Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy 

This Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Privacy Policy of QubicaAMF Europe S.p.A. (“QubicaAMF”). 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  1. Definitions, type of cookies and application of regulations
  2. Type of cookies used by the Website
  3. List of cookies used by the Website
    1. First-party cookies
    2. Third-party cookies
  4. How to manage or delete cookies and presentation of cookie banner

 

 

  1. Definitions, type of cookies and application of regulations

 

Cookies are small text files that the websites you visit send and record on your computer or mobile device, and are then retransmitted to these websites the next time you visit. It is thanks to cookies that the website remembers your actions and preferences (such as, for example, login details, language chosen, font size, other display settings, etc.) so that they do not need to be reset when you return to that site or browse from one page to another.

Therefore, cookies are used to perform computer authentication, session monitoring and storage of information regarding your activities when you access a website. They may also contain a unique identification code that allows to keep track of your browsing experience within the website for statistical or advertising purposes. Some operations could not be performed without the use of cookies; so, in some cases they are technically essential for the very operation of the website.

For further information about cookies and their general functions, please visit a specialized website such as www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

Cookies may be set directly by the website or web server you are visiting (so-called “First-party” cookies).

 

When browsing a site, you may also receive cookies from websites or web servers other than the one you are visiting (so-called “Third-party” cookies). When you visit a website and a third party other than the manager of the website you are visiting releases a cookie, which is owned by such third party, through such website, such cookie is referred to as a third-party cookie.

 

There are various types of cookies, depending on their characteristics and functions, and they may be stored on your computer for different periods of time: so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed; so-called persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specifically established period of time.

 

In accordance with applicable regulations in force, the use of cookies does not always require your consent. Specifically, Technical cookies, i.e. those used for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by you, may not require such consent. Among the Technical cookies that do not require express consent for their use, applicable regulations in force in Italy include the following:

  • First-party analytical cookies, which are used in an aggregated manner to collect information about the number of users and how they visit the website;
  • Third-party analytical cookies, when tools are adopted that significantly reduce the identification power of cookies by way of data minimization measures, collecting statistical information in aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the site, and the third party does not combine information collected (even if minimized in the manner described above) through cookies with other sources (such as customer records or statistics concerning visits to other websites) to identify users nor forward such information to other third parties;
  • Functionality cookies that allow you to browse depending on several selected criteria (e.g. language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided to you or necessary for authentication and service access.

 

 

However Profiling cookies, i.e. cookies designed to create profiles referring to you and used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences you expressed while surfing the web, require your prior consent. Your consent is also requested for Third-party analytical cookies, when tools are not adopted that reduce the identification power of cookies (not preventing direct identification – i.e., singling out - of the data subject through their use) and the third party cross-checks the information gathered with other information already in its possession.

 

 2. Type of cookies used by the Website

 

The website uses the following types of cookies:

 

  • Technical cookies, strictly necessary for the operation of the website or for allowing you to access the contents and Services requested; this category includes the following types of cookies:
    • Functionality cookies, i.e. used to enable specific website functions and to configure the website depending on your choices (e.g. language), in order to improve your experience. We inform you that if you disable technical and/or functionality cookies, you may not be able to consult the website, or certain services or specific features of the website may not function properly and you may need to change or manually enter certain information or preferences each time you visit the website.
    • Analytical cookies, which allow QubicaAMF to understand how the website is used by you and to identify traffic coming in and out of the website. In this respect, we point out that QubicaAMF uses the Google Analytics service (as provided by Google Inc, hereinafter “Google”) according to the following conditions: measures are taken that reduce the identification power of the cookies by masking portions of the IP (as described at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=i). QubicaAMF has accepted the amendment to data protection with Google through which Google undertakes to use these cookies exclusively for providing the service, to store them separately and not to “enhance” or “cross-check” them with other information that is in its possession. On this matter, we inform you that QubicaAMF has not linked Google Analytics to any additional Google services and that no advertising or data sharing options have been set up with Google. We also remind you that you can install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). For more information about how the third party Google Inc. may use your information, please view the privacy policy at the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en; https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en    
  • Profiling cookies: they record your choices and activity on website to customize our services in a personalized way, conduct advertising to you and offer targeted content in line with the preferences shown during your navigation.

