Understand the total number of visitors to our websites on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer / Microsoft Edge) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or iOS) used by our visitors;
2. Monitor our websites’ performance, including how visitors navigate our websites, and to improve our websites;
3. Customise and improve user’s on-line experience.
What categories of cookies we use and how to control them
The cookies used can be classified into one of the categories listed in the text below, which shows you how to express your consent, if needed, or rectify it (if already expressed) to accept or to refuse the various types of cookies.
Type of cookie
Essential website cookies (session and navigation)
What cookie does
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our website and use its features. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes or remembering where you have been on the Internet. These cookies are often session-specific, expiring after your visit to the website (session) has ended. They are casual numbers generated by the server and are necessary to allow a safe and effective navigation in the website. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
List of Essential website cookies
Name: _GRECAPTCHA
Provider: Google LLC (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it&fg=1)
Host: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ | https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/
Duration: 6 months
Description of the cookie: it is used to distinguish between people and “bots” (automatic mechanisms of action). It is used to collect user behavior signals (mouse movements, pauses, clicks) to process the risk analysis and issue a score that distinguishes a human from a bot. This is important for the site in order to make valid reports on the use of the site.
Type of cookie
Functional cookies
What cookie does
These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make (such as username, language chosen or region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
List of Functional cookies
This website does not use functional cookies.
Type of cookie
Third parties’ functional and advertising cookies
What cookie does
These cookies are used to provide content on a website through third parties. Data collected by third parties can be used for further purposes, including advertising purposes, with the user’s consent.
List of Thrid parties’ functional and advertising cookies
This website does not use third parties’ functional and advertising cookies.
Type of cookie
Third parties’ analytics and advertising cookies
What cookie does
These cookies, including cache cookies, are set by third parties, and are used to collect information about how visitors use a website, including the number of visitors, the websites that referred them to a website and the pages that they visited on a website. This information is used to compile reports and to help improve websites, for example, by letting know if users find any errors and by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily. Typically, these cookies stay on your computer until you delete them. The third parties may use these cookies for different purposes from analysis, on the condition that the user has given consent.
List of Third parties’ analytics and advertising cookies
This website does not use third parties’ analytics and advertising cookies.
Type of cookie
Advertising and profiling cookies
What cookie does
These cookies are used to collect information on website and pages visited by the users, on websites and on third parties’ websites, which can mean, for example, users’ interests and characteristics. Such cookies are used to provide advertising and commercial communications in line with the user’s profile. They are also used to limit the frequency of advertising activity and understand how effective a marketing campaign is. They are stored on the user’s device until deleted and they remind the visit of the website. Besides, they can give information on how the user has come to a website through an advertising link. They may be shared with other organisations, such as publishers and contractors, which may use them together with other information about how the user uses other websites, for instance detecting interests and behaviour characteristics shared with other groups of users who visit this (and others’) websites.
List of Advertising and profiling cookies
This website does not use third parties’ advertising and profiling cookies.
How to control and delete cookies
The user can freely choose whether to accept or not cookies. In the following, some information on how to make your choice. We remind you that if you remove or delete one or more cookies some functionalities of the website may not work properly and, if the user has expressed consent for profiling the advertisements could be not of interest. If you choose to manage your cookies preferences, our technical tools install a cookie to allow us to meet the user’s preferences. If you remove or delete cookies, your preferences are deleted too; such choices need to be set again.
You can block cookies by using the options provided by your browser (see, for example, “Help”, “Tools” or “Modify”). You can directly disable one or more categories of cookies, but this does not mean that cookies are deleted in your browser. So, you must rectify your choice directly on the browser.
If you want to delete, disable or rectify your choice about cookies installed on the device you use, have access to the settings of your browser or use the pages provided by third parties to do so.
In the following, links to third parties’ pages where you can find information about cookies settings and how to make your choice:
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari
If you use a mobile device, see the user’s guide.
• Apple [guida]
• Android [guida]
Other useful information
The cookie banner will no longer be shown to the user on subsequent visits to the site provided that:
1. PLUSS has not made any substantial changes to its cookie policy
2. Have there been legal provisions that require the re-presentation of the cookie banner
3. At least 6 (six) months have passed since your last visit.
Likewise, the user can change their choices through the features made available by the browser menu, as indicated above or follow the instructions contained in the user manual for their mobile devices. Anyway, this website uses only technical cookies which cannot be disabled by the user.
Information on PLUSS’ cookie policy can be reached through a specific link included in the Privacy Policy of the site (link available in the footer bar of the site pages).
Cookies previously installed
If the user has disabled one or more cookies, we will be able to use information gathered before this action carried out through preferences. Anyway, since now on, we will not use disabled cookies to gather further information.