 

Regarding Third-party cookies, third parties are typically data controllers that are independent of QubicaAMF for any data gathered through the cookies they use (and the data they gather is used for their own purposes and according to the terms they set). In some cases and for specific activities, these subjects may act jointly with QubicaAMF as joint data controllers. We make every effort to be able to clarify the role played by these subjects in this Cookie Policy or in the Privacy Policy. So please refer to their personal data processing policies, notices and consent forms (by selecting and deselecting the respective cookies) as detailed in the table below.

 3. List of cookies used by the Website

 

  1. List of Technical cookies

 

Area

Cookie name

Functioning and

purpose

Persistence time

Website

cc_accepted_providers

cc_hide_prompt

These cookies are used to store information about the consent expressed by the user.

6 months

Website

serverid

Used to provide load balancing functionality.

Session

Web Site and Customer Portal

__ac

Collects and stores the information needed to establish whether the user browsing the website is authenticated or not. The user browsing the website without authenticating is not subject to the installation of this cookie.

Session

Customer Forum

 

Foruminfo

Stores users’ authentication data to access the customer forum.

1 month

Customer Portal

 

cookieconsent_dismissed

Keeps track of the consent to cookies, in order to not to re-display the banner during subsequent visits to the website

1 year

Customer Portal

_shibsession_*

Federated identity involves many different sessions that are established between the user and services. Most of these sessions are persisted through cookies, which are associated with additional session information at the provider or application.

Session

Google Analytics

__utma

__utmb

__utmc

__utmz

These four cookies are set by Google Analytics to calculate new and returning visitor statistics.

You can find out more about Google Analytics policies at the following links:

-        https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

-        https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

 

__utma: 2 years

__utmb: 30 minutes

__utmc: 30 minutes

__utmz: 6 months

 

Google Analytics

__utmt

This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.

10 minutes

Google Analytics

_ga

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site analytics reports.

2 years

Google Analytics

_gat

 

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.

10 minutes

Google Analytics

_gid

This cookie is used to group the user behavior together for each user. Structure of its value is very similar to _ga cookie.

24 hours

eShop

LtpaToken2

This cookie name is associated with Lightweight Third-Party Authentication technology used in IBM Websphere and Lotus Domino products. It enables automatic user login over multiple servers. Cookie is encrypted.

Session

eShop

 

WC_ACTIVEPOINTER

This cookie comes from HCL Websphere  and contains the value of the store ID of the session. This value is used to select the appropriate store for a site visitor, if one is not specified on the URL.

Session

eShop

 

 

WC_AUTHENTICATION_ID

HCL WebSphere Commerce uses a secure authentication cookie to manage authentication data. An authentication cookie flows only over SSL. For increased security, it has a timestamp with a signature. This cookie is used to authenticate the user over SSL-connections.

Session

eShop

 

 

WC_CartOrderId_storeId

Active Order Id for the store.

Session

eShop

 

 

WC_CartTotal_orderId

Subtotal of order items (before tax and shipping), number of items, language, currency.

Session

eShop

 

WC_USERACTIVITY_ID

 

This cookie is a user session cookie that flows between the browser and server over both SSL or non-SSL connection. It is used for user identification over non-SSL connections. It contains user session values such as the session login time, and session identifier information such as the user ID and store ID

Session

eShop

JSESSIONID

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

Session

eShop

WC_PERSISTENT

WebSphere Commerce persistent cookie. This cookie is used to persist user ID, language ID, and currency for each store ID visited in the session.

1 month

eShop

WC_SESSION_ESTABLISHED

This cookie is used for dynamic caching. This means that pages already seen by the user will load faster.

Session

Single Sign On

OIDCSESSIONID_*

Cookie related to Open Id to grant single sign on feature.

Session

Single Sign On

OIDCSTATE_*

Cookie related to Open Id to grant single sign on feature.

10 minutes

Single_Sign_On

REFERRER

Cookie used by Active Directory Federation System to store the information about the referrer URL.

Session

Customer Forum

PHPSESSID

The PHPSESSID cookie is a native PHP cookie and allows websites to store session state data.

Session

 

 

 

 

    b. List of Profiling cookies

 

Name of third-

party

Cookie name

Functioning and

purpose

Link to Privacy policy and consent withdrawal

Facebook

_fbp

 

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. Expiration: 3 months.

Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook Ireland Ltd)

Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd that connects the activity of this website to the Facebook advertising network. As a result, if you consent to the use of this cookie / pixel / tag, QubicaAMF will be able to present you online (with retargeting function as part of the creation of the so-called personalized audience) ads/posts/personalized advertisements within the social media to which you have accessed following your previous visit to our website.

 

https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

 

We remind you that you can always choose not to use Facebook cookies for the personalization of ads, by visiting this opt-out page.

Youtube (embedded videos)

YSC


Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Expiration: session.

 

https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Youtube (embedded videos)

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites: it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. Expiration: 6 months.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Youtube (embedded videos) -

Google Doubleclick

test_cookie

Installed when accepting YouTube cookies bydomain .doubleclick.net. Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. Expiration: 1 day.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

 

LinkedIn

li_gc

Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. Expiration: 2 years.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

LinkedIn

lidc

To facilitate data center selection. Expiration: 24 hours.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

LinkedIn

AnalyticsSyncHistory

Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. Expiration: 30 days.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

LinkedIn

UserMatchHistory

LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. Expiration: 30 days.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

LinkedIn

lang

Used both by domains .linkedin.com and .ads.linkedin.com to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. Expiration: session.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

LinkedIn

bcookie

Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. Expiration: 2 years.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

LinkedIn

bscookie

Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. Expiration: 1 year.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

 

 

 

 (Third-party) Social Plugins

Our web pages may contain plugins of the most popular social networks (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) managed by third parties. Such plugins, for example, may be the “Like” button on Facebook or the “Retweet” button on Twitter. If you access one of our web pages with a similar plugin, your Internet browser will connect directly to the third-party servers and the plugin will be shown on your screen through your browser connection. The plugin may inform third party servers about which pages you have visited. If a social network user visits our web pages while logged into his/her account, this information may be associated with the account. If you use the plugin features (for example, by clicking the “Like” button), the information will be associated with your account.

 

(Third-party) Social buttons and widgets

You can also find Social buttons/widgets, i.e. “buttons” representing social network icons (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, etc.), on the website. These “buttons” allow you to visit and interact directly with the social networks with a simple “click”, while you are browsing the website. By clicking on the Social buttons/widgets, the social network acquires the data relating to your visit. Apart from these cases, in which you willingly click to share your browsing data with the chosen social networks, QubicaAMF shall not share any browsing information or data relating to you through its website with social networks accessible through the Social buttons/widgets. For further information, please view the privacy policies of the individual social networks accessed through the website by means of the Social buttons.

 

LinkedIn Insight Tag

The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to our website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. The IP addresses are truncated or hashed (when used for reaching members across devices), and members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days in order to make the data pseudonymous. This remaining pseudonymized data is then deleted within 180 days. Learn more about the LinkedIn Insight Tag. For more information please view Linkedin terms and cookie policy.

 

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Twitter

https://twitter.com/privacy

Linkedin

http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

You Tube and Google Plus

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl

 

4. How to manage or delete cookies and presentation of cookie banner

 

You can authorise, block or delete (in whole or in part) any cookies through the specific settings of your Browser. If you use several devices to view and access the website (e.g., computers, smartphones, tablets, etc.), it is your responsibility to make sure that the browser on each device is adjusted to reflect your preferences on cookies. For further information about cookie management, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

 

By selecting the links below, you can access specific instructions for managing cookies through some of the most popular browsers.

 

 

If you do not use any of the browsers listed above, you can still enter “cookies” in the section of the guide to find out where the function allowing you to manage cookies is located.

You may also exercise your choices regarding third-party cookies by using online platforms such as YourAdChoices

 

In addition to the opt-out features offered by third parties, indicated in the Table in Section 3 of this Cookie Policy, we specify that you can opt-out by visiting the opt-out page of the Network Advertising Initiative.

 

We also remind you that:

you can always revoke the consent given for Profiling Cookies by following the instructions in the "Your Rights as Data Subject" section of our Privacy Policy, or by accessing the cookie preferences center through the Cookie Settings button located in the footer of the website. We remind you that from the cookie preference center, as well as from the cookie banner, you can always revoke the consent given for the activation of all cookies on the website by pressing the "Technical Cookies Only" button.

 

 

 

We would like to point out that the cookie banner present on the website will be re-proposed to you in the following cases:

  • a significant change in one or more conditions of the treatment, for example the "Third parties" connected to Profiling Cookies;
  • it is impossible for us to determine if a technical cookie has already been placed in the device used to access our website (for example if you deleted the cookies using your browser);
  • at least six months have passed since the previous presentation of the cookie banner.